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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
Jack Zipes
Together
Book
Simple
Myth
Legend
Tried
Anecdote
About
Something
Tale
Most
Particularly
Talk
Genre
Call
Fairytale
Tall
Understand
Any
Irresistible
Order
Stories
Really
Show
Origin
Recent
I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
Jackee Harry
Sometimes
Try
Bad
Irresistible
Online, there is an irresistible social currency to being a user who has thousands of followers, who starts memes, who comes up with an idea that is turned into a movie. But I wonder how comfortable we should be with this arrangement.
Jenna Wortham
Starts
Memes
Thousands
Followers
Online
Idea
Comfortable
Arrangement
How
Up
Wonder
Currency
Irresistible
Being
Movie
Social
Turned
Should
User
Who
Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
John Mott
Leadership
International Relations
Relations
Simply
Highly
Demand
Demanded
Qualitative
Irresistible
Realm
International
Fostering
Right
Here
I was born at Rotten Row in Glasgow and brought up in Loch Lomond near a small place called Gartocharn. And it's a bit like anyone: where you're brought up, you have an irresistible attraction to that place; it defines who you are.
Kevin Macdonald
You
Bit
Defines
Born
Brought
Small
Glasgow
Like
Attraction
Up
Irresistible
Where
Anyone
Place
Who
Rotten
Near
Row
Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.
Lisa Gansky
Our
Immediate
Sharing
Devices
Make
Provide
Truly
Mobile
Irresistible
Convenient
Information
Things
Necessary
An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.
Marquis de Lafayette
Truth
Me
Man
Liberty
Passion
Enthusiasm
Lover
Conviction
Believe
Would
Religious
Religious Man
Prophecy
Induce
Ideas
Always
Irresistible
Loved
Decided
Which
Innate
Career
I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.
Mathieu Amalric
Myself
Films
Meeting
Alive
Only
Directors
Feel
Because
Irresistible
Act
Keep
Need
It was Test cricket as it should be played, when the irresistible force in Allan Donald met the immovable object in Mike Atherton at Trent Bridge in 1998. And I was happy to watch from the best seat in the house - at the other end.
Nasser Hussain
Best
Happy
Met
Other
Cricket
Immovable
Object
House
Force
Test
End
Donald
Irresistible
Mike
Should
Bridge
Seat
Played
Watch
There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.
Patrick MacGill
Journey
Travel
Wine
Sweet
Something
Charming
Up
Lips
Irresistible
Being
Moment
Traveller
Raised
Thirsty
Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Technology
World
Nothing
Earth
Characteristic
Exactly
Invading
Invasion
More
Like
Welcomes
Tide
Surely
Times
Than
Modern
Human
Irresistible
Modern Times
Whether
Places
Forms
Social
Mechanism
Activity
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.'
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Me
Reality
Interior
Nothing
Back
Characteristic
Some
Seems
More
Demand
Economy
Go
However
Familiar
Than
Childhood
Irresistible
Far
Unique
Appetite
Necessary
Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He's irresistible to me. I mean, seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.
Rob Delaney
Me
Seriously
Pay
He
Attention
Comedic
Attractive
Well
Him
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Target
Very
Irresistible
Want
Romney
Mean
Less
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?
Robert Gottlieb
Work
Good
People
Determination
Pure
Mysteries
Dancers
Find
Charm
Perform
Supposedly
Blind
Knowledgeable
How
Ballet
Irresistible
Just
Eternal
Plain
Then
Many
You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.
Robert J. Sawyer
You
Black
Made
Fall
Gone
Universe
Finality
Black Hole
Writers
Irresistible
Hole
I have been interested in pirates since I was about 8 years old. The idea of people deciding, sometimes at a moment's notice, to throw over the rules and restrictions of society - it was just irresistible.
Robert Kurson
People
Sometimes
Old
Society
Rules
About
Restrictions
Throw
Idea
Over
Since
Been
Years
Pirates
Irresistible
Just
Deciding
Interested
Notice
Moment
Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.
Ryan Holmes
Facebook
Stream
Social Media
Rarely
Instance
Limitations
Irrelevant
Irresistible
Social
Page
Your
Engineered
Media
I find all food irresistible. I have friends who live in the mountains in France. One of them sells vegetables, and to walk through her garden when everything is bursting out - it's impossible not to eat something.
Simon McBurney
Food
Garden
Vegetables
Impossible
Walk
Mountains
Live
Everything
France
Out
Find
Eat
Something
Through
Friends
Sells
Irresistible
Bursting
Them
Who
Her
From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect.
Stacy Schiff
Great
Respect
People
Genius
Speak
Political
Language
Will
Every
Ancient
Ability
Able
Charm
He
Puts
Cleopatra
Testimony
Source
Essentially
Irresistible
Flattery
Turn
Really
Languages
Many
Including
Her
Two subsequent incidents of import established CNN: the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, which CNN was the only network to cover as it happened, and the 1991 Gulf War, which CNN chronicled round the clock from a proximity as irresistible as it was alarming, bomb blasts and gunfire lighting up TV screens from coast to coast.
Steve Erickson
War
Space
TV
Gulf
Gulf War
Network
Only
Blast
Lighting
Import
Cover
Clock
Up
Proximity
Subsequent
Irresistible
Established
Space Shuttle
Screens
Happened
Which
Explosion
Coast
Incidents
Round
Bomb
Challenger
Alarming
Shuttle
Two
Although we had been led to believe our mission was suicidal, Russia's intrigue was irresistible. Almost twice the size of Australia, it spans 11 time zones from the Baltic to the Pacific.
Tim Cope
Time
Believe
Our
Intrigue
Russia
Had
Almost
Mission
Although
Been
Led
Baltic
Australia
Irresistible
Size
Pacific
Spans
Twice
Zone
Suicidal
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
Walter Jon Williams
Compulsion
Writer
Never
Irresistible
Being
Choice
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Church
State
Unconstitutional
Most
Partnership
Impose
Covert
Controls
Irresistible
You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
Xenophon
Strength
You
Victory
Side
Neither
Give
Attacks
Generally
Know
Greatest
Nor
Gods
Irresistible
Which
Assistance
Numbers
Resolution
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