What's the difference between baleful and foreboding?

Baleful


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
  • (a.) Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can’t believe it was disallowed,” Bale admitted.
  • (2) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
  • (3) The ball's lost, but Tiago gifts it back to Bale, who makes for the Atlético area with great purpose.
  • (4) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
  • (5) However, the Real Madrid forward Bale and Arsenal playmaker Ramsey missed those three games through injury, and Allen insists their presence makes a massive difference to Wales .
  • (6) The first controversy came in the 19th minute, when Bale tore into the penalty area on to Tom Huddlestone's through ball and felt Sebastian Larsson's arm in his back.
  • (7) Aaron Ramsey, who scored the opening goal and set up Bale for the third, was outstanding, Joe Allen delivered another imperious performance in centre midfield and then there was that wonderful moment when Neil Taylor, of all people, popped up with the second goal.
  • (8) Hal Robson-Kanu, whose persistence on the left led to the free-kick that Wales profited from to take the lead, would have added a second goal five minutes later if he had showed the same cool head as Bale.
  • (9) Bale was more than 30 yards from goal when he started lining up the shot.
  • (10) He tried it in November 2014 in Belgium and, although Wales got a precious point and drew 0-0, Bale spent too long waiting for the ball that never came.
  • (11) That raised doubts over Bale’s availability for the trip to Anfield, as well as this weekend’s El Clásico with Barcelona , although Madrid have said for now they will keep an eye on the player.
  • (12) Neymar, it said, was a "crack" or superstar; Bale was a "catacrack", a disaster.
  • (13) Wales continued to push forward and gained reward late on when Vokes applied the finishing touch to a flowing move involving Bellamy and Bale.
  • (14) It was no surprise that Bale was behind the breakthrough.
  • (15) I know I am under a lot of pressure, but I am happy to face it.” The fee makes Rodriguez the fourth most expensive transfer of all time after Real’s £86m for Gareth Bale and £80m for Cristiano Ronaldo, and Barcelona’s £75m for Luis Suárez.
  • (16) On Monday, prosecutors told the judge, Col Jeffery Nance, that they hope to play a recording of the phone call, among others, to show a lack of remorse on Bales's part.
  • (17) The Holocaust set the moral, ethical and geopolitical parameters within which the western world lives, influenced international institutions, sits balefully on the shoulders of writers and artists, and is never entirely absent from our minds.
  • (18) Bale's camp had already worked out a package with Madrid that meant he would sign a six-year contract, with an annual salary close to €10m a year net, or £8.5m.
  • (19) More and more people, machines and fabric bales were crammed inside until the load-bearing columns cracked apart.
  • (20) It was a stunning turnaround, driven by the runs of Bale and, in particular, the craft of Ramsey.

Foreboding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forebode
  • (n.) Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a scene of young soldiers at rest for a few minutes at the front, he takes us into their heads: one full of dire forebodings, another singing, one trying to identify a bird on a tree – soldiers dreaming of girls’ breasts, dogs, sausages and poetry.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With foreboding I edge on to forbidden terrain.
  • (3) The theme here is hopeful, aspirant – but there's a foreboding sense that everyone involved may not get quite what they wished for.
  • (4) Paul writes: Dawn this morning in Washington DC, beneath an unusually foreboding sky.
  • (5) Today's professional nurse has access to current technology and possesses the assessment skills and knowledge that enable early recognition of signs and symptoms foreboding potentially disastrous complications.
  • (6) Its opening images – aerial shots of Tom's little car amid bare, ploughed fields – are reminiscent of the overhead photography of the Torrance family car early in The Shining , evoking the same sense of exposure, isolation and foreboding.
  • (7) Alencar wrote, "The preoccupation with health was frequent: either he was having the consequences of a fit or was foreboding one".
  • (8) Luther was my most obvious expression of this.” Osborne quoted by WJ Weatherby “The nag of disquiet and all the inescapable forebodings with which I had been born were so rooted that they couldn’t be dismissed by the pleasure, the luxuries, the companionships and liberations that I felt I should have been enjoying at this point in my life.” Osborne on life in the early 1960s in Almost a Gentleman.
  • (9) This means they receive no help from their local authority, or from family, neighbours or friends.” Calling for an urgent injection of cash into both services, it said: “Unless there is significant change to the funding of our health and social care system for older people as a result of decisions taken in the government’s spending review [next month], we look to the future with considerable foreboding.” The Department of Health disputed the charity’s claim that the social care budget had shrunk by £1.85bn over the last decade and would fall by another £470m this year.
  • (10) The developmental significance of adolescence experienced under conditions of social isolation and rejection with forebodings of the Holocaust was unrecognized in sanctioned silence and shared analytic denial.
  • (11) Civilians have paid a brutal price during this conflict, and we are filled with the deepest foreboding for those who remain in this last hellish corner of opposition-held eastern Aleppo,” said Rupert Colville, the UN’s human rights spokesman, before the ceasefire deal emerged.
  • (12) However, I am filled with great foreboding when I reflect that the said political-constitutional crisis is going to run concurrent with the sharp deterioration in economic conditions as foreshadowed in this not exactly morale-boosting effort from Mr Hammond.
  • (13) Although the official Franks report published the year after the Argentinian invasion concluded that it "could not have been foreseen", the newly opened documents detail the growing sense of foreboding among key figures.
  • (14) It’s the kind of spirit that won them the MLS Cup last year, and such continuation is somewhat foreboding for the rest of the league.
  • (15) But for Gabrielsson it was also heavy with foreboding.
  • (16) All animals are equal,” said the foreboding sign on the barn at the end of Animal Farm, “but some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell wrote that, mockingly, as an attack on fascism.
  • (17) The volume went down immediately and the sense of foreboding during that part of the night was not eased by the fact that Montenegro were defending with great togetherness.
  • (18) The sense of foreboding that surrounded Leicester City after they sent eyebrows everywhere skywards by replacing Nigel Pearson with Claudio Ranieri during a difficult summer has been blasted away by a team whose desire to prove a point has brought them six from their first two matches.
  • (19) I kind of wish he had been more foreboding, but he's just very friendly."
  • (20) Despite these forebodings, clubs from across Europe are plotting to wrench Crocodile Rooney from his primitive existence in the English outback and plunge him straight into a concrete jungle, where he will have to fend for himself with nothing but a sharpened stick and a salary of over £250,000 per week.