What's the difference between inexhaustible and unfailing?

Inexhaustible


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
  • (2) It is, said publisher Little, Brown, "a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible marvel of human perception and rage against the dying of the light will stand among Iain Banks' greatest work".
  • (3) They are being used for a multitude of purposes and the almost inexhaustible varieties of molecular architecture that macromolecular materials can possess provides the possibility for a myriad of applications.
  • (4) On the ground, however, the continuing Russian support is clear, as the separatists appear to have an inexhaustible supply of Grad missiles and other weaponry.
  • (5) Her energy was remarkable; she had an inexhaustible supply of hatred, expended daily, yet burning fiercely for years and years.
  • (6) All those incidents drew on a well of goodwill that had once seemed inexhaustible and now leave Simms in a tricky position as he attempts to reconcile responsibilities to Farah, to Rupp, to Project Oregon and to his business.
  • (7) This paper is a summary of our work with a new drug delivery system: a totally implantable, continuous infusion pump, with a self-contained inexhaustible power source.
  • (8) George suggests that “waste” is actually a misnomer since human faeces is an inexhaustible source of valuable nutrients.
  • (9) The capacity of human beings to think up new ways to kill one another proved inexhaustible, as did our capacity to exempt from mercy those who look different or pray to a different God.
  • (10) The search of cases of insanity among the rebels, the idea that their acts could only express some kind of phrenopathic disorder opens the debate on the very existence of some morbid types such as Falret's and Pottier's "reasoning, inexhaustible and proselyte lunatics", the "many characters with fanciful projects, including reformists of the human race, and various utopists" that Morel includes in his classification of hereditary insanity, Serieux's and Capgras "idealists concerned with justice" found amongst delusions related to altruistic claims, Dide's and Guiraud's "idealistic passions, social reformers, anarchists" appear to us as very outdated classifications, on the border of the psychiatric field.
  • (11) Fuentes's intellectual leadership is inexhaustible.
  • (12) I had faith in those who believed in the inexhaustible potential of people power.
  • (13) Their resources appear at first to be inexhaustible; a long-term trend of depletion is concealed by short-term fluctuations; small numbers of powerful people advance their interests by damaging those of everyone else; short-term profits trump long-term survival.
  • (14) The availability of an inexhaustible and easily reproducible source of such antibodies, which can be harvested from cell culture supernatants of permanent hybrid cell lines and animal ascites fluids, promises to advance considerably our knowledge of biology at the cellular, subcellular, and molecular levels.
  • (15) These findings raise the possibility that EPO bound to endocardial cells might utilize H2O2 generated either by overlying phagocytes or endogenous cardiac metabolism along with the virtually inexhaustible supply of Br- from flowing blood to fuel HOBr-mediated cell damage.
  • (16) There are places to eat and drink on some of the islands and an almost inexhaustible supply of locations to explore.
  • (17) His almost inexhaustible vitality, combined with a passionate belief in humanity, socialism and people's inherent common sense, enabled him time to engage in local politics: for a five-year period he was a Labour councillor.
  • (18) The result, the government says, will be an inexhaustible supply of cheap, clean energy that will also ease the country's $183bn a year dependence on Middle East oil.
  • (19) The connection between the intimate and the public lay at the heart of her work, an apparently inexhaustible stream of novels, short stories and essays.
  • (20) Original, imaginative, inexhaustible and right on top of the story.

Unfailing


Definition:

  • (a.) Not failing; not liable to fail; inexhaustible; certain; sure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What's impressive is Cole's unfailing good cheer in the face of so much unpleasantness.
  • (2) The brothers were both good boys, the neighbours recalled, unfailing attendees of the Baptist Sunday school.
  • (3) Was he not doing something to keep you off?” He went on: “He seemed to catch you with some good right hands early in the fight, did you feel his power?” Then, finally, he added: “So you’re saying you thought you were up in the fight and that’s why you didn’t step up the pace in the 11th and 12th rounds.” Pacquiao seemed flummoxed by the direct line of questioning, and even this usually unfailingly polite competitor betrayed his annoyance by the end of the interview.
  • (4) "I would also like to pay tribute to Jo's family and to Greg, who continue to be unfailing in their support to me and my team at what is an incredibly difficult and painful time for them."
  • (5) We meet in a plush Mayfair hotel suite in the early evening, by which time he is sipping a cup of Starbuck's coffee, struggling to keep his eyes open but still unfailingly polite and professional.
  • (6) On the campaign trail, Trump unfailingly tarred Clinton as compromised by, and enmeshed with, Wall Street and its mega banks.
  • (7) You have been unfailingly generous and supportive," she added in She phoned her local paper, the Northamptonshire Telegraph , on Monday morning to break the news, with a formal announcement to follow at 10am.
  • (8) His unfailing courtesy, evident in generous remarks about Jeremy Corbyn in his dramatic Commons speech on Wednesday night, echoes the older Benn style most of the time, though Tony could be vicious about colleagues in ways foreign to his gentler son.
  • (9) Weerasethakul, a charming, unfailingly polite and very neatly dressed 45 year old, says he doesn’t mind in the least that his delicately composed, subtly atmospheric films should be exhibited in such an environment; it is, he says “a celebration, a big party”.
  • (10) A right hemihepatectomy unfailingly results in the devitalization of the left side of the liver.
  • (11) Attention is called to this particular rearrangement for its clinical as well as fundamental implications, as its presence in blood forming cells unfailingly hearalds a fast, fatal course of evolution.
  • (12) That enthusiasm, given and received, continued in the spirit of the 70,000 other "Games makers" , of all backgrounds and from far and wide, who quickly became the human face of these Olympics, welcoming and marshalling with unfailing good humour, proud just to be involved.
  • (13) Control of infection in the surgical intensive care unit demands unfailing attention to three distinct areas: a) The bacteria responsible may be endogenous or exogenous.
  • (14) Two failed valves, one apparently unfailed but defective valve, and one unused valve, were examined by scanning electron microscopy and metallographic section.
  • (15) People came from near and far to pay tribute to the widow of the 40th president, who was respected for her grace, strength and unfailing loyalty to her husband during this two terms in office and his final struggles with Alzheimer’s disease.
  • (16) Clearly, neither of these men is unfailingly consistent or selfless in his actions, and there is much hypocrisy in public life.
  • (17) He had an unfailing eye and ear for talent, and not only Frost but Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, Herbert Kretzmer and Michael Crawford owed him a great deal.
  • (18) Unfailingly, Labour officials take care to remind reporters that her hobby is kick-boxing.
  • (19) Authority tastes unfailingly bitter here, with its forced labour and trigger-happy policemen.
  • (20) Sarkozy’s strategy of presenting himself as a victim is likely to comfort his unfailing support base inside his own Les Républicains party.

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