What's the difference between cachet and oomph?

Cachet


Definition:

  • (n.) A seal, as of a letter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following messages are elaborated: osteoporosis is a silent thief; backache during the menopause is not always osteoporosis; detection of the patient at risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible; primary osteoarthrosis protects against osteoporosis; bone densitometry has given osteoporosis a scientific cachet; bones are not stones, effective prevention and treatment are possible, there are alternatives to calcium and hormone replacement therapies.
  • (2) The Nobel prize has a cachet that will not be surpassed in a hurry.
  • (3) It may be that if you move a drug up a class, it has a greater cachet.
  • (4) At least one reason is straightforward: clubbing lost its all-important cachet of cool.
  • (5) It looked like a marriage of convenience: Piano would lend Sellar his cachet and Sellar would give Piano the chance to build the most conspicuous landmark of his career.
  • (6) But the world has changed since it launched in 2009, and the idea of letting all your friends know where you are doesn't have quite the same cachet in 2014.
  • (7) "The fact that he had made it in Britain gave him tremendous cachet in India, particularly among the 200,000 or so English-speakers who still run the country," he adds.
  • (8) I think parents want the social cachet of having kids at grammar school, they're holding on to old perceptions and we wanted to set the record straight."
  • (9) But Everest still has a certain cachet.” It does.
  • (10) Chinese giant pandas have been a hit all around the world but seem to have a special cachet in Taiwan, where animal figures are so much in vogue that the airline company Eva Airways has found that festooning its aircraft in the livery of fictional Japanese figure Hello Kitty provides a powerful boost to sales.
  • (11) The last presidential duo to have that kind of cachet were John and Jackie.
  • (12) It was these roles that gave him a serious cachet among a generation of film buffs who became movie makers, such as David Zucker, who cast him in the comedy spoof Top Secret!
  • (13) The idea was popularized in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by the conservative writer Heather Mac Donald, and gained cachet as national figures like Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and FBI director James Comey invoked it, or a similar “YouTube” or “viral video” effect, to describe a behavior among law enforcement of rolling back their most proactive policing strategies in response to criticism and scrutiny from the general public.
  • (14) Its prices place it above the highest end of the high street, stores such as Jigsaw, Whistles, Hobbs and Reiss, without the cachet of the catwalks or celebrity endorsement.
  • (15) I imagine the cachet at school must have been tremendous, but he puts me right on that.
  • (16) However much she condemns the hypocrisy of traditional marketing, she knows her backstory has cachet.
  • (17) Major labels in the UK also capitalised on the cool cachet of the cassette.
  • (18) There is certainly cachet and brand equity attached to many of the brands, beyond their intrinsic value.
  • (19) His charm and immense wealth gave him a cachet that few other Iranians enjoyed.
  • (20) Once an icon of British gentility (as perceived by non-Brits), the commissariat of trench coats , scarves, and other country squire accoutrements, Burberry had lost its cachet by sticking to a taste-numbing repetition.

Oomph


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A pologies in advance for the lack of fizz, the absence of oomph, the non-appearance of verve in today's Rumour Mill.
  • (2) "Let's try a sultry one," the photographer says and she turns up the oomph.
  • (3) Spectacular architecture, vibrant festivals and flamenco flamboyance; Seville has plenty of peacock oomph.
  • (4) "If Sixty Minutes and the news outlets portray this as a new wave in American politics, and De Blasio as a courageous man taking on inequality, they could create an oomph that will make other politicians afraid to oppose him."
  • (5) From this perspective, the relative lack of earning and public power of the majority of women can be seen not as the result of discrimination but of good old nature (women choosing to do less paid work), or a simple lack of personal or career oomph.
  • (6) There is a little bit more oomph to these storms when they do develop, the so-called nor’easters in particular,” said Nor’easters pack their punch from the contrast between cold land temperatures and the warmer Gulf stream and surrounding waters.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Queueing at a London Muslim Centre meeting The star turn is Guardian columnist and activist Owen Jones , who gives a speech, some of which he reads off his phone, about the Diggers and suffragettes; it’s delivered with his customary oomph.
  • (8) Moreover, though modern Tories have their own versions of all these problems, Labour seems to suffer from an altogether deeper pathology – perhaps because, whereas the Conservatives are confident enough to voice their ideas with that bit more clarity and oomph, Labour is still so scared of its own shadow that it too often ends up sounding downright strange.
  • (9) Thankfully André Schürrle and Mario Götze eventually reduced the deficit, putting a bit more oomph into his delivery.
  • (10) Johnson was a puncher-boxer and dandy; Dempsey an uncomplicated hitter; Tunney had grace and nerve and fast feet; Louis’s fast hands punched in a blur of combinations, and he had a killer instinct as well as chivalry; Marciano had relentless oomph and steam-hammer cruelty.
  • (11) Fed officials are likely to view the economy as having a bit more ‘oomph’ than originally thought heading into Q3,” he wrote in a note to investors.
  • (12) There again, there were rumblings about developments over the next couple of days, and the idea that – just maybe – a few high-ranking Labour people might belatedly act, and give the third anti-Brown heave the oomph and coherence it has so far lacked.
  • (13) Within seven days of his appointment last month as care services minister, Lamb was promising the "political oomph" necessary to take the concept of integration from the pages of academic journals and isolated examples of good practice, and apply it across the health and social care system.
  • (14) He is absolutely correct, too, in his description of the Tories, who are "confident enough to voice their ideas with that bit more clarity and oomph".
  • (15) I’m not sure about Jeremy Corbyn at all – he hasn’t got the oomph to be leader,” she says.
  • (16) It takes the oomph out of a good comedic punch if the target is an inflatable clown who keeps popping back up.
  • (17) The third Scotland's main constituent parts are National Collective, the Radical Independence Campaign – a loose coalition of greens, ex-Labour lefties and socialist-inclined newbies – and, by way of ideological oomph, the Jimmy Reid Foundation .
  • (18) I know he will put everything into it to give NCS the additional support and oomph it needs.
  • (19) It certainly is: this is a proposal, after all, with all the ideological oomph and toxicity of the poll tax , if not more.
  • (20) In a sense, the lack of oomph in the property market is curious.