What's the difference between electrifying and resounding?

Electrifying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Electrify

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Routes from London to Oxford and between Manchester, Preston, Blackpool and Liverpool will be electrified by 2016.
  • (2) "This has electrified the country," said the Republican senate leader Mitch ­McConnell, of Kentucky.
  • (3) An increasing barrier technique was used to measure how much of an average stimulus (cresssing an electrified grid) a female was willing to endure to gain contact with sexually active male.
  • (4) It was left to Americans Michael Moore (at the Roundhouse in London in 2002) and Doug Stanhope to remind us that speaking truth to power can equal electrifying standup.
  • (5) The Northern Hub will provide electrified track and new stretches of railway over the next five years, radiating out from Greater Manchester , to allow faster connections between stations from Chester and Liverpool to Bradford and Leeds, cutting out some of the gridlock around Manchester Piccadilly.
  • (6) His presence might not electrify the O2 Arena, and he's not that hot at soundbites, like Blair and Thatcher, but look where those two got us.
  • (7) A moment later he was teed up by Ruud van Nistelrooy and his electrifying shot was palmed over the bar by Arsenal's German keeper.
  • (8) In daily 10-minute sessions, water deprived rats were trained to drink from a tube that was occasionally electrified (0.25 mA), electrification being signalled by a tone.
  • (9) "Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit.
  • (10) Berlusconi's remarks, combined with allegations at the weekend of a colossal slush fund at a bank traditionally close to the left, looked set to electrify a hitherto lacklustre campaign.
  • (11) Ghani's transformation has electrified an election campaign that many had expected to be a two-way race between a Karzai-backed candidate and the president's main rival from 2009, Abdullah Abdullah.
  • (12) You won’t know till you’ve slogged up several floors, got lost twice, been flagged down by precisely the person you were trying to avoid, and finally arrived at an apparently electrifying session that nonetheless finished ten minutes early.
  • (13) These are the equations of light, the mathematical relationships that showed us how to electrify our world and transmit energy and information through the air.
  • (14) In a single session, naive female 250-g Wistar rats were trained to remain for 3 min on a platform located above an electrifiable grid.
  • (15) These works electrified France's art world, even if Calle had not originally conceived them as art.
  • (16) Tyrie said amendments tabled by the government on Monday to "electrify" the ringfence that banks are required to set up to keep high street operations separate from investment banking were "virtually useless".
  • (17) In 10 electrifying days that haul has been more than doubled.
  • (18) Thursday was in many ways the most electrifying of all Britain's golden days at Greenwich – a final tally of three golds, silver and bronze exceeds expectations.
  • (19) A similar display of democracy in Richmond Park would electrify the campaign.
  • (20) He tossed Shakespeare into a modern-day, thinly veiled Miami in the electrifying Romeo + Juliet and sent Nicole Kidman wafting, purring and simpering through bohemian Paris in Moulin Rouge!

Resounding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resound

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity.
  • (2) Nor – despite today's declaration that the three-day meeting had been a resounding success – was there more than patchy progress.
  • (3) Promising to tear up bailout agreements that had created a “humanitarian crisis”, Syriza surged to a resounding victory .
  • (4) 10.03am: This from Hiraldo_TIFC, one of the Guardian Fans' Network members: Jürgen Klinsmann speaking about the process of Germany's revival in the last 6 years , worthwhile read #worldcup #GER 10.13am: Below the line, ChuckSchick asks: "Would a resounding German World Cup win, coupled with an impressive CL run by Bayern lead to greater Bundesliga coverage on UK television?
  • (5) This case resoundingly illustrates that the strength of our Program is not limited only to testing.
  • (6) He used a set of figures purporting to show high weekend death-rates that have since been resoundingly rubbished by health statisticians.
  • (7) A Guardian poll in August 2013 produced a resounding no vote on quotas for UK parliamentarians .
  • (8) That is a resounding rebuke for Berlusconi -- whose efforts to unseat Letta appear to have turned sour.
  • (9) At the end of the night guests voted a resounding 'yes' to supporting the campaign.
  • (10) Feed-in tariffs for solar panels – where the government pays people for creating their own renewable energy – have been a resounding success, but the government now intends to cut them back, a decision that has led to legal action from solar companies.
  • (11) The almost certain resounding no to the alternative vote shows clearly that the voters think otherwise.
  • (12) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
  • (13) Our current answer is not a resounding “No!” It’s a slightly interrogatively inflected “Probably not”, which is hardly a ringing endorsement of the health of American civilisation.
  • (14) But his resounding 4,091 majority delivered David Cameron a key marginal.
  • (15) Otherwise, the narrative will proceed to its inevitable denouement: a resounding Labour defeat in 2010.
  • (16) The astonishing popularity of the “rock-star economist ” is itself a resounding testament to our concern for inequality.
  • (17) Jubilant Republicans declared the US election race back on Thursday, calling Mitt Romney's resounding victory over Barack Obama in the first of the presidential debates a "game changer".
  • (18) Lionel Messi scored within three minutes of returning to action for the first time in more than three weeks to help fire Barcelona to a resounding 4-0 home win over Deportivo La Coruña .
  • (19) There is much evidence to suggest voters will resoundingly reject Corbynism in its current form if he makes it to the next election.
  • (20) As the Tory cheers resounded at the end of the budget speech, standing at the back was the diminished figure of Boris Johnson, wearing the look of a man that knew his future rival had set the bar somewhere he has never been in politics.

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