What's the difference between amour and lover?

Amour


Definition:

  • (n.) Love; affection.
  • (n.) Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors carried out studies on a group of analgetic preparations (morphine, lydol, thylidine, pentazocine and analgine) by the method of D Amour and Smith, using thermic painful stimulation.
  • (2) Tolmetin sodium produced a significant inhibition of the pain-like response induced by electrical stimulation of tooth pulp of dogs, but showed no effect when the methods of Haffner and D'Amour-Smith were applied to mice.
  • (3) After a couple of years of winners ( The Tree of Life , Amour ) from directors with both name recognition and modest commercial prospects, we're due another winner that comes with three different types of subtitles, screened that morning of the tight deadline and the accidental hangover.
  • (4) [Amour] is such a wonderful, marvellous, extraordinary gift,” she said in 2012.
  • (5) Best foreign-language film The award goes to Amour.
  • (6) The in vivo antinociceptive activity of HP 736 was found to be comparable to morphine in the modified Haffner's tail clip assay in mice and the D'Amour-Smith tail flick assay in rats.
  • (7) Or perhaps we could focus on the relationship of Leia and Solo, now married, and there could be a heart-rendingly poignant study of their elderly existence together, rather like Michael Haneke's Amour , but set in space.
  • (8) She became an emblem of the French New Wave, thanks to her role in Hiroshima Mon Amour, before returning to the Paris stage in the 1970s.
  • (9) "Continuing from Andrew Fletcher's comforting reassurance that you could be El-Hadji Diouf," writes the elegantly-monickered Leticia L'Amour, "just think: you could also be Paul Burrell, Michael Jackson, One True Voice, Gary Glitter, Glenn Roeder, Geri Halliwell's dog, a Stoke City fan, an estate agent, allergic to cheese, Liam Gallagher's anger management counsellor, Liam Gallagher..." By God, she's right.
  • (10) The acclaim for Riva and Amour are exceptional in an industry that has always preferred its mainstream stars to be fresh of face, lithe of figure and delivering their lines in English.
  • (11) Irrespective of which will win, four of them can be categorised, as austere arthouse ( Amour ), the higher whimsy ( Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Life of Pi ), and customary US family angst ( Silver Linings Playbook ).
  • (12) Little effect was seen when the D'Amour-Smith was used.
  • (13) Amour is stark and sometimes brutal, as you would expect from a director who specialises in emotional extremity.
  • (14) With the D'Amour-Smith method, only NSP had a greater effect in SART-stress mice than in normal mice.
  • (15) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
  • (16) The 65th Cannes film festival drew to a close with the director Michael Haneke being awarded the Palme d'Or for Amour.
  • (17) Amour, which stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as an elderly couple struggling to cope after one of them suffers a series of strokes, won universal praise on its premiere at the 65th annual festival last week, and its win was widely thought to be something of a certainty.
  • (18) He listened impassively as I told him how the climax of Amour had astounded me.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amour Famed in France for her discretion and reserve, Riva, who never married and had no children, kept her final illness private.
  • (20) I hope it's Amour , a film that is Haneke's most personal and tender, and yet bristles with threat and fear.

Lover


Definition:

  • (n.) One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.
  • (n.) A friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country.
  • (n.) One who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music.
  • (n.) Alt. of Lovery

Example Sentences:

  • (1) McNear was in New York that summer after her junior year and for nearly two months they were lovers in Manhattan.
  • (2) Music lovers have rightly championed the risk-taking and diversity of 6 Music.
  • (3) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
  • (4) Concerns have also been raised over a case in Texas in which a man is facing execution despite an admission by the judge and prosecutor in his trial that they were lovers.
  • (5) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
  • (6) Every music lover wants a personal connection to the music they love.
  • (7) They might be to memorialise a lover or child, remember a journey, a period of time in prison or a religious conversion.
  • (8) The white hotel has 144 rooms for beach lovers, surfers, divers, trail runners, yogis and spa-toners.
  • (9) But Olney wanted to be an artist and he set off for Paris, where he found himself a garret in which he could make portraits and a new life among friends, lovers and acquaintances that included the black American writer and civil rights pioneer James Baldwin, WH Auden and, distantly, Edith Piaf, whom he saw sing Je ne Regrette Rien for the first time at the Olympia theatre.
  • (10) And when nothing seems off-limits online – not to mention the intimate moments of any celebrity under the sun, or the private photos Jennifer Lawrence makes for her lover’s eyes only – does the proper fleshy privacy of sex with a partner lose its glamour?
  • (11) The programme alleges that the Home Office ignored evidence presented by Ellis's solicitor Victor Mischon that she had an accomplice when she shot her lover David Blakely, an upper-class racing driver, outside the Magdala pub in Hampstead, north London, on Easter Sunday 1955.
  • (12) Life events were assessed by reports on the numbers of lovers, friends, and acquaintances who were diagnosed with AIDS or had died of AIDS and by scores on a checklist of 24 more general serious stressor events.
  • (13) Above all, through the offices of his medium and lover, Mary Parish, he entered into elaborate relations both with the fairy world and with God and His Angels.
  • (14) Cinema chains in the UK and abroad fear relaxation of the window in case film lovers decide to save their pennies and see new releases at home rather than travelling to their nearest multiplex.
  • (15) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
  • (16) He was a giant of a man in every way imaginable and his demise is not only a tremendous loss to the world at large and to lovers of great art, but very much on a human level.
  • (17) The book also featured Lola Montez, the fabulous beauty of the age, and her lover Ludwig, the mad King of Bavaria.
  • (18) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
  • (19) The bluefin tuna, which has been endangered for several years and has the misfortune to be prized by Japanese sushi lovers, has suffered a catastrophic decline in stocks in the Northern Pacific Ocean, of more than 96%, according to research published on Wednesday.
  • (20) Now, leaving aside that Assia Wevill (Hughes's lover, who killed herself and their daughter in 1969) and Hughes were never married, it is a safe bet that Hughes himself was a lot more "bothered" by the deaths of his wife, lover and child than someone who never knew them, no hashtag.

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