What's the difference between interminable and unending?

Interminable


Definition:

  • (a.) Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And she had a very good point, because Twine is interminable.
  • (2) Re-examining Sigmund Freud's 'Analysis terminable and interminable' (1937) from the perspective of child analysis highlights the importance of developmental assessment and developmental forces in psychoanalysis.
  • (3) Those innocuous phrases often mask a world of private pain: tearful interviews, angry confrontations, threats of violence, shocking revelations and interminable waiting, waiting, waiting.
  • (4) But financial constraints were arduous and interminable, and he declined the invitation to renew his contract.
  • (5) For one last time, the two candidates came on stage together after weeks of facing off at what often felt like interminable hustings.
  • (6) ET 10 min: Am I the only person who found Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy interminably dull?
  • (7) A botched attempt to bully Rosie Webster into testifying at Fiz's interminable trial led to a thrilling car chase, which involved a displaced traffic cone and speeds of up to 30mph.
  • (8) Oscar planners have sought to shorten the sometimes interminably long show and have tried new ways to present awards in the hope of livening things up.
  • (9) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
  • (10) On the one hand an interminable mud-slinging saga featuring at its centre a scarcely credible pair.
  • (11) But, despite interminable legal proceedings, their efforts have so far come to nothing, partly because studies commissioned by the UK government have concluded that a resettlement programme on what is officially known as the British Indian Ocean Territory was just not feasible.
  • (12) The debate over regional anesthesia and general anesthesia with respect to relative risk in different classes of patients will probably be interminable until studies addressing the issue begin to specify the treatment protocols more carefully and to control as many variables as possible.
  • (13) Radiohead's interminable promotion of their patchy debut, Pablo Honey, would have tried anyone's patience.
  • (14) At first we all thought it was a reaction to the near-fatal road accident of his younger daughter Kate - he and Mari had watched over her as she lay in what seemed an interminable coma.
  • (15) The updates on the Kickstarter page are a catalogue of little disasters and triumphs: broken moulds, patchy GPS reception, interminable Chinese holidays and, finally, huge stacks of boxes ready to ship.
  • (16) The question is raised as to whether the analysis of the generation of sound by a laser beam moving over a water surface at the sound speed c for an interminable time period requires consideration of nonlinear effects.
  • (17) The committee said successive federation chairmen have become "enmired in interminable internecine power-struggles that would not have been out of place in a medieval court".
  • (18) It certainly seemed that way, and it was gardening, after all, that got him through those seemingly interminable years on Robben Island.
  • (19) There was no statistically significant difference between the ICD users and nonusers as stratified by SAECG classification regardless of whether or not the interminate studies were included or excluded from the analysis.
  • (20) Freud pondered the nature of termination as well as incomplete, completed, periodic, and interminable analysis.

Unending


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
  • (2) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
  • (3) Special care in the management of so-called 'chronic Lyme disease' is crucial lest the clinician prescribes prolonged or unending courses of antibiotics for such noninfectious problems.
  • (4) Many wonder if Ai will tire of the unending tussle and move abroad.
  • (5) I, of course, told myself at the time that it was because there was something foul about the scene unfolding in my living room; something toxifying in this soft-world parody of the worst, most irredeemable yet persistent aspect of human nature: the unending horror of judgment and mass execution.
  • (6) Johnson’s complaint states that since he had become chair and chief executive, Martinez “has subjected Johnson and other employees to an unending stream of racist and sexist comments as well as unwanted touching and other unlawful conduct”.
  • (7) The Pentagon produced a theory to suit: the Long War doctrine postulating unending conflict against ill-defined but ubiquitous enemies.
  • (8) But so often, open worlds are built from architectural filler – bland unending landscapes and cardboard box tenements.
  • (9) The core themes expressed include the unending attempt to put the patient in touch with the surroundings; trying to stay ahead of the patient; a decline in the reciprocal relationship; narrowing of the caregiver's horizons; and a search for personal connectedness.
  • (10) He said his early resignation would undermine the legitimacy of his successors, creating a recipe for unending chaos.
  • (11) Yet for the families of the mostly young people who died, there has been unending grief, and a traumatic legal ordeal leaving them with questions still unanswered.
  • (12) Thus may the long night of pain and violence, with the support of all Colombians, become an unending day of concord, justice, fraternity and love... so that there may be lasting peace.” Farc leaders had hoped the pope would agree to meet with negotiators from both sides during his three-day visit to Cuba but the Vatican denied that a meeting would take place.
  • (13) This is all part of what is supposed to be a clash of civilisations, unending, implacable, irremediable.
  • (14) After NYT Editorial board editor David Firestone posted the NYT's editorial on Twitter and heralded the speech as "a momentous turning point, making clear an unending state of war is unsustainable," I asked him : "Will it be 'momentous' if it's not followed up with decisive and prompt action?"
  • (15) Updated at 2.11am GMT 2.03am GMT We're an hour into a possibly unending event and there is yet to be a wedding.
  • (16) The tax would mean graduates faced "an unending liability", he says, and "the absolute killer" was how European Union students would pay for their degrees under such a system.
  • (17) In the unending struggle to keep up with new technologies and services, libraries have had to support increasing demands while they receive a decreasing share of the health care dollar.
  • (18) But it is clear that tackling the crisis in Iraq cannot ignore the unending and de-stabilising war next door.
  • (19) With that and the unending energy crisis in mind, the Pakistan government has been wooing multinationals at a series of oil and gas exploration conferences in London, Houston and Calgary last week.
  • (20) The basic idea of New Labour was that the party had been held back by our tendency to let once sensible policy positions become unquestionable and unending ideological commitments... Too often, the Labour party had made a fetish of state action when the means should have been whatever it took to get the ends achieved.