irresistible

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You’d be hard-pressed to find a more irresistible character on television than Cirie Fields on the 50th edition of “Survivor,” or one more discussed than “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Taylor Frankie Paul.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

As Odysseus and his ship were sailing by the Sirens, he knew the Sirens’ song would be irresistible and — if he didn’t resist its allure — fatal.

From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026

But the image of Bernstein as a wealthy, fatuously do-gooding liberal was irresistible to many.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Rachel Khong’s irresistible puzzle of a second novel suggests it is a mistake to think we can force complex, nature-nurture identities in a chosen direction.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

He would spend hours on end in his room, calculating the strategic possibilities of his novel weapon until he succeeded in putting together a manual of startling instructional clarity and an irresistible power of conviction.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez