What's the difference between angry and furore?

Angry


Definition:

  • (superl.) Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
  • (superl.) Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
  • (superl.) Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
  • (superl.) Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves.
  • (superl.) Red.
  • (superl.) Sharp; keen; stimulated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet those who have remained committed have become ever more angry.
  • (2) But it still seemed unlikely, despite the angry and determined mood, that the kingdom would risk ground operations, informed sources said – not least because the main strongholds of Isis are far away in northeastern Syria and across the border in Iraq.
  • (3) He was angry that the journal had not asked him to review the paper, or at least comment on it, before publication.
  • (4) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
  • (5) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
  • (6) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
  • (7) I don't like it when people say, 'The youth are angry.
  • (8) But with this, they have managed to mobilise the young, and we are very angry.
  • (9) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
  • (10) 12.35pm BST Want to feel depressed and a bit angry at modern football?
  • (11) 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.
  • (12) RBS chief executive Ross McEwan apologised to consumers: “To say I’m angry would be an understatement.
  • (13) They’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college so they can’t retire with dignity.” One of the signs that voters still lack confidence in the US job market is the labor participation rate, which in 2015 reached its lowest point in 38 years.
  • (14) Conservative MPs and constituency chairmen have been handling hundreds of complaints from grassroots activists angry at David Cameron's desire to legalise gay marriage amid further defections from the party and resignations among rank and file members.
  • (15) Verbally abused children were more angry and more pessimistic about their future.
  • (16) But, as always, watch the Mail – and watch it fall into familiar angry mode.
  • (17) This is a dangerous moment for politics in Britain: it is not the moment to ignore or belittle the angry cry from voters telling us they are deeply sick of politics as usual.
  • (18) : Would you feel angry?, produced significantly more affirmative responses (reports of feeling angry) than non-inducing questions, e.g.
  • (19) This prompted an angry response from the bill's sponsors who accused opponents of using border security as an excuse to block any immigration reform.
  • (20) It was very tense, they were very angry, but we tried to be respectful, while explaining that I was doing my job taking photos.

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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