What's the difference between ineluctable and irresistible?

Ineluctable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is an ineluctable consequence of improving the computer models of climate change.
  • (2) And in this ineluctable journey, we must wish the "quiet man" godspeed.
  • (3) Based on a review of 13 personal cases an attempt is made to isolate a specific laryngeal lesion: extensive papilloma durum of larynx of almost ineluctable malignant transformation.
  • (4) So you have an ineluctable tendency for regulators to regulate more and more, and for banks to get bigger and bigger.
  • (5) A Rip Van Winkle from 1979 would be astonished that earnings have all but evaporated from British politics, as if pay were as ineluctable as the weather.
  • (6) We can also make a number of other forecasts based on those, and other ineluctable realities about the cost of components in computing.
  • (7) It is the author's conclusion that these and other related formulations lead ineluctably to a concept of mental structure that necessarily incorporates elements of both "deficit" and "drive-defense" models and the paper that follows attempts to develop and explicate that conclusion by means of a detailed examination of relevant parts of Fairbairn's writings.
  • (8) This idea has penetrated deep into the collective consciousness: the idea that poverty is somehow inevitable, ineluctable, a given condition for a significant proportion of humanity.
  • (9) When you sit at the center of the world and are unlikely to ever lack for the basic materials of self-sufficiency, the idea of blind, gnawing resentment – let alone of feeding that resentment even with irrational aims – is ineluctably beyond your ken.
  • (10) Replacement of living poliomyelitis vaccine by inactivated one is ineluctable as complications though exceptional will become less and less accepted, and the surveillance of poliovirus circulation will be facilitated.
  • (11) The rapid rise of the life sciences cannot continue its present course into the twenty-first century without meeting ineluctable limits to expansion.
  • (12) These changes are perhaps not ineluctably associated with aging; they might result from pathological processes that have gone unnoticed.
  • (13) The excision necessary for reasons of comfort and hygiene could not be envisaged unless the ineluctable vast palatine breach opened could be immediately repaired by surgery, any prosthetic solution being excluded.
  • (14) It's a problem that affects at least half-a-dozen European nations and is most obvious in the European Union itself, yet I wonder if this seemingly ineluctable estrangement really has to go all the way in Britain.
  • (15) Greece, ineluctably, is being drawn into a new dance of uncertainty, a rollercoaster ride of high-pressure politics.
  • (16) Thus, genetic determinism is no longer ineluctable.
  • (17) The close and ineluctable links between anatomy and physical anthropology are explored.
  • (18) The author suggests ways of theorizing, and eventually interpreting, the 'breach' in the relationship in terms of the absent, decentred subject, the Desire of the Other, the inherent contingency of our most primitive identifications, and the ineluctable violence and alienation of human interdependency.
  • (19) Whatever one's view of Apple as a manufacturer of digital equipment, as an author of operating systems and designer of software, as a multinational corporation, as a lifestyle statement or as a quasi-religious cult, it remains a matter of ineluctable fact that the introduction of the iPhone just over a year ago changed the smartphone market for ever.
  • (20) Quite how put out you are by that ineluctable truth is a matter of personal taste.

Irresistible


Definition:

  • (a.) That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction.

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.