What's the difference between demonize and describe?

Demonize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.
  • (v. t.) To control or possess by a demon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The draw was enough to take England to the finals in Japan, where Beckham exorcised the demons of four years earlier by scoring the only goal (a dubiously awarded penalty) in the defeat of Argentina.
  • (2) Woods certainly appears to have exorcised the demons that have haunted him in recent years, after his world collapsed in spectacular circumstances four years ago.
  • (3) Not only did a Latino actor not play Tony, who clearly in real life looks like a Chicano, but his ethnicity is stolen from the Latino community at a time when Latinos have been demonized.
  • (4) Steve Hilton, a former ad man responsible for the Conservatives' disastrous "demon eyes" advert, and now the special adviser to Lord Saatchi, is the final member of the set's inner circle, though he lives in north London.
  • (5) There was a feeling that the mainstream was fighting back against the rightwing obstructionists who were trying to demonize Rabin and undermine the peace process.
  • (6) In any period, however, there seem to have been marked individual and cultural differences in outlook; some of these differences are still evident today in the survival of belief in demonic possession in pentecostal sects.
  • (7) Understandably so, since we’re talking about ice demons who can command zombie hordes.
  • (8) The effects of such actions – presidential demonizing, threats of legal reprisal – are pernicious.
  • (9) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
  • (10) Bill Nighy plays the king of the demons; Miranda Otto the gargoyle queen.
  • (11) Bowie was tanned, healthy, seemingly at peace with his demons.
  • (12) This arena was the scene of Bayern nightmares last May, when Chelsea pipped them to Europe's most glittering crown and, suddenly, the demons of the past threatened to encircle them.
  • (13) This fateful development took place in a milieu of belief in demons fostered by the priests and uncritical rejection of medico-scientific treatment methods.
  • (14) A remarkable step, whose intent must be recognized, through Trump’s now established demonizing of the press, as intimidation.
  • (15) An attack on Syria or Iran or any other US "demon" would draw on a fashionable variant, "Responsibility to Protect", or R2P – whose lectern-trotting zealot is the former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans , co-chair of a " global centre " based in New York.
  • (16) The demons that came with density were more obvious back then: the cholera epidemic; the fact that just as cities sped the flow of ideas, so they sped the flow of disease, too; the crime that was so associated with Victorian London .
  • (17) It was dark, but I could see my silhouette in the mirror and I stared to see if I was looking at a demon instead of Dan's mother.
  • (18) This discovered gothic quality within everyday life found one of its finest expressions in the American work of French-born director Jacques Tourneur , especially the brilliant Cat People (1943), Curse of the Cat People (1944) and Night of the Demon (1957).
  • (19) The Demon hardly ever gives interviews, but a Russian journalist and I managed to secure one, so we set off last Thursdayto visit his headquarters in the town of Gorlovka, a 40-minute drive along deserted roads from the regional capital of Donetsk.
  • (20) "One person will try and cast out demons, the other will take you through a 12-step programme.

Describe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.
  • (v. t.) To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.
  • (v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
  • (v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (3) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (4) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
  • (5) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (6) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
  • (7) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
  • (8) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
  • (9) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
  • (10) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (11) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
  • (12) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
  • (13) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
  • (14) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
  • (15) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
  • (16) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
  • (17) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
  • (18) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
  • (19) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
  • (20) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.

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