What's the difference between attuned and harmony?

Attuned


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Attune

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It could be said that Brown's methods were not eccentric but merely attuned to the demands of Eighties and Nineties culture.
  • (2) The overall results of this pilot study indicate that nurses need to be more attuned to assessing fatigue as a side effect of BRM therapy.
  • (3) Maybe I'm more attuned to the sadness now; maybe I'm better with the weaker Ben Richards, the desperation that makes him enter the competition.
  • (4) If I'm attuned acutely to the presence of women in children's entertainment, that's partly a result of having two daughters.
  • (5) Whereas both groups were attuned to this ball flight information, only the experts were capable of picking up information from the early part of the opponent's actions.
  • (6) The occupational health nurse should be attuned to issues and research regarding prevention of CVD.
  • (7) Physical illness may give rise to feelings of hopelessness to which the physician must stay attuned; the patient may also use physical illness as a pretext for seeking help for deeper things that trouble him.
  • (8) Urologists attuned to the possible diagnosis of MS in patients who present with symptoms of voiding dysfunction can facilitate the proper diagnosis with a basic office evaluation.
  • (9) The structure of the teacher's utterances was not as closely attuned to the communicative levels of the children.
  • (10) On discovering that children harmed in relationships can heal through play with an attuned adult, I decided to train as a play therapist.
  • (11) Hobsbawm Macaulay received an unusual amount of press attention for a PR start-up, and was portrayed as a rather quirky high-minded experiment, but in fact the agency was attuned to where power increasingly lay in Britain, with the media, the expanding cultural and charitable industries, and the then rising New Labour establishment.
  • (12) Sharpeners, highly attuned to system differences and nuances, and always alert to distinctions, try hard to let nothing slip by them unnoticed.
  • (13) He knew all about unconscious bias, was attuned to issues of diversity and was passionate about changing middle management composition which he said was “too male, stale and pale”.
  • (14) PFS is a painful rheumatologic disorder that may be detected by the wary clinician attuned to the presence of seven or more tender points.
  • (15) The transactional model provides a novel guide for the psychiatric hospital treatment of children by improving the attunement between the child and his or her important interpersonal environment.
  • (16) It is suggested that a progressive movement or dialectic between the pre-verbal affect-attunement level and formalized interpretation may be optimal in analytic therapy.
  • (17) In addition, the quality of the social context of feeding has been shown to affect food acceptance and the extent to which children are attuned to cues of hunger and satiety in self-regulating food intake.
  • (18) Women seem particularly attuned to seeking out not partners but rehabilitation projects, though there are plenty of men who reprise the pillar of strength routine when they could do with support themselves.
  • (19) Intercarpal displacements are linked to one another and are based upon the mutual attuning of carpal bone geometry, joint contacts, and ligamentous interconnections.
  • (20) Since many of those exposed are unaware that they received DES, the health care profession must be attuned to the signs and symptoms predisposed by the exposure and be able to provide adequate follow-up and education concerning this medical problem.

Harmony


Definition:

  • (n.) The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.
  • (n.) Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony.
  • (n.) A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels.
  • (n.) A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.
  • (n.) The science which treats of their construction and progression.
  • (n.) See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These concepts of facial harmony and surgical alterations have been difficult to teach in a residency program, especially regarding preoperative evaluation and a clear idea of the desired surgical results.
  • (2) The results will give Harmony 25 seats in Latvia’s 100-seat parliament, six fewer than they had before the elections, when they were also the largest single party in parliament.
  • (3) Japan has a long history of placing great value on the idea of harmony and respecting the rights of everyone,” she said.
  • (4) He has previously said the Anzac spirit had “informed our Australian culture and our character ever since that time, and I don’t think that lining it up with NAIDOC week, reconciliation day, harmony day and so on gives it the central focus that it deserves in our curriculum”.
  • (5) The grand mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammad, said Islam did not need a reformation “since the normative principles and practices of the religion allow Muslims to harmoniously coexist within pluralist societies that are based on the universal values of compassion and justice”.
  • (6) There are many differences between full dentures on Brånemark implants and fixed partial dentures built on the same type of implants: due to some more critical anatomical conditions, the choice of number, position and length of the implants is more delicate; the need of an harmonious crown-gingival tissue relationship; higher occlusal forces than in edentalous cases; difficulty in satisfying aesthetic requirements and ease of hygiene.
  • (7) Following the success of that release – and with the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's still months away – Brian Wilson imagined an orchestral and psychedelic suite showcasing the group's vocal harmonies.
  • (8) We also know little about the relative aptitude for different musical components, especially melody and harmony.
  • (9) In cultures at temperatures higher than necessary for optimum rates of growth the average lifetime of messenger RNA lengthened in harmony with the increased time required for cell division.
  • (10) Gay bishops have proved a headache for the archbishop of Canterbury, who has struggled to maintain harmony since taking office in 2002.
  • (11) A better conceptual balance needs to be struck between their harmonious and antagonistic functioning.
  • (12) A review of the literature shows little harmony between the results of this and various other studies.
  • (13) Induction by PB and MC of ER O-dealkylase, PR O-dealkylase and UDP-GT activities in ciliary NPE and PE cells was inhibited almost completely by 3.5 microM cyclohexamide and 40 nM actinomycin D. The heterogeneous distribution of these enzymes suggests that a harmonious interplay between NPE and PE cells is important for metabolic detoxification of blood plasma prior to aqueous humor formation.
  • (14) New Gambian leader Adama Barrow sworn in at ceremony in Senegal Read more But Jammeh, like most dictators, gives greater weight to his ego and grandeur over national peace and harmony.
  • (15) The utilization review department, as well as the medical staff, must work in close harmony with administration to assist the facility in surviving trying economical times.
  • (16) Up to half a million wolves once roamed across America , living in harmony with native Americans who revered them for supposed healing powers.
  • (17) While Victorians celebrated the empire on which the sun would never set with successive jubilees (golden, 1887, and diamond, 1897), many readers fretted over foreign (increasingly German) threats to the harmony of English life.
  • (18) Is this not a remarkable achievement, that we have such a diverse community and yet we live together so harmoniously?” Parramatta shooting: speculation is plentiful but the facts are few Read more Turnbull said: “And should we not ask ourselves: how did that happen?
  • (19) While those figures may be skewed by one film alone (Harmony Korine's hit teenage skin celebration Spring Breakers ) the overall pattern of sex bias is unmistakable.
  • (20) Working separately has, they say, been no bad thing for marital harmony.

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