What's the difference between anger and furore?

Anger


Definition:

  • (n.) Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
  • (n.) A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.
  • (v. t.) To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.
  • (v. t.) To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (2) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  • (3) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
  • (4) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
  • (5) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
  • (6) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
  • (7) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
  • (8) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
  • (9) But instead, he is going to crack under public anger over the huge amounts senior bankers have been paying themselves.
  • (10) Was that misreading the mood music of the referendum?” He claimed that many Tories had expressed their anger directly to Rudd about the controversial policy, which has since been watered down.
  • (11) Even in the best case this would cause a serious shock to the UK economy.” The CBI report angered Brexit campaigners, who believe the government is trying to scare voters into supporting Britain remaining in the EU.
  • (12) The walk-out is by far the most serious confrontation with the government since the elevation of the conservative-led, three-party coalition to power in June – and, says unionists, underlines the scale of public anger over cuts that are widely seen to be unfair.
  • (13) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
  • (14) Photograph: Rex Features If Brookstein had confined his anger to legitimate provocations, it would be easier to sympathise, for he seems to have suffered more than enough of them on The X Factor.
  • (15) I have in the past predicted anger, as the consequences of the recession for public spending become clear; I think the process of expressing that anger has barely begun.
  • (16) Photograph: Guardian Environmental activists now argue that if Obama fails to recognise that anger and block the pipeline, he could hurt his chances in the 2012 elections.
  • (17) Five needs were reported by more than 30% of the sample as not being met: 1) being able to talk about fears of the future, illness, or death; 2) being occupied and having things to do; 3) having up-to-date information about HIV; 4) having someone to help them with their feelings of depression, helplessness, anxiety, or anger; and 5) help for the patient's family.
  • (18) But I have heard from other people who have lost spouses in this way, and fathers and mothers, and anger is perfectly appropriate.
  • (19) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
  • (20) Denial, minimization, anger, withdrawal and noncompliance may occur.

Furore


Definition:

  • (n.) Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
  • (2) He has his job to do and he has to do it the way he thinks best.” On Saturday night, in a sign of the growing concern at the top of the party about the affair, one shadow cabinet member told the Observer : “The issue is already echoing back at us on the doorsteps.” At all levels, there was despair that the furore had turned the spotlight on to Labour’s difficulties as a time when the party had hoped to take advantage of the Tories’ second byelection loss at the hands of Ukip.
  • (3) The proportion of people who say they will change their shopping habits – or claim they would buy more fresh meat, cut down on ready meals or avoid products from companies linked to the scare – has dropped from 52% at the height of the furore to 47%.
  • (4) The chief executive has already waived his bonus for 2012 following the furore surrounding the £1m he was to be handed for 2011 before the political outcry forced him to hand it back.
  • (5) The bank's failed bid to buy 631 branches from Lloyds Banking Group caused a political furore, and was followed by allegations that Paul Flowers, the former chairman of the bank and a member of the main group board, had been involved in buying illegal drugs.
  • (6) There was also a minor furore in 2013 when Ukip trumpeted that her father would stand for the party as a council candidate.
  • (7) In a sign that Fox's decision to fall on his sword will not mark the end of the furore engulfing the Tories, both Liberal Democrat and Labour politicians stepped up their demands for the prime minister to explain why several senior members of his cabinet were involved in an Anglo-American organisation apparently at odds with his party's environmental commitments and pledge to defend free healthcare.
  • (8) But the Depp dog furore is a perfect example of the different approach Joyce will take to leading the Nationals – the rural-based minor party in the governing Coalition that has in recent years had a series of gentlemanly leaders who, wherever possible, have settled differences with their Coalition parties quietly, created public fusses only rarely, and international incidents never.
  • (9) The furore over Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand's prank-gone-wrong brought the debate surrounding boorish comedy to a head, and has shifted the goalposts for broadcast comedy.
  • (10) I phoned Martin during the first days of the furore.
  • (11) In an earlier case that created an international furor, another American, James Walter Palmer, was accused of killing a well-known lion named Cecil in an early July hunt that Zimbabwe officials said was illegal.
  • (12) HSBC and NatWest are to scrap all charges for withdrawing money from cash machines, reviving the furore over Barclays' plan to charge as much as £1 for using its network.
  • (13) But WPP insiders at the annual meeting believe the company has become unfairly caught up in the furore over pay.
  • (14) "Because of the furore over the row it has not been possible to leverage the kind of synergy that Worldwide had hoped.
  • (15) Lawrie accused Giles, who has been on leave, of hiding while the furore played out, and asked whether he knew of the potential conflict of interest before a government reshuffle on 12 December when he handed the police and emergency services portfolio to Peter Chandler.
  • (16) Moir, who has won a British Press Award, made a statement defending her column late on Friday, saying it was not her intention to offend, blaming a "heavily orchestrated internet campaign" for the furore and adding that it was "mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones".
  • (17) The furore is also likely to put further pressure on loyalist paramilitary leaders who have been arguing that loyalists refrain from retaliating over recent attacks by dissident republicans.
  • (18) The Irish taoiseach, Enda Kenny, admitted in the wake of Merkel's comments, at a summit of European Union leaders on Friday, that the furore had damaged the country's standing .
  • (19) Since we want to dig all deeper into Chad Johnson, can we dig in deep to her?” On Friday, Smith released his own response to the furore through a series of tweets ; after further criticism, he posted a link to a full statement .
  • (20) The story had caused a furore inside Russia, even pricking politicians from Russia's normally horizontal state duma to demand Berezovsky's extradition from Britain, something Britain's judicial system had consistently refused to do.

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