What's the difference between amour and paramour?

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.

Paramour


Definition:

  • (n.) A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.
  • (n.) Love; gallantry.
  • (adv.) Alt. of Paramours

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The victims were usually illegitimate preschoolers; the assailants, usually the mothers or their paramours, had backgrounds of assaultiveness and social deviance and killed in impulsive rage.
  • (2) She would tramp to the village phone box and wait for some ringing and then quiz me about eating greens and clean handkerchiefs and comprehensively diss my dad, who had left home to "find himself" – in the arms of a local paramour.
  • (3) Together, the books sold 15m copies in 40 countries and spawned two Hollywood films starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget and Colin Firth and Hugh Grant as her warring paramours.
  • (4) There has been furious speculation over who might play the kinky business magnate and his paramour, though casting details have stubbornly refused to emerge.
  • (5) Avatar 2, 3 and 4 will also feature returning stars Sam Worthington, as disabled soldier turned swashbuckling Na'avi rebel Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana as his alien paramour Neytiri.
  • (6) Harry Treadaway’s Victor Frankenstein buckled under the weight of his monstrous creations, succumbing to his morphine addiction and losing his undead paramour Lily.
  • (7) Publisher Jonathan Cape would only reveal that the novel "explores a different phase in Bridget's life", refusing to say if Bridget's perennial paramours, Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver, would make an appearance in the story, or if Bridget would have aged in real time, making her at least in her late 40s.
  • (8) Such is the difficulty of answering questions like, which village near Vienna is the site of the hunting lodge where the Habsburg crown prince Rudolf and his paramour Mary Vetsera committed suicide in mysterious circumstances in 1889 or which mythic Greek hero was the son of Telamon and the cousin of Achilles and was referred to as the “bulwark of the Achaeans” in Homer’s epic poem the Iliad, Pilkington has spurned the usual game and invented one of his own.
  • (9) Court battles and exposés revealed salacious details of Jefri's jetset lifestyle, including allegations of a harem of western paramours and a luxury yacht he owned called "Tits".
  • (10) In a 2007 comic book chapter, the original patriotic hero, Steve Rogers, was revealed to have died after being shot at close range by sometime paramour Sharon Carter, who had been hypnotised into committing the murder.
  • (11) I have no idea what circumstances led to Whittingdale’s former paramour becoming involved in sex work.
  • (12) Johnson, best known for small roles in the Oscar-winning The Social Network and comedy The Five Year Engagement, remains in the lead female role of Grey's blushing virginal paramour, Anastasia Steele.
  • (13) For a modest amount of money – certainly far less than it costs to start and maintain a human relationship – a growing number of websites now offer the services of pretend social media paramours.
  • (14) In an article in a college magazine, former student Stuart Delves called Jefferies and his colleagues in the English department "paramours of literature".
  • (15) There has been furious speculation over who might play kinky business magnate Christian Grey and his paramour Anastasia Steel in the film, with Ryan Gosling and Mila Kunis the current favourites with bookmakers .
  • (16) In an article written for a school magazine, Delves described Jefferies and his colleagues as "luminaries ... paramours of literature ... profound catalysts".
  • (17) But good sense isn't always good manners and there is still something of a stigma attached to admitting you know more about a potential paramour than you really should.
  • (18) Joking apart, Jagger, and Sophie Dahl's beau, Jamie Callum, may be interested to learn that scientists have just proved that 'Short man syndrome' is real, leastways in romance, and that the vertically challenged make intensely jealous paramours.
  • (19) Moyes, a name that, let's face it, sounds like a Yiddish word for eunuch, has endured 317 days of celibacy, whilst at Everton his former paramour, under the beguiling matador Martínez, is likely to claim the final Champions League place.

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