(n.) The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, the Janssen portrait had, it was shown during conservation work in 1988, been painted over to make the sitter look balder, and more "Shakespearean".
(2) The Samaritans urges us to avoid some terms, such as the old-fashioned "commit suicide", as if it were a deliberate, thought-out act, or "successful suicide", as if this were a positive event, and instead use the balder "death by suicide" or "take one's own life".
(3) Then, in 2007, he returned with his old friend Paul Whitehouse in a sketch show with new characters – balder, greyer and thinner than we remembered him.
(4) The balder facts of the story were that the parliaments in Edinburgh and London had paid Anthony d'Offay £26m, the cost price of work he had mostly acquired in the last five years, and waived his £14m tax bill.
Loki
Definition:
(n.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have no idea what it would take to kill Thor; nor for that matter does Loki.
(2) Thor: The Dark World sees Chris Hemsworth's Asgardian prince forced to team up with Tom Hiddleston's crafty Loki to take down an even greater threat, Christopher Eccleston's nefarious Malekith.
(3) There's also Kid Loki from my last book, Miss America and a female Hawkeye.
(4) No details have yet been released on the nature of his role, but Hiddleston, who shot to international fame playing Loki in the two Thor movies so far produced by Marvel as well as the same studio’s two Avengers films, now counts as a major draw for the science-fiction and fantasy fanbase.
(5) In so doing, the studio made good on the promise delivered at Comic-Con 2013, when Tom Hiddleston appeared in character as Loki and had the massed ranks of Hall H eating out of his hand.
(6) The author Joanne Harris, whose new novel The Gospel of Loki is set in the world of Norse mythology, also called Nordby's discovery "very, very interesting".
(7) In Thor , the bodacious nordic deity spends most of the movie worrying about a race of tall, antisocial creatures called The Frost Giants of Jotunheim, and does quite a bit of jousting with the testy emissaries of the US government, when the person he should really be worrying about is his brother, Loki.
(8) Now the coincidence of this meeting jolts him into an éclaircissement : "Loki," he said.
(9) Much will depend on whether James Spader’s CGI Ultron can equal Tom Hiddleston’s opulently evil Loki last time out.
(10) Next, came a third onslaught of what might have sounded like the posher, officer class; the old Etonians: Hugh Laurie, in House , Dominic West, in The Wire , Damian Lewis, in Homeland, and Tom Hiddleston as Loki in the Marvel comic book films – except, of course, these well-heeled English actors’ tough American accents and stateside machismo were faultless when required.
(11) "You're slow," said Loki, "but you get there in the end."