What's the difference between importunable and insupportable?
Importunable
Definition:
(a.) Heavy; insupportable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carr claimed that Kammerer's sexual importuning had become threatening, and in Riverside Park on August 13 1944, he defended himself with his boy scout knife, fatally stabbing Kammerer twice in the chest.
(2) The proceedings of animal body waste salvage plants are-as you know-connected with intense smell importunities of the immediate environment.
(3) He played in Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache at the Arts theatre and went on tour as Gerald Popkiss in Ben Travers's Rookery Nook, before giving an irresistible Roland Maule, the importunate playwright from Uckfield, in Coward's Present Laughter, at the Vaudeville in 1965.
(4) In his recent book, Marriage of Inconvenience , Robert Brownell claims that Effie was something of an adventurer, encouraged by her importunate family to marry Ruskin to forestall her father’s bankruptcy.
(5) Had I not been so concerned by this importune turn of events, I might have wondered why two of my oldest friends hadn't told me they were together or invited me to their wedding, and so I resolved to work humbly for Herbert for the next 12 years.
(6) This paper discusses three cases of importunate fracture, with skin breakdown and exposed fracture fragments, and their treatment with tobramycin beads (and in two cases, external fixateurs).
(7) If we take the view that German aggression above all else started the first world war, we may conclude the US should take a hard line against contemporary Chinese importuning.
(8) When she was four, her father had to relocate to Pennsylvania after importuning young male members of his staff.
(9) Neither are the tense years of the cold war, when Finland pursued a delicate balancing act between the importunate demands of its giant neighbour and its natural attachment to the west.
Insupportable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some children appear to cope with the experience of parental suicide without serious consequences; for a few there was relief from an insupportable situation.
(2) A neonatal total artificial heart (TAH), used as a bridging device, can offer circulatory support for patients suffering from otherwise insupportable and inoperable congenital cardiac defects.
(3) It is argued that, under a pay-as-you-go system, future generations are committed to burdens without their consent; that claims are not contractually guaranteed; that early entrants reap windfalls gains; that successive cohorts are tempted to provide insupportably high benefit levels; and, finally, that fluctuations leave future generations at unacceptable risk.
(4) But the food was beyond bad: insupportable, in David's view, even allowing for the shortages; she was overcome with a sense of "embattled rage that we should be asked – and should accept – the endurance of such cooking".
(5) It's unacceptable, it's inappropriate and it's insupportable from every perspective and Alan knows that.
(6) Evaluates the the act frequency approach (AFA), noting that retrospective self-reports rather than behavioral acts are studied; act context and meaning are not considered; the AFA self-report inventories are incompletely developed and are psychometrically unsound; the AFA claim of absolute measurement of dispositions is insupportable; many of the self-report act statements used are technically unacceptable or conceptually unwarranted; the research agenda of the AFA primarily involves only "internal analyses" of self-report "act" inventories and indices and proposes the further creation of "act" inventories to index thousands of conceptually unorderable dispositions.
(7) His confinement in his father's house became insupportable.
(8) Africa’s first woman bishop, the Right Reverend Ellinah Wamukoya, also a member of the ACEN, said the fact the burden of climate change would fall disproportionately on the world’s women was morally insupportable.
(9) The situation in the UK (as in Italy) continues to be insupportable, yet somewhat like "serfs", we've seemed resigned to suffering it, as if no serious alternative existed.
(10) For Obama to attack Iran would be morally insupportable: it would be a rupture of faith.
(11) The assumption that community health will thereby be improved remains questionable even in developed countries, and is insupportable in developing countries.
(12) Meanwhile, the costs of a very elaborate new system mount insupportably the fewer newspapers, magazines and websites join.
(13) However, it is insupportable that financial pressures on local councils should be the excuse for people with dementia not being able to access vital care and support.” Vicky McDermott, chair of the Care & Support Alliance : “The government has made the right decision to delay the introduction of the care cap.
(14) Let us not forget that for many people, the practice of liberty is an insupportable challenge.
(15) Kennedy recognized that he would be in an "insupportable position if this becomes [Khrushchev's] proposal", both because the Turkish missiles were useless and were being withdrawn anyway, and because "it's gonna – to any man at the United Nations or any other rational man, it will look like a very fair trade."