What's the difference between amazing and inspiring?

Amazing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amaze
  • (a.) Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The technique is facilitated by an amazingly low tendency to bleeding.
  • (2) Before the offer for the jungle came in she was meant to be presenting the Plus Size Awards this week, an event supporting plus-size people who are doing amazing things but are overlooked by the mainstream.
  • (3) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (4) I was amazed by the sheer scale of the operation, easily mistaken for a full military assault on a kraken.
  • (5) It represents a rapid deterioration in relations since Monday when, previewing the Rotherham game, Karanka spoke of his “amazing” relationship with Steve Gibson, Boro’s owner, and everyone at the club.
  • (6) I opened my eyes and my mouth wide, which made everyone in the audience think I was amazed at what I was seeing.
  • (7) "Siri [the iPhone voice recognition assistant] reminds me of the woman who's told a dog plays chess and is asked, 'Isn't that amazing?'"
  • (8) White House plan to hire more border agents raises vetting fear, ex-senior official says Read more “But the fact is when the world changed, you have to change too, and so I do think there are amazing new opportunities now because he’s bringing nationalism to the fore, he’s bringing it into the mainstream, he’s asking these existential questions like: are we a nation?
  • (9) It was an amazing save,” said Mauricio Pochettino , the Tottenham manager.
  • (10) "Amazingly my mobile number was on it, so they were inquiring where they should deliver the parcel," they added.
  • (11) "The player [Suárez] is amazing and I love his quality, commitment and ambition to play," said Mourinho.
  • (12) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (13) We recruit our colleagues for their enthusiasm, for delivering amazing customer service, and we invest in their development to ensure they can reach their full potential.
  • (14) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.
  • (15) Some were amazingly naïve about culture as well as finance: "Can you read Spanish?"
  • (16) I would remind ourselves that peace will offer amazing achievements.
  • (17) AlphaGo: beating humans is one thing but to really succeed AI must work with them Read more The amazing thing is how quickly it’s happening.
  • (18) So, of course he is going to suffer, it doesn’t matter if he has an amazing job.” The prince said the event was an opportunity to show that even “unflappable” sporting personalities could experience mental health problems.
  • (19) Ultimately, however, the opportunity for personal development is provided, not by Twitter, but by the amazing and unique people who use it.
  • (20) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."

Inspiring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inspire
  • (a.) Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Airway closure (CV), functional residual capacity (FRC) and the distribution of inspired gas (nitrogen washout delay percentage, NWOD %) and arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) was measured by standard electrodes in eight extremely obese patients before and after weight loss (mean weights 142 and 94 kg, respectively) following intestinal shunt operation.
  • (2) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
  • (3) Increase in activity of pulmonary stretch receptors causes inhibition of inspiration and bronchodilation.
  • (4) The duration of the individual crackles became shorter and the timing of the crackles shifted toward the end of inspiration.
  • (5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
  • (6) Transcutaneous oxygen measurements (TcpO2) have been shown to be an index of tissue perfusion and it has been suggested that the main haemodynamic variable influencing tissue perfusion is cardiac output, assuming that inspired oxygen remains constant.
  • (7) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
  • (8) I was inspired by and, in this article, refer to videotapes of consultations and therapy sessions shown at an international conference on constructivism and family therapy in Sulitjelma, Norway, June 1988, and to written material from the Tromsø group (Tom Andersen and Anna M. Flåm), the Milan team (Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin), and the Galveston team (Harlene Anderson and Harold Goolishian).
  • (9) Under cyclic uptake conditions alveolar gases follow an oscillating time course, because gas concentrations tend to increase during inspiration and to decrease during expiration.
  • (10) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
  • (11) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
  • (12) During inspiration, the velocity was greater and the shape of the flow profile throughout diastole tended to be flat.
  • (13) "It's inspiring for young sportspeople everywhere to have something like this happening in our backyard.
  • (14) Increased ventilatory excursions with constant inspired CO2 levels did not cause any elevation of IOT, but a minimal compensatory drop in IOT below resting values occurred when increased ventilatory excursions were discontinued.
  • (15) As an index of inhomogeneous distribution of inspired air, the mean dilution number (the ratio of the first to zero moments) was calculated from each multibreath nitrogen washout during spontaneous breathing.
  • (16) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
  • (17) The effects of the level of oxygenation on the respiratory response to heat exposure have been studied in conscious cats during normoxia, severe or mild hypocapnic hypoxia [inspired O2 fraction (FIO2) = 0.11 or 0.13], or hyperoxia.
  • (18) We therefore measured HCVR, HVR, and ventilation for three breaths preceding and eight breaths following three totally obstructed inspirations in eight normal subjects during NREM sleep.
  • (19) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  • (20) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.