Posted on 11/11/2010 4:29:38 AM PST by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
ineluctable \in-ih-LUK-tuh-bul\ : adjective
Not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable
Example sentences:
Even the best athletes have to contend with the ineluctable fact that they will grow older and must someday face opponents who are younger, faster, and stronger.
"The breadth and sweep of Ms. Mearns's dancing is extraordinary here, and she has an apparently instinctive sense of how to imprint a movement momentarily on the eye, even as it seems part of an ineluctable flow."
-- From an article by Roslyn Sulcas in the New York Times, September 27, 2010
Etymology:
Like drama, wrestling was popular in ancient Greece and Rome. "Wrestler," in Latin, is "luctator," and "to wrestle" is "luctari." "Luctari" also has extended senses -- "to struggle," "to strive," or "to contend." "Eluctari" joined "e-" ("ex-") with "luctari," forming a verb meaning "to struggle clear of." "Ineluctabilis" brought in the negative prefix "in-" to form an adjective describing something that cannot be escaped or avoided. English speakers borrowed the word as "ineluctable" around 1623. Another word that has its roots in "luctari" is "reluctant." "Reluctari" means "to struggle against" -- and someone who is "reluctant" resists or holds back.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
(With any luck the bull won't . . .)
But even now they are getting new office makeovers. How can we trim the rolls? A+ for you!
You worked hard for that A!
Alas, Christine O’Donnell, this time at least, was not ineluctable, just unelectable.
the rolls have to be trimmed in FUTURE budgets. there isn’t a federal budget in place, currently; they are operating on a continuing resolution, if i am not mistaken. money allocated in prior years budgets has to be spent or it will be lost. no bureaucracy is going to abdicate cash. it is just never going to happen.
Very true and an A for you. It would have helped her case to have been elected to something/anything before she tried a Senate run.
you know, i agree. i have very mixed feelings about how that whole thing played out. yes, it’s good to be rid of castle, and i agreed with COD that it was no sure thing that he would have won. but i do not think that karl rove is a traitor and i don’t hate him. he’s a pragmatist and he was right about her. now i do fault him for failing to embrace her the minute she won the primary. the time to say all the stuff he said about her would have been AFTER she lost the general, and not after she just won the primary. i have a real problem with the unappeasability faction in our party. Another example of this is Michele Bachmann vs. Jeb Hensarling for the leadership spot. Jeb is a glow in the dark conservative and absolutely brilliant, and he has more seniority than Michele thus is more entitled to that position. I love her, think she’s great, articulate etc. but it would be wrong and not good for the party, to exalt her over Jeb for that spot. There’s plenty of room for leaders, she doesn’t need that exact position to serve and be high profile. the libs want to exploit a division in the republican party. we should not give them that chance and Michele should withdraw her name for that spot.
Harry Reid’s favorite hot, cute, lean lib, Kirsten Gillebrand, won in a walk in old Noo Yawk. And, in the House, Barney Frank, who is an openly stupid democrat (is there a bi-uncle tale or tranny-auntie saga that explains him?) also won with ease. There really should be a cell unit housing Barney, Chris Dodd, and Andrew Cuomo, for all the damage they did to our financial markets with their Titanic stewardship of Fannie, Freddie, and HUD.
As for our Chosen One, it looks like Obama has finally managed to open the clue bin, late and oblivious, as usual. Will his new call be “Unite, my friends of both parties,” or will he continue his strict partisanship? One thing is for sure—he will do nothing but lie. Clean and articulate though he might be, I don’t think he really will sing “Kumbaya” with the republicans. It’s far more likely that the tune I call be one of discordance, perhaps “One-Note Samba,” with that note being socialism.
Obama’s prospects in the next election are not that great. Oh, he will try to entice a bull market by printing money, and put a lot of people to work for the government to lower the unemployment rate, but it won’t help. Sarah Palin is going to be a real Mama Grizzly, one who has just discovered her freshly-eaten cub, I’ll betcha.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
My money’s on Western Civ. A for you.
Right on. Right on.
He is shining the light on spooky dude. I hope other media are taking note. A+ for you.
What if it turns out that Obama was inelectable? What? Ineluctable? Oh. Nevermind.
Now, now. No worries mate! The Washington is claiming many others were also inluctable on Nov 1 - and all those were proved wrong on Nov 3.
“Is it me, or does Rahm look half reptile in this picture?”
No, it’s not you, he does look reptilian. I just think you were a bit too charitable because he looks at least 85% reptile in the picture.
Nice!
Like one that sucks eggs? Yup.
i wish i could claim that michele read my post and did the right thing, but apparently she did it last night, unbeknownst to me. LMAO!
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