What's the difference between diarist and ephemerist?

Diarist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who keeps a diary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More than 70,000 people died there, including teenage diarist Anne Frank.
  • (2) The Daily Mail's long-standing diarist John McEntee is also understood to be leaving that paper.
  • (3) · Simon James Holliday Gray, playwright, diarist and novelist, born October 21 1936; died August 6 2008
  • (4) After becoming wife and wife, the two intend to have wedding photographs at nearby Shibden Hall in Halifax, a 600-year-old timber-frame mansion that was once the home of Anne Lister, an early 19th-century Yorkshire landowner, industrialist, traveller and diarist who was also a lesbian.
  • (5) Twitter: @DerekNiemann • Badger watching: a beginner's guide The Guardian's former northern editor Martin Wainwright will chair a discussion of Country diary with diarists Mark Cocker and Derek Niemann and former editor Celia Locks at 11.30am on Saturday 15 November, as part of the sixth annual gathering of New Networks for Nature at Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire
  • (6) said "in many cases" diarists reported a good service was provided only after complaining, with some family members being forced to make numerous phone calls and to have a "constant battle" with agencies.
  • (7) This year, they are novelist Susan Hill, writer and journalist Matthew d'Ancona, political diarist Chris Mullin and Gaby Wood, head of books at the Telegraph .
  • (8) This is true of any decent diary, from the grumpily conservative Duke of Newcastle, whose obscure account of the passing of the Reform Act is a masterpiece of old reaction, to the outstanding diarists of the last century — crusty Tory MPs led by Chips Channon and Alan Clark, or Labour's Bernard Donoughue, chronicling the baroque mayhem of the later Wilson years.
  • (9) It happened to perish on the shore close to the estate owned by the diarist John Evelyn.
  • (10) "For the purposes of this article, Jo is my PA." A year later, I interviewed him and revealed in an article the story of the affair: "The girls from his office got drunk and told me what every tabloid diarist writer and showbiz reporter in the country apparently knew.
  • (11) Published in 1971, Tulsa is a diaristic chronicle in black and white of the lives of a bunch of wayward young people from the photographer's home town.
  • (12) In that case it was the Australian’s media diarist, Sharri Markson.
  • (13) The TV writer Sally Wainwright has confirmed she will not start writing the third series of the crime drama Happy Valley for at least a year, while she works on a show for the BBC about the Yorkshire diarist Anne Lister.
  • (14) Some autobiographic, diaristic or epi-stulographic dates to long-time illness until death are characterized by striking limited possibilities of self-description and verbalization in situations of vital-existential distress.
  • (15) The four will be pushed to the limit by Australia, while Purchase, a Guardian and Observer diarist , and Hunter have not had the smoothest of run-ins.
  • (16) The incongruity of anything being lucky in such a place strikes the diarist: "Strange, how in some way one always has the impression of being fortunate, how some chance happening, perhaps infinitesimal, stops us crossing the threshold of despair and allows us to live."
  • (17) For my next project I am writing about Anne Lister, the West Yorkshire diarist, who studied human anatomy in Paris in the 1820s among many other remarkable things, so what better place to research that?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Anne Lister.
  • (18) Pendennis , the Observer ’s diarist, was in Moscow at the same time, but Crankshaw’s anecdotes did not feature there either.
  • (19) Diarists keep watch – and allow future generations to wonder at the willfulness of humanity.
  • (20) Godfrey Bloom favours a nice bottle of red over nine pints Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hugh Muir Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian The Guardian’s former diarist Hugh Muir said that if it wasn’t for Ukip, there were some days when the paper wouldn’t have had a diary at all.

Ephemerist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets.
  • (n.) One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist.

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