What's the difference between ambrosial and balmy?

Ambrosial


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.
  • (a.) Divinely excellent or beautiful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Berry meringue roulade Meringue, thick cream and berries – it's an ambrosial combination.
  • (2) Mario Ambrosi (@marioambrosi) How does targeting more affluent pensioners to pay more square with encouraging people to save for their care in old age?
  • (3) Mario Ambrosi is head of public affairs for Anchor .
  • (4) Social work will need to know where its duty of care is and where it is not.” Mario Ambrosi , head of communication and public affairs, Anchor: “I think a major issue is working out how much different groups of staff need to know about the various elements of the act.
  • (5) It means offering reasonable, workable efficient ways and criteria to be admitted into a labour market, which incidentally requires migrants.” Ambrosi was speaking before it was revealed that EU member states remain far short of ambitions to resettle refugees from Greece or Italy, the frontline states in the EU’s migration crisis.
  • (6) Panellists Jim Thomas , programme head, Skills for Care Clara Swinson , director for social care, Department of Health Mario Ambrosi , head of communication and public affairs, Anchor Patrick Hall , practice development manager (policy), the Social Care Institute for Excellence (Scie) Kate Metcalf , professional practice adviser, the College of Social Work Peter Feldon , BASW member and freelance Care Act consultant Simon Bottery , director of policy at Independent Age Discussion commissioned and controlled by the Guardian, hosted to a brief agreed with Skills for Care.
  • (7) Ambrosi contends that intense political focus on arrivals overshadows the data on departures, leading to a skewed impression of overall migrant numbers.
  • (8) Eugenio Ambrosi, Europe director at the UN-backed International Organisation for Migration , warned that – while he welcomed the Malta agreement – trying to stop the flow via “repressive measures” would not work.

Balmy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.
  • (a.) Producing balm.
  • (a.) Full of barm or froth; in a ferment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
  • (2) While UK sales in October and November were affected by the balmy autumn, Bason said it only affected winter coats and knitwear, which make up a third of Primark’s product range so overall sales continued to rise.
  • (3) So it’s understandable that the Australian prime minister couldn’t quite take in what the US president said to him as journalists filed into the American purpose-built venue for bilateral meetings and other summit business on a balmy Tuesday evening at Apec in Manila.
  • (4) It was a balmy California evening as Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine strolled along the Los Angeles beachfront.
  • (5) A balmy Saturday morning finds most of the gardens well tended and the plain, postwar semis in a good state of repair.
  • (6) Ronald Reagan’s Air Force One plane formed the backdrop as the candidates debated in front of a rapt audience, with hundreds of journalists in an adjacent media centre and “spin room” and a balmy sun setting over the valley.
  • (7) Spring is a great time to visit – Chengdu is basking in a balmy 20C, and everywhere trees are in blossom.
  • (8) So on a balmy day in Edinburgh in late May 1988, as I shuttled between the university library and anti-apartheid meetings, came the news that my mother, who had raised me on her own, had died.
  • (9) But while the south and east of Britain experienced balmy temperatures, places further north and east remained wet.
  • (10) After weeks of balmy weather that have left clothes retailers with huge stocks of unsold coats, boots and jumpers , John Lewis said shoppers were finally buying winter clothes.
  • (11) We’ve got a lot of young players in the squad and their lack of fear can be a good thing.” If Rashford’s right-foot volley in the third minute was the highlight of a balmy Wearside evening, his all-round game generally proved impressive.
  • (12) Cairo is a city built for sunny days and balmy nights; come winter the wind can lash with a ferocious bite.
  • (13) Before the long balmy era we have enjoyed over the past 10,000 years, climate was often much more tempestuous.
  • (14) New York was a balmy 54f (12.2c) early Monday but was expected to be 11f (-11.6c) by Tuesday morning.
  • (15) It is a balmy Saturday afternoon in the suburbs of Singapore.
  • (16) As I exit Prince's LA Xanadu and head out into the balmy California night, I ask myself how much he actually cares about being a superstar again.
  • (17) On a balmy August evening, the man goes out and picks some mushrooms.
  • (18) Analysts have been concerned that fashion chains will suffer, having been forced to offer discounts to clear stocks of coats and jumpers during a balmy autumn.
  • (19) But for at least the next few days while he visits the former heartland of regional revolution, the US president should be able to bask in an unusually balmy political climate of a US president in Latin America.
  • (20) It is a measure of Wales’s dominance that the scoreline flattered Russia on a balmy night in Toulouse.

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