His "Dream" speech, though deeply rooted in his faith, appealed not to the authority of religion but to the common language, irresistible to all, or almost all, of justice and moral order and practical benefit.
But as I wrote, it was almost like the force of Austen's language was irresistible, so I found myself using Austenesque words like "besmirch"; I think at the same time her humour also crept into the tone.
These global conflicts introduced military terms into everyday discussion, and when, immediately thereafter, game theory developed in the academic world – in large part at Princeton, with Morgenstern, von Neumann, John Nash *50, Harold Kuhn *50, and a host of others – the language was irresistible, and "strategy" gradually became part of everyday thinking.
Countering the online health gurus is especially difficult when they offer the irresistible cocktail of medical language muddled with a much more pleasing aesthetic than medicine, far from the clinical world of linoleum and antiseptic, a better place where patients' conditions are diagnosed with metaphors ("adrenal fatigue") and treated with poetry (holy basil, bone broth, Himalayan sea salt).
AFRICAN RAP -- Africa gives hip-hop's endless hybridization plenty to work with: irresistible dance grooves, multiple languages, tenacious traditional music, and social conditions tough enough to provoke plenty of material.
While raised, Western concerns about the decline in the development of democracy in Russia were muted after a period in which Mr. Bush heightened expectations with soaring language on the irresistible lure of freedom and democracy.
He's been translated into every language and remains irresistible - Pushkin read him in French; Verdi read him in Italian and produced versions of Othello and Falstaff that now seem difficult to separate from the originals.
In other words, irresistible.
Although Handel continued to write and present operas, the trend towards English-language productions became irresistible as the decade ended.
Language is a useless but irresistible tool, and Beckett's monologists spend long passages reducing speech to its physical mechanics.
Professor Blake, author of The Body Language - the Meaning of Modern Sport and the Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter, thinks darker forces are at work.
