What's the difference between incessant and unceasing?

Incessant


Definition:

  • (a.) Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
  • (2) Yes, I’m aware that’s confusing, and no, I don’t really know how employers are going to get their heads round this either.” I watch colleagues battle to keep up with the incessant changes and I feel frustrated that this is taking us all away from the core business of providing inspiring lessons for students.
  • (3) But it rained incessantly and the family had to keep indoors.
  • (4) Incessantly progressive loss of renal function culminated in irreversible renal failure 7 weeks after initial manifestations of renal insufficiency.
  • (5) Writing about Tulsa in The Photobook Volume 1 , authors Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that the "incessant focus on the sleazy aspect of the lives portrayed, to the exclusion of almost anything else – whether photographed from the 'inside' or not – raises concerns about exploitation and drawing the viewer into a prurient, voyeuristic relationship with the work."
  • (6) Incessant hand to mouth movements are often noted as part of the movement disorder of the hands in the Rett syndrome (RS).
  • (7) A patient with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome presented with incessant orthodromic atrioventricular tachycardia following initiation of procainamide therapy.
  • (8) This 35-year-old male homosexual, who had no psychiatric history, suddenly developed in November 1988 the following psychiatric signs: he started to walk back and forth incessantly, he had the impression that he was the subject of the conversations of the passers-by, that all the posters and notices refer to him, and that he was God.
  • (9) However, for incessant supraventricular mechanisms, catheter or surgical ablative techniques are recommended to eliminate long-term drug administration.
  • (10) This report details a patient with incessant fascicular tachycardia.
  • (11) Two patients died, one due to incessant ventricular tachycardia and one of a cause unrelated to device.
  • (12) Thirteen out of 14 patients with the incessant or undetermined type of AAT were symptomatic, in contrast to only two of seven patients with the repetitive type.
  • (13) The problem in deciding what Orwell would write about in 2013 is that Orwell the man was incessantly, in 21st century newspeak, off-message.
  • (14) A succession of storms, some very high tides and incessant downpours this winter have brought into stark relief Britain's exposure to the weather.
  • (15) An incessant growth of kallikrein content was detected in DUH patients, whereas their prekallikrein levels were much lower than in the controls.
  • (16) One baby had an incessant reciprocating tachycardia and subsequently required digoxin for heart failure.
  • (17) Three of these 16 patients developed electrically provoked incessant VT during treatment with propafenone without other evidence of toxicity.
  • (18) Staying in London, as gridlock demands we must, Chelsea hope that the captain of Spain's Olympic football team will be so enamoured by the incessant rain and relentless whinging about traffic that he will want to set up permanent home in the capital.
  • (19) The reason for this savagery is that, contrary to their incessant claims that their long-term plan is working, five years of Osbornomics has been an outright failure, even in its own terms.
  • (20) But there’s also generic observational material (how British people avoid speaking to strangers on trains, and so on), and I soon found Hess’s incessant burbling and tittering around largely trivial subjects beginning to wash over me.

Unceasing


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During 5 days of reflex training the rats of both strains retained a high level of defecation until the end of the test that pointed at the emotional strain unceasing in spite of the automatization of the reflex.
  • (2) We focus on the need to carefully manage the unceasing competition between separative and dissipative transport in all high resolution methods.
  • (3) It is noteworthy that the Ry amplitude began to decrease markedly from the seventh year after the initiation of this study, whereas the Rx amplitude showed a gradual and unceasing decline through the 10-year period.
  • (4) Apart from the novels, plays, film scripts, sitcoms and magazine articles that flowed unceasingly from his vintage Adler typewriter (he hated new technology), he also wrote a twice-weekly newspaper column, beginning in the Daily Mirror in 1970, and from 1988 for the Daily Mail, until the paper announced his retirement last May.
  • (5) Over these years, they have suffered unceasing harassment by the Israeli army and settlers ...
  • (6) Diagnosis of the syndrome is based upon deep unceasing pain reported at the postero-lateral shoulder, atrophy of the supra- and infraspinatus muscles, and impaired shoulder external rotation and a lidocaine test.
  • (7) We need more of Liu Xiaobo’s spirit, his unceasing fight for democracy, here in Hong Kong.” The vigil ended at Beijing’s main presence in Hong Kong, an imposing skyscraper topped with a black glass sphere, where a makeshift memorial had been built.
  • (8) Perhaps in the early 60s, when music seemed to gush out of him in an unceasing torrent, songs so dazzling in their perfection that the Beach Boys became enshrined in the public imagination as the living embodiment of the perfect Californian youth they sang about, despite a lot of physical evidence to the contrary – the almost unnecessarily handsome Dennis Wilson was hidden behind the drums, which left audiences looking at his two chubby brothers Carl and Brian, his balding cousin Mike Love and the diminutive, jug-eared guitarist Al Jardine.
  • (9) Uber’s seemingly unceasing expansion across the world has finally had the brakes applied as the ride-sharing company plans a deal to sell its Chinese operation to local rival Didi Chuxing, according to Bloomberg News .
  • (10) And so begins 13 hilarious minutes of unceasing sexual innuendo – “Forgive me for coming in the back way”, “You know I've been EVERYwhere”, etc – terrible acting, bizarre accents, blatant snobbery, awful lighting and a parrot riding a tricycle.
  • (11) Hospitals are treating record numbers of patients as they face unprecedented and "unceasing demand" for their services, NHS leaders warned on Friday.
  • (12) And like many top predators, lions face an unceasing conflict with humans: they are killed as pests, for trophies, and even for sham medicine.
  • (13) At the same time he wants to write enough of a final chapter to take him well beyond the court cases that have wrapped up in London.” Folkenflik said the audacious move was also a bid by Murdoch to redefine his image after the hacking scandal, to demonstrate to the world he was “as relentless and as close to immortal as you can be.” “He wants it to show that his empire is larger than ever, that he’s undaunted and that people think of him unceasingly growing the family empire and giving James and Lachlan more vineyards to play in,” he said.
  • (14) However this very propice situation is jeopardized by the process of agricultural development and the unceasing trespassing of the reservation boundaries.
  • (15) The government bullies women unceasingly; universal credit will make more women financially dependent on men.
  • (16) Patients positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may resort to hibernation or unceasing hyperactivity to eject overpainful representations and affects.
  • (17) One might think that such unceasing bloodshed and the shock of Newtown would lead to not just national outcry but reform of America's lax gun laws.
  • (18) "They face unceasing demands that are unsatisfiable, they are working in a distressing context, which can be life-threatening and they are filled with a core fear of personal disintegration," he says.
  • (19) Consciousness derives from a neural process that requires unceasing metabolic support, and probably involves only a select population of neocortical elements.
  • (20) Riyadh must endure unceasing bad publicity about cases such as that of the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi , sentenced to 1,000 lashes, and the recent street beheading of a Burmese woman.