What's the difference between comfortably and ensconce?
Comfortably
Definition:
(adv.) In a comfortable or comforting manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) All the patients told about a comfortable feeling of warmth after each treatment lasting for one two days.
(3) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(4) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(5) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(6) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(7) "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," said Zuckerberg in 2010 during an intense few months as controversy raged over the complexity of Facebook's privacy settings.
(8) Consoles are even more widespread in Japan, of course, but for many, finding the time and space to play in comfort is tricky.
(9) Until the bell, 19-year-old Lizzie Armitstead figured strongly in a leading group of 12 that at one point enjoyed a two-minute lead, racing comfortably alongside the Olympic time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong.
(10) The team working together helps the patient receive maximum benefits from treatment and to live more comfortably with his disease.
(11) In a practical sense, it seems reasonable to establish the maxillomandibular relationship with the patient in a comfortable position.
(12) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
(13) Effectiveness of a relaxation technique to increase the comfort level of patients in their first postoperative attempt at getting out of bed was tested on 42 patients, aged 18 to 65, who were hospitalized for elective surgery.
(14) The comforts of home will determine Liverpool's fate in 2014, according to Brendan Rodgers, and they made a convincing start against Hull City.
(15) The country's priority now, he added, was to "comfort and care for people who have lived through a nightmare which very few of us can imagine".
(16) A backrest adds to the comfort and support of the subject performing resistive knee exercise and should be incorporated into the design of knee exercise units.
(17) The development of a shear transducer, small enough to be worn comfortably under a normal foot, is described, along with a microcomputer controlled data logger.
(18) I still feel that I am standing behind the chair and it is someone else sat there, and I’m just reading over their shoulder.” He hopes life becomes a little more comfortable.
(19) He casts his history of bipartisan negotiation as a form of steamrolling practicality, and many of his actual policies, save regarding gun control, fit comfortably within the far right framework.
(20) It was concluded that preparation to lie down, lying-down movements and comfort behaviour are suitable for the study of relationships between the use of electric cow-trainers and impaired health in cows.
Ensconce
Definition:
(v. t.) To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have a personal interest in the revelations about Pakistan, which highlight what many of us have long feared: that contrary to assurances from Pakistan's leaders, the US is fully ensconced, with bases and special forces, that there have been unreported civilian deaths and that the unwinnable war in Afghanistan is spilling over the border into its weak, corrupt and nuclear neighbour.
(2) Most of the cast themselves became cosily ensconced in the establishment with unseemly haste.
(3) Set six years after the conclusion of Pride and Prejudice , the novel finds Elizabeth and Darcy happily ensconced at Pemberley: tending to the estate and its tenants, delighting in their two young sons, deeply in love.
(4) From Obama's perspective, it gave the president and his newly ensconced secretary of state, John Kerry, a rare chance to point to real achievement .
(5) Before Dylan and Jagger cut the ribbon to open our bourgeois-friendly field, Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer of the Incredible String Band had already snuck in and were happily ensconced in a far corner that few have visited since.
(6) As leader of the main opposition in the country on the frontline of Europe's debt drama, Tsipras is now ensconced in an elegant office on the ground floor of the Greek parliament, a former royal palace that looks on to Syntagma Square, the theatre for the robust rallies that have rocked Athens over the past three years.
(7) Safely ensconced inside Television Centre, surrounded by scripts, film posters and other cultural curiosities, Hadlow's office resembles a modern-day boudoir for the intellectually enlightened.
(8) Like his 16 family members, and almost every other Afghan ensconced under the mulberry trees of Athens’ Victoria Square, his motto is “move, move, move”.
(9) But he insists that even in this post-election postmortem period, it’s not too soon to start laying the foundations of a new Labour economic policy, which he says must focus on rebuilding British productivity, which has stagnated since the crisis: “This isn’t for me just a period to tread water.” And while the opinion polls may have allowed him and his colleagues to cherish the hope that they would be ensconced in the corridors of the Treasury by now, he concedes that as the election campaign got under way, “in our hearts we knew there were things that hadn’t been properly gripped and addressed”.
(10) And at the same time, she ensconced herself within a small network of other Twitter users who supported her, agreed with her, and perhaps gave her a sense of identity and importance as a figurehead campaigning for what she believed was justice for Madeleine.
(11) Once ensconced in private, the politicians and corporate lobbyists are asked to decide which legislation they want to prioritize.
(12) Tony Abbott hints at taking fight to Isis in Syria amid pressure to help country's refugees Read more “Many of these people have been very safely ensconced, working and housed in places like Turkey for many years,” Bernardi told the Senate on Monday.
(13) However, as members of the group, such as Yorke , Jonny Greenwood and Selway - who is touring his new album Weatherhouse throughout February - have been ensconced in various solo ventures, it was uncertain whether the band would have time to reconvene for a Radiohead album.
(14) Disgraced clergy often live comfortably ensconced in respectable or even prestigious church posts, basking in the glory and grandeur that accompany their exalted positions in places like Rome.
(15) By the shallow standards of most political discourse in the media, the interview between Vice-President Joe Biden and newly ensconced talkshow host Stephen Colbert on Thursday night was an extraordinary moment of television that could yet prove a defining moment of the 2016 election race.
(16) Pubertal pathology in which the fantasies about physical bisexuality remain ensconced can make working through psychical bisexuality a more arduous task.
(17) Second, there was a long span from Truman's stewardship to that of Carter, characterized by ensconcement of, and accretions to, FDR's model and by an acceptance of the vastly augmented role of the federal government in American society.
(18) Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and White Cube owner Jay Jopling are apparently ensconced in an undisclosed VVIP section.
(19) "Take it from me – the cherry fizz is fantastic," says S, ensconced in an armchair with her seven-year-old when I arrive on this freezing Saturday night.
(20) Abrams, 46, ensconced in palatial splendour in the penthouse suite of a fancy central London hotel, turns out to be a likably fresh-faced individual, and professes himself only slightly baffled as to how well things have gone.