What's the difference between circumspect and illustrious?

Circumspect


Definition:

  • (a.) Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) General anaesthesia with apneic oxygenation may offer the ENT surgeon increased possibilities of exploration and operation at the level of the larynx and trachea, but owing to its biological consequences, it should be used only with circumspection and its indications should be totally justified, for acts of limited duration.
  • (2) Although internal fixation in one stage as an emergency, is ideal in all fractures, one should in fact be circumspect for the danger of infection should lead one to avoid carrying out internal fixation if this is not absolutely necessary.
  • (3) But other veterans of the liberation struggle were less circumspect.
  • (4) Splenectomy therefore should be regarded with circumspection in the management of patients with spur cell hemolytic anemia.
  • (5) Those who argue that extra government spending today could prove as beneficial as in the 1930s still want safeguards and a little circumspection.
  • (6) His recent speeches show he is now more circumspect.
  • (7) Ferguson strove to unsettle City beforehand with a calculated outburst over the allegedly vainglorious streak in the people who run City but earlier still in the week he had suggested circumspectly that these opponents are bound to win a trophy in due course.
  • (8) Perhaps such mistakes are unsurprising: much of the letter was cut and pasted verbatim, without acknowledgement or circumspection, from a document published by an anti-windfarm group called Country Guardian.
  • (9) Why it should concern them is probably the subject of some disagreement … they’ve been quite circumspect.
  • (10) The Arab spring has had its impact in Gaza, although confrontation with the territory's rulers is more circumspect in part because, unlike the now-defunct regimes across the Arab world, Hamas won an open election.
  • (11) One of his more cautious colleagues, the engineer who helped the Atomic Energy Authority test what happened when a train travelling at 100 miles a hour crashed into a flask of nuclear waste, is a little more circumspect.
  • (12) Unless bombing is used circumspectly as a tool to bring Houthis to the negotiating table, it is unlikely to have any positive impact on the situation in Yemen.
  • (13) While Sagrans is circumspect in discussing Obama’s record – “I don’t think it’s so much what he has done, more what Warren is really going to fight for” – a post on Wimsatt’s blog in 2010 was more critical.
  • (14) As the crowd took a much-needed breather and the game entered its last 10 minutes, Santos finally made his first concession to circumspection, replacing Nani with an extra defensive anchor in Porto’s Danilo Pereira, knowing that a point would see his side through come what may.
  • (15) His circumspection might derive in part from his background; like Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly, two artists with whom Johns has much in common, he grew up in the south at a time when those with artistic aspirations were advised to suppress them.
  • (16) It’s true, the OBR has been very circumspect in its forecast.
  • (17) Advances in chemical, numerical, and molecular systematic methods have contributed greatly to the circumspection of the rhodococci, including the development of diagnostic fluoregenic probes for improved biochemical profiling and identification.
  • (18) The City would be more circumspect about openly bankrolling the Conservatives if it thought there was a possibility that Labour might win the next election.
  • (19) Of course we should be circumspect about fiscal intentions and suspicious about spending plans.
  • (20) Those charities who are too circumspect, those who have too many overly-cautious trustees who don't want to rock the boat and those who become too cosy with governments of any stripe, diminish their own purpose and threaten their existence.

Illustrious


Definition:

  • (a.) Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid.
  • (a.) Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished.
  • (a.) Conferring luster or honor; renowned; as, illustrious deeds or titles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As illustrious as some of the names are on the list below, Unions work democratically, by majority vote.
  • (2) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
  • (3) It has this very illustrious record of people who attended but didn't graduate, including Anne Hathaway, Jackie Onassis and Jane Fonda.
  • (4) The effects of 5 pregnane compounds isolated from the rhizomes of Mandevilla illustris were examined against bradykinin (BK), Lysyl-bradykinin (L-BK), acetylcholine (ACh) and oxytocin (Ot)-induced contractions in the isolated uteri of the rat.
  • (5) Instead, Conservative ministers want to tell new migrants that Britain is "historically" a Christian country with a "long and illustrious history".
  • (6) This was a time when the publication of an anthology launched under the council's auspices was hardly calculated to produce favour- able reviews, however illustrious the editor.
  • (7) In this context it is easy to see why Fomenko is seen by many as a conservative coach – very similar, in fact, to his illustrious mentor Valeriy Lobanovskiy.
  • (8) Only Bradford in 2003 and St Helens in 2006 had won the domestic treble before, but Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock and Kylie Leuluai ended their rugby league careers by ensuring Leeds became the third member of this most illustrious club.
  • (9) While Horatio is one of an increasing number of children born using a sibling as a sperm donor, there is a good chance that none so far shares his illustrious name.
  • (10) For your amazing, illustrious career of defying stereotypes – and most of all, for showing how to best use Twitter and shut up trolls who still have not learned that – shocker!
  • (11) The Scot Craig Ferguson recently completed a long and illustrious stint on CBS’s The Late Late Show , while Birmingham-born John Oliver’s regular appearances on The Daily Show have earned him his own HBO slot hosting Last Week Tonight and Londoner James Corden has just boosted ratings at the wheel of The Late Late Show .
  • (12) Brentford had dominated their more illustrious neighbours but it looked as though the goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli’s heroics and Hugo Rodallega’s eye for goal would leave them empty-handed.
  • (13) The lack of profit has not deterred a string of illustrious backers.
  • (14) Google’s illustrious founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, sagely stated that “since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious”.
  • (15) Perhaps, those who had an illustrious career as footballers visualise the future more clearly but it wasn’t my case.
  • (16) Just as that penalty incident happened by the way, my illustrious editor stopped fanning himself to tweet: Steve Busfield (@Busfield) Note for @timewarnercable : TV picture-in-picture box too central to watch #RSLvLA AND #PORvSEA #firstworldproblems @KidWeil @Paolo_Bandini November 8, 2013 4.58am GMT 34 mins More Portland pressure (must get keyboard macro for that phrase), but finally Seattle get another look at goal as Demspey touches the ball to Eddie Johnson, whose shot is deflected just over for a corner.
  • (17) Four of the style business's most illustrious names had become involved and at least one fashion journalist was referring to it as "trousergate".
  • (18) There was a foul on our player in the build up to the goal.” Wright-Phillips clearly revels in ruffling illustrious feathers – he has now scored in each of the three Hudson River derby fixtures and his 10 th of the season ensured Kreis’ side were always chasing the game.
  • (19) It is said that Andreotti, when watching it, momentarily lost his temper, then admitted that the film was aesthetically remarkable, but that the suggestion that he was somehow responsible for many of the "illustrious corpses" of the First Republic was ludicrous – a fair reaction.
  • (20) Among the members of its staff have been some of the first and most illustrious ophthalmologists--those whose discoveries, teachings and writings have contributed to the foundation and development of ophthalmology.