What's the difference between arcadian and dangerous?

Arcadian


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Arcadic

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He accused the army of a "catastrophic breakdown" in military discipline and described the MoD's attempts to dismiss all the allegations as an "Arcadian fantasy".
  • (2) Arcadian Painters , he bills the pairing, his working premise being that the veteran American artist (who died on 5 July 2011) shares with the 17th-century Frenchman a devotion to classical antiquity.
  • (3) At Dulwich there's an assiduous School-of-Raphael-style battle drawing from 1625 and more attractively, a 1628 canvas, The Arcadian Shepherds , echoing Titian at his most sensuous and poetic.
  • (4) The number of nervous processes becomes greater; degree of their ramification increases; a part of neurons of Dogiel II type turns into multiprocessive neurons with some signs of Dogiel I type cells; growth cones and arcadian structures are present; giant processes appear; thick nervous fasciculi are formed; volume of the neuron bodies increases more intensively.
  • (5) Arcadian Painters turns out to be a study in twinned forms of vivid awkwardness.
  • (6) Dusty Greenwell Park is not the most arcadian of retreats.
  • (7) In a blistering attack on the MoD, he accused it of "dereliction of legal, moral and professional duty" and a "catastrophic breakdown" in military discipline, and said the ministry's attempts to dismiss all the allegations were an "Arcadian fantasy".
  • (8) And in any case, Britain – or, rather, England - has long had an ingrained conservatism, there in everything from our eternal fondness for the idea of some lost Arcadian age , to the clarion call of the great English radical William Cobbett , which suits the time of Brexit as well as it fitted the late 18th and early 19th centuries: “We want great alteration, but we want nothing new.” But something more insidious is also going on.
  • (9) Yet it's not their flocks that Poussin's Arcadians attend to, but an inscription on a tomb.
  • (10) Glossy advertising to attract this baby boomer herd tends to feature gentle images of arcadian bliss, of smiling men and women, white, smiling, heterosexual, smiling, holding hands, smiling, enjoying communal barbeques minus smoke and smell, smiling, playing card games in ordered, uncluttered scenes of dustless domesticity, smiling, dressed in styles that don’t come out of local chainstores, smiling, a couple frolicking on a swing, smiling, she's in sensible lavender swirl, he's outfitted by RM Williams, and is pushing her, gently, smiling, against a background of manicured lawns and gardens, all bathed in photoshopped sunlight.
  • (11) The sun always shines in the world of The Great British Bake Off, an Arcadian land where the currency is compliments, innuendo and pie.

Dangerous


Definition:

  • (a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
  • (a.) Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
  • (a.) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
  • (a.) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
  • (a.) Reserved; not affable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
  • (2) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
  • (3) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (4) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (5) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
  • (6) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
  • (7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
  • (8) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
  • (9) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (10) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
  • (11) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
  • (12) When in addition the serum P is low (which was a feature of male patients), the danger exists for osteomalacia to develop.
  • (13) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
  • (14) "If older people do not stay informed about the changes and take action, there is a danger that they will end up paying more unnecessarily."
  • (15) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
  • (16) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
  • (17) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
  • (18) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
  • (19) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
  • (20) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.

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