What's the difference between banshee and mournful?

Banshee


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Banshie

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rob Auton: ­ The Water Show Banshee Labyrinth, to 30 Aug A show all about water.
  • (2) It was not the familiar banshee scream of a lovelorn vixen, but a rapid, almost mechanical, yipping.
  • (3) The big story Once upon a time the Oscar ceremony was a comforting drone punctuated only by the odd song-and-dance routine and the banshee wailing of overwhelmed best actress award winners.
  • (4) With bands such as the Banshees and the Bunnymen opting for lavish orchestrations, Bush now seemed less like a throwback to pre-punk times and more like a sort of posh auntie to the goths.
  • (5) In 1976, the two friends formed one of the first punk bands, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
  • (6) They call him the Shoreditch Creeper and ascertain that he's a Siouxsie & The Banshees fan.
  • (7) Richard Gadd Banshee Labyrinth , 6-28 August Facebook Twitter Pinterest Anarchic stunt comedy … Richard Gadd.
  • (8) Luther and Ripley then proceed to bicker over what genre the Banshees are: "Post-punk."
  • (9) Instead of doing a body scan, I fantasized about flinging off my pillows and running through the empty space in the center of the hall, screaming like a banshee.
  • (10) Natasia Demetriou And Ellie White Are Mother And Baby is at the Banshee Labyrinth, 8-30 August
  • (11) I fantasized about flinging off my pillows and running through the hall, screaming like a banshee Studies have shown that people who are blind or deaf have heightened ability in other bodily senses.
  • (12) From trapping a banshee in a bin to dealing with zombie students, it’s an action-packed adventure full of smart kids that grownups won’t mind watching either.
  • (13) It's like this: in the face of American capitalism and its defenders, there is almost nothing to be done but stomp up and down on the remains of popular culture and shriek like a banshee.
  • (14) There's also a cover version of Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie and the Banshees, which augurs well.
  • (15) Natasia Demetriou And Ellie White Are Mother And Baby is at Banshee Labyrinth, to 30 August PHIL WANG How to heckle Facebook Twitter Pinterest Phil Wang.
  • (16) This morning, 14 years on, Wright is pulling together and fact-checking his script to make sure his audience is whipped into a factually sturdy frenzy on topics such as a proposal to regulate legal highs ("What does Banshee Dust actually do ?").
  • (17) Richard Gadd, whose Waiting for Gaddot was the buzziest hit of last year’s fringe, is likewise back in the (free) Banshee Labyrinth pub – although that’s a mite more explicable, given how in your face and non-mainstream Gadd’s work is.
  • (18) I didn't fully appreciate it at the time but, looking back, the lineup was unmissable: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Young Marble Giants, the Durutti Column, Soft Cell, the Psychedelic Furs, Altered Images .

Mournful


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (2) Those with shallow roots are least likely to mourn change.
  • (3) Asked by television reporters outside the church for comment on the officers’ decision to turn their backs, Lynch said: “The feeling is real, but today is about mourning, tomorrow is about debate.” Pressed on the point, Lynch said: “We have to understand the betrayal that they feel.
  • (4) Coping with dying patients and mourning are also basic family tasks.
  • (5) A bereavement during pregnancy is difficult to mourn: a pregnant woman is so increasingly preoccupied with the new life that mourning is interrupted and often impossible to resume later.
  • (6) Ten days after the consulate was stormed, thousands of Benghazi residents, some carrying American flags and placards mourning Stevens, stormed the base of Sharia, setting it ablaze.
  • (7) A model of transition that accounts for individual differences is used to discuss the potential interaction among variables associated with the mourning process.
  • (8) "Whilst business will not mourn the passing of many of the bodies announced today, some were doing valuable work which must not be lost amidst the widespread cull."
  • (9) Apart from a few diehards, it will be hard to mourn the defeat in 2010 of a political party that lost its moral bearings in its bid to woo middle England, slavishly reflecting back what it believed this narrow constituency wanted to hear.
  • (10) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.
  • (11) Despite the findings of this study, it was suggested that future dove management strategies consider the possibility of disease outbreaks involving white-winged doves and susceptible populations of mourning doves.
  • (12) The mourning period has caused controversy – while many laud him for his contributions to building Singapore into a wealthy city state, others have criticised his rule as one where the media was controlled and dissent was crushed.
  • (13) The Afghan government has declared three days of national mourning.
  • (14) If the internet allows us all to participate in collective mourning , then it should also demand that we do so more creatively.
  • (15) It was the third day of mourning for a young man named Issam.
  • (16) In order to escape from guilt he retreated once more to the protection of the organization and it is this which prevented him mourning his lost objects.
  • (17) As a sport, we mourn for Kirsty and remember her great contribution to swimming and the Loxton community.” Boden was a keen traveller and said she was “just your average dreamer, with a full-time job and a constant longing to go where I haven’t been”.
  • (18) Finally, Germany also mourned the death of four people in a car accident in Hamburg.
  • (19) 9.51pm BST And now, we prepare for retribution: David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) No Senator who heeledtoday on the NRA's command should have the gall to issue mournful statements the next time gun violence strikes.
  • (20) Last month saw impassioned protests from immigrant representatives after the mayor refused to declare an official day of mourning for three Chinese drowned in floods.