(v. t.) To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.
(v. t.) To excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by physical or mental charms.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(2) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(3) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(4) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
(5) The goal must be to prevent or reverse this fascinating disease, utilizing specific therapy designed from a knowledge of the cause and pathogenesis of the disease.
(6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(7) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
(8) Sometimes in the other team’s half, sometimes in front of his own box, sometimes as the last man.” Die Zeit singles out Bayern’s veteran midfielder Schweinsteiger for praise: “In this historic, dramatic and fascinating victory over Argentina , Schweinsteiger was the boss on the pitch.
(9) Her history is fascinating – every time you think she has finished telling you about her childhood, she embarks on another chapter.
(10) This kind of audience investment is one of the reasons why James Baker's 30 Days to Space , at the Edinburgh 2010 forest fringe, proved so fascinating.
(11) "It's fascinating that 2010 will be bookended by two controversial political books, one about the latter years of the Government [Observer writer Andrew Rawnsley's The End of the Party], and one by the man that delivered New Labour to the country in the 1990s."
(12) The fascinating pathogenetic, clinical, biological and therapeutic resemblances between the present syndrome and the post-infarctual syndrome of Dressler and Johnson's post-pericardiotomic syndrome are pointed out and it is suggested that complications of medical nature already described as being secondary to the installation of pacemakers, such as endocarditis and pericarditis, should be looked at from an autoimmune type of pathogenetic viewpoint.
(13) A study of gonadotrophin production in horses and donkeys bearing hybrid foals has yielded fascinating results about the immunology of pregnancy.
(14) Central to the whole project was a patient fascination with religion, represented, in particular, in his attempt to understand the revolutionary power of puritanism.
(15) The weeks ahead in Australia will likely be fascinating, exciting, distressing, emotional, anticipatory, and, at times, challenging .
(16) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
(17) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
(18) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
(19) The last several decades have seen a marked increase in our knowledge base regarding these fascinating envenomations and intoxications.
(20) The fascination of American and British scholars with each other's health care systems is a case study of the risks and benefits of the comparative approach.
Irresistibly
Definition:
(adv.) In an irrestible manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
(2) With climate risks high and profit margins low, Australian farms do not hold irresistible allure for the Chinese.
(3) If that attitude could sometimes frustrate senior editors’ desire to raise standards – if it could, in the end, be blamed for the calamitous failure to spot the misdeeds of Johann Hari – it was also the only thing that kept the paper from falling apart completely: an irresistibly romantic underdog spirit, a sense that since this plainly wasn’t a viable business, it had to be a cause.
(4) Evan Arnold’s performance as Leonard was irresistible.
(5) Before what is bound to be a gossip-fuelled party conference season in which Lib Dem flirtation with Labour (and vice versa) will be added to the mix of plotting, irresistible visions of the future home into view.
(6) This was the afternoon everything finally clicked, when Spurs’ supply-line was irresistible and the rivals’ goalkeeper so obliging that the flurry of errors almost served to devalue the England striker’s contribution.
(7) The push for new measures, tightening financial and economic curbs on Iran and targeting its links with Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon, would be as much about domestic US politics as international policy as battle-lines are drawn with the much-weakened Obama administration ahead of the 2016 presidential election • The pressure inside Iran to replace Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s west-friendly foreign minister, and other members of Tehran’s negotiating team as part of a larger effort to undermine Rouhani by his conservative opponents could become irresistible.
(8) Liverpool were irresistible for a golden period after the interval, which climaxed in Sadio Mané, the £30m signing from Southampton, fizzing home their fourth goal.
(9) I think what we’re seeing in Australia is very much the focus on acquiring premium, highest quality, high-value brands that will enable a very significant mark-up or profit with the wealthiest element of Chinese society.” It is not that the Australian farms hold irresistible allure for the Chinese or come without hitches, as KPMG points out.
(10) The difficulty is the temptation of the data honeypot, the digital footprint that makes it irresistibly cheap, easy and effective for a dystopian Big Brother to watch people without them knowing it, as became chillingly clear with the revelations by former National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden in Guardian Australia and elsewhere.
(11) He has always been very ambitious, however – when asked whose career he would most like to emulate he says he'd like to be "an amalgamation of every great artist who's inspired me, from Daniel Day-Lewis to Tom Hanks" – and it was inevitable the lure of LA would prove irresistible.
(12) At the same time this is an unusual elite footballer with unusual elite gifts, one whose outline can often be obscured by that irresistible charisma.
(13) The initial stories are irresistibly provocative, the backlashes – which often involve celebrity names – swift and easy to cover, and the articles get clicks.
(14) The task is herculean, the mission quasi-impossible, but the challenge absolutely irresistible for any ambitious architect.
(15) Last season was a tough one for him at Napoli, Walter Gargano and David López providing a level of competition in midfield that sometimes edged out a player who had been irresistible the previous year.
(16) "It will be my first solo tour and I see it as a chance to meet audiences all over the country and talk about the only consistent thread in my working life - the irresistible urge to do something completely different," he said as he launched the tour at the London book fair .
(17) They irresistibly attract the attention of the police and the television cameras.
(18) Anyone who dotes on football warms to Arsenal, but you can celebrate the stylishness without assuming they are an irresistible force.
(19) If we are going to keep juries we need to trust them to judge cases on the evidence, however irresistible the temptation to consult readily available sources of information.
(20) Leaving "options open" is seductive in politics, but had things continued to drift into the pre-election spring of 2015, the ambiguity would have encouraged a Europhobic campaign of irresistible force, and all options but capitulation would have disappeared.