What's the difference between enchantment and malefice?

Enchantment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation.
  • (n.) The effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment.
  • (n.) That which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or highly delights.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (2) Not everyone was enchanted by Burgess: Edward Crankshaw, for instance, was typical of the 1950s Observer .
  • (3) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
  • (4) Nor should the seal boat rides, which are every bit as enchanting for adults as they are for children.
  • (5) "Right now we're enchanted with it, but … talk to us after another year.
  • (6) Kent provides an attractive landscape, but not outstandingly so; low-lying mists can seem enchanting one moment, threatening the next.
  • (7) In the preface to another story, "The Snow Image", he described this sense of occlusion as he "sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible through the tangling depths of my obscurity".
  • (8) Marion Cotillard looks amazing in her selection of cocktail shift dresses in Woody Allen's time-travel comedy Midnight in Paris , while Bérénice Bejo, enchants in cloche hats and flapper dresses in silent-era pastiche The Artist .
  • (9) While the Lego and Hornby train-filled Wonderland was crammed with small boys intent on destruction on the Guardian's visit this week, the Enchanted Forest, with fairy voices emanating from multicoloured flowers and hundreds of dolls, was the main draw for girls.
  • (10) "I am left with only memories now, wonderful memories which fill me with pride, and I feel truly enchanted to have spent my life knowing him."
  • (11) The steel columns that support the enchanting green roof of this parkland pavilion are so thin, they must be held in tension by long wire cables.
  • (12) Agni Taverna is an ordinary restaurant, albeit with enchanting views to the mountains of Albania and a friendly black and white cat.
  • (13) In the Odyssey , Circe warns Odysseus against the Sirens "who enchant all who come near them".
  • (14) So have young people for whom Blair is history (wicked history at that), enchanted by the campaign’s fervour.
  • (15) 360 degrees of enchantment and the highlight of our South African holiday.
  • (16) • Where to stay: Encanto da Lua , meaning The Moon's Enchantment, is just a short walk from the pools and ringside for the rising of the moon (standard doubles from R$ 230,00 (£70) a night, including breakfast, dinner and transfers).
  • (17) Highlight: Her enchanting Hansel and Gretel magic forest in biscuit week and being crowned first star baker of the series for her Jaffa orange cakes.
  • (18) Entrance to the park is free, combined entrance to the villa and the Casa delle Civette €10, free for EU citizens under-18s or over-65s Santa Costanza Santa Costanza Photograph: Alamy This enchanting circular chapel dates to the middle of the 4th century AD and is the earliest church in the city surviving more or less in its original form, with exquisite mosaics covering much of the ceiling.
  • (19) Patience (After Sebald) will be screened on Friday at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, as part of After Sebald: Place and Re-Enchantment, a weekend exploration of WG Sebald's work.
  • (20) Aside from the opportunities this rewilding presents for re-enchanting our lives, experience elsewhere in Europe suggests that eco-tourism has a far higher potential for employment, for supporting communities, for keeping the schools and shops and pubs and chapels open than sheep farming does.

Malefice


Definition:

  • (n.) An evil deed; artifice; enchantment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maleficent, Disney's latest film out on 28 May, offers the untold back story of the villain from the 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty, with Jolie in the title role.
  • (2) The choice of when and how to use behavioral interventions and the implications of these choices may present the nurse with certain ethical dilemmas related to ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and maleficence.
  • (3) But Maleficent still took a respectable $22m at the Chinese box office after Jolie, husband Brad Pitt and several of their children shared a birthday cake with a crowd in Shanghai and took lessons in making dim sum.
  • (4) The question of beneficence and non-maleficence must first be related to the individual and only second to the society.
  • (5) "Maleficent is actually someone who I did in the end like.
  • (6) Maleficent also features Juno Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites, India Eisley, Miranda Richardson and Kenneth Cranham, none of whom are thought to be related to Jolie.
  • (7) Forbes included her upfront fee for Disney fantasy Maleficent in their 2013 calculations, pushing her down a few spaces in this year's chart.
  • (8) Hollywood enjoyed a decisive victory in its campaign to conquer China last week when US-made films – Godzilla , Angelina Jolie's Maleficent , Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow , X-Men: Days of Future Past and Grace of Monaco – took the five top box-office slots in the country.
  • (9) Maleficent is the latest in a torrent of Hollywood remakes of children's fantasy stories, with two Snow White films hitting cinemas in the past year and several new takes on The Wizard of Oz being developed.
  • (10) Maleficent, directed by Robert Stromberg, is due to arrive in cinemas in March 2014.
  • (11) Here he outlines several types of circumstances in which medical paternalism is morally justified based on the Hippocratic principles of medical beneficence and non-maleficence.
  • (12) "Angelina Jolie's daughter Vivienne will play a minor role as the child version of Princess Aurora opposite her mother in Maleficent," Disney said in a statement.
  • (13) Health risk communication is discussed in respect to four principles of biomedical ethics: (1) autonomy, the need to protect confidentiality and provide decision-making information; (2) beneficence, an obligation to inform and to develop trust; (3) non-maleficence, not covering up study findings, not over- or underinterpreting data; and (4) justice, helping place risk in proper perspective.
  • (14) Placebo treatment is discussed from deontological and utilitarianist points of view, and violation of the ethical principles, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, autonomy and truth-telling, are considered.
  • (15) Photograph: Disney Naturally, there is more chance of Cinderella retaining her slipper than Maleficent cropping up among the Palme d'Or contenders.
  • (16) Angelina Jolie's four-year-old daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt is to join her mother in the Disney fantasy Maleficent, the studio has officially confirmed .
  • (17) These legal conditions for detention conflict with the ethical principles of autonomy, non-maleficence and beneficence and by compromising ethical principles result in inadequate clinical standards.
  • (18) Film revenues rose a healthy 15% period on period thanks to several big-budget productions including Disney's Maleficent, Marvel's Thor: The Dark World, Fast and Furious 6 and Skyfall.
  • (19) This question is discussed in the light of four ethical principles: justice, beneficence, non-maleficence and respect for autonomy.
  • (20) The criterion of maleficence for a patient, is defined in its real and ethical, individual, general and time contexts.

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