What's the difference between unbearable and untolerable?

Unbearable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This unbearable situation leads to panic and auto-sensory deprivation.
  • (2) Thus tissue and cellular damage may not be ischemic in nature but rather mediated by other mechanisms such as unbearable mechanical stress.
  • (3) Otherwise it’s unbearable.” She glances over my shoulder again: “I’m going to have to change position.
  • (4) He also thanked nearly everyone who had been involved in the trial: his attorneys, his family, everyone who testified “with dignity” about their “unbearable” hardships.
  • (5) Often the prospect of going to court for victims is unbearable; they feel they have already been judged and they don’t want to go through the abuse again.
  • (6) For the patients with unbearable paroxystic pain, when medical treatment failed, the destruction of deafferented dorsal horns at the level of avulsion (Nashold procedure) could produce pain relief.
  • (7) When facing the abortion question the following are necessary: more complete information on the consequences of indiscriminate sexual relations; a wider spread knowledge of contraceptive practices; the institution of special aid to unmarried mothers so as to prevent abortion remaining the only possible solution for an unbearable situation and which hides a serious psychological risk.
  • (8) Anyone expecting the public to suddenly turn on Ailes in a way it hasn’t before is likely to be disappointed, Tyndall said, adding that part of Fox News’s classic-TV appeal is a re-creation of the permissive atmosphere that has historically made life unbearable for women in entertainment.
  • (9) Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight."
  • (10) And which, in the case of Scarlett and MacKeown, grasps at any semblance of 'otherness', because the truth (it could easily happen to your child) is too unbearable to contemplate.
  • (11) The results are interpreted to suggest that persons who commit homicide-suicide are acting out a three-party rescue fantasy in an attempt to resolve unbearable stress.
  • (12) Almost 800 have taken the first step to taking their lives by becoming members of Dignitas, and 34 men and women, who feel their suffering has become unbearable, are ready to travel to Zurich and take a lethal drug overdose.
  • (13) Their songs ranged from the almost unbearably poignant ("Hand in Glove") to the frankly vulnerable ("How Soon is Now").
  • (14) Without medication the pain is unbearable: during some of my worst attacks, I've been known to bang my head on the wall.
  • (15) I have tickets for the knock-out rounds and it would be unbearable if Portugal were already on a plane home.
  • (16) Pessimists predict a human tide that will put an unbearable burden on food, jobs, schools, housing and healthcare.
  • (17) Watched by a quiet, oddly tense crowd of onlookers, the couple looked almost unbearably young and vulnerable – as if, one observer joked, on their way to the guillotine.
  • (18) He wanted to openly condemn this unbearable situation.
  • (19) The second half roared on towards its conclusion, the tension close to unbearable, when he announced that he would have to nip out once more as his earlier exit had clearly been the reason for Jô’s goal.
  • (20) After the election, when interest rates are rising and public services are falling apart, Labour would find governing impossible and unbearable if they had signed up to Osborne's killer cuts.

Untolerable


Definition:

  • (a.) Intolerable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During 30 days of evaluation, the aneurysm grew larger and his cervical pain became untolerable.
  • (2) 3 patients suffered untolerable headache during isosorbide dinitrate phase and had to terminate treatment after first day only.
  • (3) They were operated on radically, except one case whose status seemed to be untolerable to the operation.
  • (4) A 36-year-old female was referred as aortitis c AR with atypical coarctation of aorta (obstruction of both subclavian arteries and long stenosis of lt. common carotid artery) and complained of untolerable angina repeatedly in the state of NYHA IV.
  • (5) The untolerant mice were never detectably chimeric.
  • (6) The induced damages of the prostate and surrounding tissue is not severe enough to be untolerable.
  • (7) The result of pain relief is classified into 4 grades based on Hitchcock's criteria; grade 1: complete pain relief, grade 2: almost complete pain relief with slight residual pain, grade 3: persisting pain, but tolerable, grade 4: persisting pain, untolerable.
  • (8) To prevent withdrawal from the therapy as a result of untolerable adverse effects, the daily dose was set at 1 X 10(6) units, and rIL2 was given to 12 patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
  • (9) Conservative septoplastic techniques through Cottle's approach produce an untolerably high rate of recurrence or insufficient restoration of the function of the nose.
  • (10) Final ALS of untolerated animals contained antibodies against 7 to 8 fractions, whereas that of experimental group tolerated with serum and Hb was free of antibodies against serum protein, hemoglobin included.

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