What's the difference between edgy and tremulous?

Edgy


Definition:

  • (a.) Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
  • (a.) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Garfield has a history of making interesting choices and a knack for using his edgy watchfulness to steal scenes from some of the best actors in the business.
  • (2) With the unprecedented riches offered by next season’s top tier television deal at stake, it proved a slightly strange, decidedly edgy, game.
  • (3) And his art is always edgy – a bit worrying, getting a bit under your skin.
  • (4) The softly-spoken but determined champion, born in Bow and raised in Limerick, brought quiet menace and the threat of a dramatic finish; Saunders, the challenger, all energy and edgy aggression, had come for a night of educated boxing.
  • (5) A taxi driver called a tipoff line after he recognised a group of difficult clients from that morning, unusually edgy about handling their large suitcases.
  • (6) The result was Doll By Doll, dominated by Leven, whom I described at the time as "a mixture of Van Morrison and a psychopath", but who could mix edgy, brooding rock songs, such as Butcher Boy, with stirring, lyrical Celtic soul, including the exquisite Main Travelled Roads.
  • (7) "It's more contrived in terms of 'good girl gone bad' or 'I'm so edgy – I'm twerking in this context.'
  • (8) Fodi’s liberal audience pay to hear career radicals speak about “dangerous” subjects during “edgy” debates, but turn a blind eye to the unethical practices that events such as the Fodi and the Biennale inevitably cover up.
  • (9) Barclays bankers were engulfed in a culture of "edginess" and had a "winning at all costs" attitude which raised tensions with regulators and damaged its reputation, according to a review into the ethics of the embattled bank.
  • (10) Or some edgy comic business relating to abortion, or menstruation?
  • (11) We got a little bit edgy in the second half, that’s probably more down to the situation we find ourselves in.
  • (12) Capaldi admitted that a little of Malcolm Tucker, his foul-mouthed political aide in satirical series The Thick of It, had crept into his Doctor, meaning he was a little more "edgy, volatile and dangerous".
  • (13) It surely helped her reputation as much as her life that she was brave, robust, loyal, edgy, and a survivor.
  • (14) When Scotland got their goal back it could have been a bit edgy, but we responded fantastically and it was very special for me to score two goals for England in Scotland at Celtic Park.” Gordon Strachan admitted his players had been “spooked” by England’s energetic opening as they slipped to only a second defeat in 11 games to douse some of the optimism generated by Friday’s victory over the Republic of Ireland .
  • (15) "The comics who are more surrealist, abstract, or edgy – that's never going to work on Live at the Apollo," says Perrin.
  • (16) The influence of the Forest Fringe – the festival's free, even more eccentric wing – could be discerned in the rise of edgy new venues such as Summerhall , the space curated by Battersea Arts Centre .
  • (17) The US government runs out of borrowing headroom in under nine days time, and investors are now getting more edgy about what happens at one minute to midnight on October 17th .
  • (18) Their 'hipster' children who have only ever lived through the era of neo-con politics find these environments stultifying and conventional and long for something more edgy, urban and cool-'authentic' places where poor folk live, that make them feel daring and adventurous.
  • (19) Nor is there any dispute that this is dark and edgy TV.
  • (20) The old failings were becoming sorely evident and Tottenham fed off the edginess.

Tremulous


Definition:

  • (a.) Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.
  • (a.) Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The increased tremulousness of addicted infants remained through at least the first month of life.
  • (2) Greater motor unit synchronization with increasing tremor amplitude in EPT may be secondary to a simultaneous increase in muscle spindle afferent activity from the tremulous muscle.
  • (3) 7. the entity of opsoclonus, body tremulousness, and benign encephalitis has to be differentiated from other syndromes including the sign opsoclonus by recording the EEG and EOG during the course of the disease; this might lead to very useful diagnostic and prognostic information.
  • (4) Compared to infants of non-ill mothers and infants of ill nonmedicated mothers, infants whose mothers received antipsychotic drugs--particularly those in the phenothiazine family--showed a stable pattern of poor neonatal motor functioning that included tremulousness, hypertonicity, and poor motor maturity.
  • (5) Patients with cerebellar disease may exhibit tremulous phonation as part of their dysarthria.
  • (6) Severe withdrawal symptoms such as tremulousness, irritability, increased psychomotor activity, generalized muscle cramps, photophobia, retro-orbital pains and insomnia are described.
  • (7) Their age at onset ranged from 40 to 74 years and all the five cases had histories of finger injury, including amputation in four cases, followed by insidious onset of tremulous movement at the same site of the trauma during the period between two months and 36 years.
  • (8) Because of this potential for injury, it is suggested that matings between carriers of tremulous neurological disorders and carriers of mutations that result in lack of down cover be avoided whenever possible.
  • (9) Additionally, state observations and NBAS-K exams showed significant agreement on individual differences in neurologically based measures, such as startles, tremulousness, and lability of state.
  • (10) Withdrawal from alcohol (ethanol, ethyl alcohol) or other general sedatives leads to progressive hyperactivity that progresses from tremulousness, sleep disturbance, and hallucinosis, to the more serious rum fits and delirium tremens (DTs).
  • (11) A nonintoxicating oral dose of 1,3-butanediol at 4 grams per kilogram administered after elimination of ethanol from the blood was effective against the tremulous and conbulsive components of the ethanol withdrawal syndrome in all animals for 1 to 5 hours.
  • (12) Free, free as the sunshine trickling down the morning into these high windows of mine, free as yonder fresh young voices welling up to me from the caverns of brick and mortar below – swelling with song, instinct with life, tremulous treble and darkening bass.” A signature sentence “If it is true that there are an appreciable number of Negro youth in the land capable by character and talent to receive that higher training, the end of which is culture, and if the two-and-a-half thousand who have had something of this training in the past have in the main proved themselves useful to their race and generation, the question then comes, What place in the future development of the South ought the Negro college and college-bred man to occupy?” Three to compare Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (1952) James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time (1963) Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father (1995) • The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois is published by Yale University Press (£7.99).
  • (13) Infants with IVH demonstrated more abnormalities in mental status and a cluster of abnormal neurologic findings (persistent ankle clonus, tremulousness, and brisk deep tendon reflexes).
  • (14) Nine of these patients also experienced a tremulous voice associated with evidence of an essential tremor (ET) elsewhere, including head, trunk and limbs.
  • (15) The tremulous form of Parkinson's disease generally leads to less motor impairment than the rigid-akinetic form.
  • (16) This was characterized by confusion, tremulousness, clumsiness, myoclonic jerks, and an inability to walk.
  • (17) Residual tremulous movements after thalamotomy were examined using an accelerometer and EMG.
  • (18) Various types of tremor-provoking procedures were performed and the tremulous movements were classified according to the pattern of modificiation by these procedures.
  • (19) The relapsing course, association with myoclonus or tremulousness, and episodes of stroke-like deterioration are characteristic features.
  • (20) Twenty-four of forty-four (55%) mice neonates inoculated intracranially with NE-MuLV developed symptoms ranging from tremulousness to hindlimb paralysis within 3-9 months.