Abecedarian : Indubitably (?)

November 21, 2014

"Indubitably."

"Indubitably?" Adrianne repeated the word, to make sure she'd heard it correctly. "Since when do you use words like indubitably?"

—Red Like Crimson by Janice Thompson, 2012

November 1, 2014

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From Cognitive Science and Psychoanalysis by Kenneth Mark Colby and Robert J. Stoller, 2013.

October 28, 2014

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"The world is indubitably one if you look at it in one way, but as indubitably is it many, if you look at in another."

—Mark Twain and Human Nature by Tom Quirk, 2013

October 1, 2012

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"We would pass a joint and suddenly everything about this world and our place in it seemed hilarious. Simple observations became impossibly profound. Indubitably so."*
—John Grogan, The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir (2009)

September 6, 2012

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Can you guess the subject of this sentence?

Forever wonderful, unexplainahle, it is yet intensely, most indubitably real.
—Littell's Living Age, 1853

Here's the answer in context (in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)

Life is, indeed, the 'perennial standing miracle of the universe.' ... This fact if being alive is not to be denied or questioned; if all else were doubtful, this is certain—here we are! conscious living beings, with an actual destiny in the present and in the future, the issues and the mystery whereof our deepest intuitions cannot fathom.

August 14, 2012

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This screen shot, showing the "Tunnel of Love, Indubitably," is from the extraordinarily brilliant comedy series Arrested Development.

August 9, 2012

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"YOU are indubitably the most important person you will ever meet in your world, in your lifetime. No one nor anything will ever have as much impact or influence on YOU as YOU."*
—Jeanne Dolphus Cotton, Getting It Together: You, Life and Living (1995)

Photo by Matthew Allard.

July 28, 2012

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"Facts are indubitably facts, and wish-thinking has no place in science."*
—The Rotarian (Jan. 1938)

July 21, 2012

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"Iceland is indubitably one of the most interesting spots on the face of the globe."*
—The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review (1862)

July 14, 2012

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"Consciousness manifests itself indubitably in man and therefore, glimpsed in this one flash of light, it reveals itself as having a cosmic extension and consequently as being aureoled by limitless prolongations in space and time."*
—Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom, The Ascension Factor (1988)

July 8, 2012

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"It is indubitably true that 'God is.'"*
—The Historical Constitution of St. Bonaventure's Philosophy