Mr. Cornejo is an impulsive force of nature, an embodiment of fairy wit and an irresistible source of inventive glee.
Nonetheless, in the current political climate, critics found the image of a government grappling in an amateur fashion with modish new media an irresistible source of mirth.
And turning up at college with a bit more experience under your belt than a few A-levels will make you an irresistible source of fascination to greener, doe-eyed contemporaries.
For the same reasons, science fiction writers and Hollywood filmmakers have found the notion irresistible as a source of terror (the "Terminator" movies, "12 Monkeys") or comfort ("Back to the Future," three times).
Many University of Chicago alumni who go on to publish fiction such as Philip Roth, AM'55, Saul Bellow, X'39, Andrew Greeley, AM'61, PhD'62, Sara Paretsky, AM'69, MBA'77, PhD'77, and Georg Mann, AB'35 find the University irresistible as a source of setting, conflict, or in some situations, character.
Anger arises when mounting irritation, annoyance, and frustration burst into an irresistible impulse to respond in a harmful manner to the perceived source of those feelings.
Before he can dedicate the town's new flagpole, President Taft smells something irresistible and races around town, eating everything in sight, in search of the source of the tantalizing aroma.
But does our almost irresistible urge to rank ourselves against others based on any available data serve as a source of inspiration?
From the start, the teenager was a source of anxiety and an object of longing -- the vision of a terrifying, amoral future and the image of an irrecoverably innocent past -- as well as an irresistible target for marketers of entertainment.
If we are going to keep juries we need to trust them to judge cases on the evidence, however irresistible the temptation to consult readily available sources of information.
Passing mention is made of a "brutal, lurid" first marriage, but those interested in Mr. Roth's relationships with women will have to await Blake Bailey's authorized biography or else succumb to the irresponsible, irresistible vice of treating novels as source material.
