What's the difference between dolor and ennui?

Dolor


Definition:

  • (n.) Pain; grief; distress; anguish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The party’s dolorous condition is confirmed by every poll that places them fifth in the national rankings, behind Ukip and the Greens.
  • (2) Positive cutaneous tests with coccidioidin (33.8%) and cryptococcin (31.9%) in Villa Dolores were obtained.
  • (3) "Education widows have been failed by the education system," says Dolores Dickson, executive director of girls' education organisation Camfed in Ghana.
  • (4) The injuries are mainly caused by the dolorous contact with the boom, by stumbling on board a ship and by jumping on the landing-stage.
  • (5) By means of starch gel electrophoresis, 16-20 loci coding for enzymes and hemoglobin have been investigated in six population samples of Akodon dolores, captured in a single site of the Córdoba province (Argentina) during a 3-year period and in three samples of an Akodon azarae population.
  • (6) Dolores Dooley Clarke describes how the course in medical ethics at University College, Cork is structured, how it has changed and how it is likely to change as time goes on.
  • (7) Dolores Piperno, who led the study at the archaeobiology laboratory at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, said the work showed Neanderthals were more sophisticated diners than many academics gave them credit for.
  • (8) A 28 year old female was admitted to the hospital with dolorous postprandial swelling of the left upper epigastrium, occurring since the recent death of her husband.
  • (9) Burke referred to Bishop as Dolores Umbridge, the Harry Potter character.)
  • (10) They are coming together because they know in unity is where ultimate victory lies," said Dolores Canales, co-founder of California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement .
  • (11) X-ray mammography as well as clinical criteria and anamnestic factors should be used for the diagnosis of breast abscesses (calor, rubor, tumor, dolor) and for the diagnosis of fat necrosis (surgery, trauma).
  • (12) In 1932, during the run of the musical on Broadway, he met and married Dolores Read, a nightclub singer, with whom he remained all his life; they adopted four children.
  • (13) Spain was one of the few countries where the governing party actually won the European elections, pointed out People's party president María Dolores de Cospedal.
  • (14) We've met him a number of times, and he'll listen to you, but his office is continuously locked,” said Dolores Huerta, a veteran labour leader and civil rights activist.
  • (15) Toledo city guide: what to see plus the best restaurants, tapas bars and hotels Read more Highlights might include a picnic of the best Iberian jamón, cheese and local wine in the courtyard of the 17th-century Cardinal’s House ( lacasadelcardenal.com ), now a high-end antique shop, or a stop at La Recova (Pasaje Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de San Juan 5, la recova.es ), a ceramics and secondhand shop with a cafe where locals linger over breakfasts of bread, tomatoes, crema (delicious flavoured lard) spreads and coffee – all for €2.20.
  • (16) F1 and backcross hybrids were produced between the Dolores and Candelaria stocks.
  • (17) Spare a thought, too, for the dolorous impact of Wednesday's developments on ordinary Afghans and rank-and-file western soldiers sent to assist them.
  • (18) Expanding on this in an interminable review of the Journal, James is baffled by the way that the "weakness" of these "furious névrosés" "appears to them a source of glory or even of dolorous general interest".
  • (19) This is no doubt why María Dolores de Cospedal, general secretary of the ruling Partido Popular (PP), recently boasted that its supporters "would go hungry" rather than fail to pay their mortgage.
  • (20) The diagnosis of a wound infection is made upon the classical symptoms dolor, rubor, calor, tumor and functio laesa and depends on continuous wound care and repeated clinical judgement.

Ennui


Definition:

  • (n.) A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (2) Best of the bunch is 2006’s Tempbot , which beautifully satirises the spirit-crushing ennui of office environments by imagining a robot struggling to connect with homo sapiens co-workers who often seem as bereft of humanity as he is.
  • (3) It is important that the spirit of rainbow nation is extracted from the ennui of an increasingly jaded and complacent African National Congress, which, as with so many post-liberation ruling parties, is in danger of losing its moral compass.
  • (4) Nonetheless, the utilitarian fiction of Mr Fairweather and His Family was a superb piece of socially useful work I treasure to this day and I remain eternally grateful to its titular and nonexistent, ennui-ridden antihero Mr Fairweather, the Josef K of prescriptive childcare literature, for normalising my early years.
  • (5) They have turned mealtimes into the focus of every ounce of existential angst and middle-class ennui they can muster.
  • (6) Allen became famous only four years ago, yet already she has the ennui of a jaded veteran.
  • (7) Paras Anand, head of European equities at Fidelity Worldwide Investment The ECB’s strategy has as many shortcomings as potential benefits and it is hard not to feel a sense of, if not disappointment, then ennui at today’s announcement.
  • (8) But then there was always the "faceless record button", and the fear of ennui.
  • (9) If the films are extended games of he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not between glamorous stars (including Marcello Mastroianni , Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon ), they also all share a sense of ennui and drift.
  • (10) Instead a combination of ennui at the ease of the group, added to fatigued resignation about England’s prospects when they get to France, conspired to rob Roy Hodgson of what should have been a moment of quiet triumph.
  • (11) Also showing will be Youth, an English-language drama directed by Paolo Sorrentino , featuring Michael Caine as an ageing composer plagued by ennui.
  • (12) And another example of Apple Maps inspired existential ennui: @ guardian It's decided the small town I live in is actually on a tiny deserted island 10 km west of here #iOS6maps — Tsana Dolichva (@Tsana_D) September 20, 2012 We'll be updating this blogpost as we receive further examples.
  • (13) She details whales banging their heads against their tanks and grinding their teeth on the walls, floors and bars until their teeth break or are worn to the pulp, allegedly because of boredom, frustration and ennui.
  • (14) Too many explosions, searching dead bodies for intelligence, hours of ennui and minutes of terror, lots of blood, holding the dying, all this and more had taken a toll.
  • (15) Occasionally we did so, although we often stumbled, as if out of ennui, against lesser sides.
  • (16) The opening sequence of Glue captures this ennui in unsettling, semi-hallucinatory fashion.
  • (17) Muscular and psychological rigidity, weariness, ennui and anhedonia may be the only clues to the presence of alexithymia.
  • (18) The effect is to induce a terrible ennui, a defeatist sense that, no matter how much evidence there is that something is unacceptable, we accept it anyway.
  • (19) The collection of sullen Keanu Reeves models is the work of Japanese company idk: "a remarkable instance of 3D mini ennui moving to the mass market," as 3Ders put it.
  • (20) And in those tiny moments of rest between the ennui of shadow cabinet meetings, there's a helpful spin doctor who can press a promotional copy of the Sun into your hands."

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