What's the difference between amour and tryst?

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.

Tryst


Definition:

  • (n.) Trust.
  • (n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst.
  • (n.) To trust.
  • (n.) To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with.
  • (v. i.) To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) RTL said Trierweiler had let it be known that she had not had a "nervous breakdown" when Hollande confessed to his alleged affair with Julie Gayet, 41, hours before Closer magazine published its "special edition" claiming Hollande had been secretly leaving the Elysée Palace for secret trysts with the actor.
  • (2) Hotel Chevalier is about a young couple, played by Portman and Schwartzman, reuniting for a (possibly final) tryst.
  • (3) Abroad, he had perhaps been best known for his furtive motorcycle tryst with his actor lover, Julie Gayet, and his messy, public breakup with his First Lady, Valérie Trierweiler.
  • (4) Lacking long-term shared goals, many are turning to what she terms "Pot Noodle love" – easy or instant gratification, in the form of casual sex, short-term trysts and the usual technological suspects: online porn, virtual-reality "girlfriends", anime cartoons.
  • (5) She admitted the couple had become "detached" but said the revelations in Closer magazine that Hollande 59, had been leaving the Elysée for secret trysts with Julie Gayet, 41, had come as a complete shock.
  • (6) Where does Wickham have a tryst with Georgiana Darcy?
  • (7) Could he guarantee his security was not compromised during his clandestine trysts with Gayet?
  • (8) Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the allegations is the question of whether Hollande's trysts with what one newspaper waggishly called France's "second lady" have been funded out of the public purse.
  • (9) The first question he was asked after his long and detailed address, was whether Valérie Trierweiler was still first lady, after claims by Closer magazine that he had been enjoying secret trysts with Julie Gayet at an apartment just a stone's throw from the Elysée Palace.
  • (10) She was my first not-really-straight girl tryst, but she would not be my last.
  • (11) No one here cared much about his trysts with Gayet or his bad behaviour towards Trierweiller but people do care about this.
  • (12) It's licensed, so if a hair of the dog's your thing, try some locally brewed ale, including one from Stewart Brewing and one from Falkirk's Tryst.
  • (13) Described on his own website as a "poacher and gamekeeper" who has "helped save many a famous career from media damage and destruction", Clifford looked on helpless from the court dock as his own hard-built reputation was shattered by increasingly sordid stories about his secret trysts and bizarre obsession with the size of his penis.
  • (14) You’d be hard-pushed to claim there was anything profound going on in either work, but Green found a way of infusing his tryst with Mary-Jane with the auteurship of old in 2013’s more sombre Prince Avalanche : its tale of two road-marking painters retained the loopy conversation and spacey rhythms.
  • (15) Kushner then had a videotape of the tryst sent to his sister.
  • (16) Edinburgh zoo's two pandas are close to beginning their second tryst, after the zoo announced that their short-lived breeding season could start within hours.
  • (17) There's no suggestion in the coverage that Delevingne's relationship is taboo It is true that there has been some old-style titillating coverage concerning Delevingne and Clark – the Mirror and Mail reported on a supposed mile-high tryst (“they both snuck into a cubicle together … fifteen minutes later they reappeared looking pretty dishevelled”).
  • (18) The revelation that her partner had been sneaking out of the Elysée to make the 165-metre journey to a flat in a nearby street for secret trysts with Gayet, hit Trierweiler like "a TGV hitting the buffers".
  • (19) After a few Mills & Boon-like reluctant trysts, Gigi would tearfully admit to her father that she had fallen for her handsome prince and they would split the dosh, perhaps spending her half on an island to be used exclusively for lezzers, their quad bikes and tattoo parlours.
  • (20) A lmost exactly two years after their fateful tryst in the Downing Street rose garden, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are sick and tired of people likening their coalition knee-trembler to a marriage.

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