What's the difference between ceaseless and interminable?

Ceaseless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without pause or end; incessant.
  • (adv.) Without intermission or end.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Europe was never going to be another America or Soviet Union, with one constitution imposing national homogeneity over vast distances, and with people and investment migrating ceaselessly in search of employment.
  • (2) This involves ceaseless snacking of foodstuff with a low glycaemic load, foods that are mainly hummus or things that remind you of hummus or things that are called "hummus" but aren't, in an attempt to appeal to people who only eat hummus (butterbean hummus.
  • (3) He wasn’t the kind of person to whom primetime news specials would dedicate 20 minutes and glorify with quotes from loved ones about his kind spirit or ceaseless determination to overcome an unfair affliction.
  • (4) The existence of a male biological clock, and its ceaseless tick-tocking, is a "cause for concern" that has been cropping up on and off for years now.
  • (5) Nenes' tourist-friendly melodies can seem a world away from Kina's ceaseless quest for social and political change, an artist who implores the world's armies to swap their weapons for musical instruments.
  • (6) The advent of the smartphone, in ceaseless communication with GPS satellites and servers all over the world, and the rapid expansion of “big data” have resulted in staggering volumes of detailed information available to dozens of government agencies with a few keystrokes .
  • (7) It was a devastating salvo amid a ceaseless attack on the BBC in the Murdoch press.
  • (8) "The weather affected Mr Woodhouse," requiring Emma ceaselessly to be attentive to him in order to keep him "tolerably comfortable".
  • (9) The two strategies are intended to be two complementary moments in the ceaseless fight against CHD.
  • (10) appear to us as an original therapy, the "pivot chemotherapy" around which psychotherapy and sociotherapy can be arranged without anarchical and ceaseless changes of neuroleptic compounds and of posology.
  • (11) The capital is famous for art in a way it has never been before, and tourists flow ceaselessly through its galleries.
  • (12) That only serves to increase the ceaseless pressure on reporters to obtain crowd-pleasing, saleable stories.
  • (13) You have achieved all of this while working ceaselessly for the interests of the Scottish people within the United Kingdom.
  • (14) There is a creeping sense that this is turning into a cash cow for the private sector, a get-out-clause for the government ("we've spent all this money, if people can't get jobs despite our help, it's because they are inadequate"), and unemployed people will be left at the bottom, ceaselessly harassed by a totally specious narrative in which their laziness beggars a try-hard administration.
  • (15) In another, it means an endless emphasis on education, and on skills - a ceaseless focus on driving up standards in order to ensure that opportunity for all is real.
  • (16) The writer Umair Haque recently described it as the “ ceaseless flickering hum of low-level emotional violence ”.
  • (17) Sitting constantly in dilapidated cars wrecks their spines, and the ceaseless shouting that goes on in the streets of Cairo destroys their nervous systems,” Khaled Al Khamissi wrote in his 2007 book Taxi , a collection of conversations with 58 of Cairo’s 80,000 taxi drivers.
  • (18) He's ceaseless, y'know, he was on the anti-war march in New York.
  • (19) Hilarious animated gifs won’t make us feel better about mass surveillance Don’t try to turn the ceaseless monitoring of the population with your giant supercomputers into some kind of meme.
  • (20) By any honest reading, though, it’s an indictment of this multinational, one that is utterly undeterred by science in its ceaseless, unblinking quest for profit.

Interminable


Definition:

  • (a.) Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And she had a very good point, because Twine is interminable.
  • (2) Re-examining Sigmund Freud's 'Analysis terminable and interminable' (1937) from the perspective of child analysis highlights the importance of developmental assessment and developmental forces in psychoanalysis.
  • (3) Those innocuous phrases often mask a world of private pain: tearful interviews, angry confrontations, threats of violence, shocking revelations and interminable waiting, waiting, waiting.
  • (4) But financial constraints were arduous and interminable, and he declined the invitation to renew his contract.
  • (5) For one last time, the two candidates came on stage together after weeks of facing off at what often felt like interminable hustings.
  • (6) ET 10 min: Am I the only person who found Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy interminably dull?
  • (7) A botched attempt to bully Rosie Webster into testifying at Fiz's interminable trial led to a thrilling car chase, which involved a displaced traffic cone and speeds of up to 30mph.
  • (8) Oscar planners have sought to shorten the sometimes interminably long show and have tried new ways to present awards in the hope of livening things up.
  • (9) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
  • (10) On the one hand an interminable mud-slinging saga featuring at its centre a scarcely credible pair.
  • (11) But, despite interminable legal proceedings, their efforts have so far come to nothing, partly because studies commissioned by the UK government have concluded that a resettlement programme on what is officially known as the British Indian Ocean Territory was just not feasible.
  • (12) The debate over regional anesthesia and general anesthesia with respect to relative risk in different classes of patients will probably be interminable until studies addressing the issue begin to specify the treatment protocols more carefully and to control as many variables as possible.
  • (13) Radiohead's interminable promotion of their patchy debut, Pablo Honey, would have tried anyone's patience.
  • (14) At first we all thought it was a reaction to the near-fatal road accident of his younger daughter Kate - he and Mari had watched over her as she lay in what seemed an interminable coma.
  • (15) The updates on the Kickstarter page are a catalogue of little disasters and triumphs: broken moulds, patchy GPS reception, interminable Chinese holidays and, finally, huge stacks of boxes ready to ship.
  • (16) The question is raised as to whether the analysis of the generation of sound by a laser beam moving over a water surface at the sound speed c for an interminable time period requires consideration of nonlinear effects.
  • (17) The committee said successive federation chairmen have become "enmired in interminable internecine power-struggles that would not have been out of place in a medieval court".
  • (18) It certainly seemed that way, and it was gardening, after all, that got him through those seemingly interminable years on Robben Island.
  • (19) There was no statistically significant difference between the ICD users and nonusers as stratified by SAECG classification regardless of whether or not the interminate studies were included or excluded from the analysis.
  • (20) Freud pondered the nature of termination as well as incomplete, completed, periodic, and interminable analysis.