What's the difference between charming and sorcerous?
Charming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charm
(a.) Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(2) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(3) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(4) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
(5) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(6) The impressive choice of drinks ranges from local cider to unusual rosés from Navarra and punchy Toro and Bierzo reds, all selected by charming Nubia, wife of Juan Mari.
(7) The crucial additional feature of his nature, however, was that the apparently guileless charm was accompanied by a razor-sharp shrewdness.
(8) I think we are still the underdogs because they have high quality but we will try to do our best – if we lose it’s because Sevilla made a fantastic performance.” As well as missing a penalty Sevilla also hit the woodwork on two occasions, with the Leicester goal living a charmed life at times.
(9) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
(10) For all Lagarde's charm, it's hard not to feel a sense of Alice In Wonderland bewilderment about the IMF's work.
(11) The best charm shows water next to Heaven and then items representing qualities of Air, Earth and Water.
(12) For real will-this-do illustrating, look no further than conjoined twins Tip and Tap , although they admittedly boast a certain erstaz charm not seen post- Pique (the much-maligned Goleo VI and Pille the Erudite Ball apart).
(13) Seth Smith makes the final out of the A's season, which is a good luck charm for the Boston Red Sox, as Smith made the final out for the Colorado Rockies in the 2007 World Series that Boston won.
(14) In the tradition of the American author Patricia Highsmith, creator of the charming psychopath Tom Ripley, Rendell used twisting plots to expose twisted minds.
(15) As to Beyoncé herself, Hamilton had nothing but praise: "She is a very smart, serene lady … utterly charming and focused."
(16) He strikes me more as a clever man - oh, very clever - than a necessarily charming man; for there's a distance, an aloofness.
(17) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
(18) Pauline Kael, when reviewing the film, said, "Jane Fonda has been a charming, witty, nudie cutie in recent years, and now gets a chance at an archetypal character.
(19) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
(20) 5.14pm GMT Alan Pardew speaks ... With a smirk playing around his chops in a charm offensive on Sky Sports, he says he ‘massively regrets” sticking the hid on Hull City midfielder David Meyler and says he’ll be sitting down for matches in the future.
Sorcerous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to sorcery.
Example Sentences:
(1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
(2) Then, zipping his cagoule purposefully, this sonic sorcerer and eccentric sweetheart issues a parting shot.
(3) 'They are warriors, sorcerers and magicians,' she says.
(4) The story begins in 16th-century China, where an evil sorcerer, The Son Of Hell, seeks to take over the world.
(5) You’ll often hear a director or production designer complaining that a particular neighbourhood “does not look enough like itself”, and making various cosmetic changes – a nondescript wall in the East Village might be gussied up with flyers for punk shows, for example, or a Chinatown byway given additional Chinese signage and decoration, as was done on Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
(6) Donald Trump remains in the Oval Office, making decisions about whom to explode next (in the interview he calls this responsibility “the bigness of it all”), not gathering dust on a sorcerer’s shelf.
(7) For infertility, witches and spirits can be responsible but suspicion focuses mostly on the evil-doing of another individual, corresponding to the classical description of a sorcerer, and the "witch" or sorcerer is generally a very close relative, possibly even the husband, and sometimes the woman herself, especially when the ritual fails.
(8) The 90s saw a move into big-budget action – Armageddon, The Rock, Con Air – while today, thanks to a Disney deal, he's responsible for more family-oriented juggernauts: The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Prince Of Persia weren't enormous successes; the four Pirates Of The Caribbean films were.
(9) As well as playing Smaug, Cumberbatch is voicing the Necromancer, the evil Mirkwood sorcerer who is revealed in the Lord of the Rings to be the evil spirit Sauron.
(10) Iger could end up playing the role of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, serving under the tutelage of Jobs, the 21st-century conjuror who transforms every industry he touches.
(11) Under the influence of the Christian church, and because of the progress of modern medicine, the power of the sorcerers and healers gradually decreased.
(12) The plants are used by 3 principal practitioners: 1) curanderos (healers), who tend to specialize in the care of certain diseases; 2) herbalists, who use many of the materials used in traditional medicine; and 3) brujos, who are sorcerers and witches.
(13) 'Diviners', 'medicinemen', 'witches' and 'sorcerers' are defined and distinguished.
(14) The traditional providers are the traditional birth attendants, the folk healers, herbalists, faith healers, and the so-called witches and sorcerers, which are not treated in a derogatory manner in the Philippines.
(15) The early-evening crowd in this cosy central London pub have no idea that a sonic sorcerer stands in their midst.
(16) Isis decapitates its victims, just like our friends the Saudis – but again, they kill alleged “sorcerers” off-camera.
(17) The looming debut of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange , a key member of The Avengers in some of the original comic books, has also inspired speculation that the sorcerer supreme could eventually join the superhero team on the big screen.
(18) A powder prepared by Haitian voodoo sorcerers for the making of zombis was extracted with acetic acid, the extract concentrated and applied to a small cation exchange column followed by elution with water and then acetic acid.
(19) The Marvel universe’s sorcerer supreme is a figure expected to have a central role in the studio’s ambitious next wave of superhero movies.
(20) Doctor Strange, who first debuted in 1963, is a former neurosurgeon who protects the planet against magical and mystical threats in his role as Sorcerer Supreme.