What's the difference between celebration and fanfare?

Celebration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act, process, or time of celebrating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
  • (2) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
  • (3) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
  • (4) There are many examples to support his assertion, yet for the most part, it is celebrities who dictate what images can be published and what stories should be told.
  • (5) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
  • (6) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (7) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
  • (8) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (9) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
  • (10) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
  • (11) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
  • (12) My boyfriend and I headed to a sushi bar to celebrate.
  • (13) In early 2009, he took part in Celebrity Big Brother for a rumoured fee of £100,000.
  • (14) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
  • (15) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
  • (16) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (17) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
  • (18) Roche, 30, was born in High Wycombe, but moved with her British parents to Germany as a young child, and has been a national celebrity there since her teens, presenting music and culture shows.
  • (19) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
  • (20) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.

Fanfare


Definition:

  • (n.) A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Despite the fanfare of an investigation, the FCA, possibly under pressure from the Treasury, dropped its investigation into banking culture.
  • (2) The fanfare attracted not only meat lovers but also vegetarians such as Mary Catherine O’Connor, who has not eaten meat in 30 years.
  • (3) Life after El Chapo: a year on from drug kingpin’s capture, business is blooming Read more This is clearest, he says, in the lack of judicial action against collaborators of the world’s most infamous narco, the Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, arrested a year ago amid much fanfare.
  • (4) Under the vast murals of Oslo's City Hall, the traditional venue for the Nobel peace prize lectures, Aung Sun Suu Kyi appeared impossibly small, entering the hall wearing a purple jacket and flowing lilac scarf to the sound of a trumpet fanfare.
  • (5) These protests are in stark contrast to Cuadrilla's opening of operations in the north-west in 2010, which took place amid little fanfare.
  • (6) Claudio Reyna successfully marshaled Glasgow Rangers, Sunderland and Manchester City for over a decade and more recently Stuart Holden arrived on the EPL scene to much fanfare, assisting Dempsey in lifting the interest level in MLS talent once more.
  • (7) On 8 January 2013, Bowie put a video for his new single Where Are They Now on his website, without any fanfare.
  • (8) In 2001, the newly devolved Labour-led Welsh government launched a fanfare of regeneration initiatives.
  • (9) We deliberately didn’t want any fanfare,” says Hodge, “I just wanted to buy stuff I’d wear again, which would remind me of a really happy time.
  • (10) Not with a song booted out into the world without pageant or fanfare.
  • (11) He was withdrawn to not great fanfare, or surprise, for Nacer Chadli just before the hour.
  • (12) Yet they seem to have trumpeted this exciting new direction in their tax-hunting activities with similar fanfare to that which must have attended the nailing of Capone.
  • (13) Opened in the last weeks of November amid fanfares, Kerry Town was the first British government-funded treatment centre in Sierra Leone and was heralded as the flagship of the UK effort and the beginning of the end of Ebola in the west African country.
  • (14) Industrial hygienists are obviously participating in these programs, and without fanfare.
  • (15) There can be little argument against the IEA's basic premise that budget statements have increasingly degraded into "fanfare, placing emphasis on good politics at the expense of good economics".
  • (16) They sacrifice families, their freedom, risk their lives, put their careers on hold but rarely to any fanfares.
  • (17) Meanwhile, Witherspoon can afford to exercise her own interests and preoccupations: she has filmed a small role in Inherent Vice for Paul Thomas Anderson, yet another connection to one of America’s modern master film-makers, and headlined an unlikely immigration drama, The Good Lie, about Sudanese refugees in the US, that was released to little fanfare last October.
  • (18) It's a fanfare for the common dog: a nuzzly celebration of humanity and the deep, hopeless love of doggy-woggies that is written on Britain's heart in pet-friendly ink.
  • (19) But in a sign of pent-up reform pressure on Capitol Hill, two measures dealing with the NSA were quietly included in the 1,600-page spending text with relatively little fanfare – or opposition from the White House – and are likely to pave the way for more binding legislative efforts once President Barack Obama outlines his own response to the surveillance scandal on Friday.
  • (20) Why on earth launch a showy new pound coin with so much fanfare, when the real news is supposed to be the UK's superb growth projections, absurdly generous new subsidies for childcare and a thoroughly welcome rise in the income tax threshold, courtesy of Nick Clegg?

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