(a.) Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings highlight limitations of the data supplied and suggest that the usefulness of this enviable and unique data source could be enhanced if the medical profession took greater care in clearly stating an International Classification of Diseases diagnosis in a patient's hospital record.
(2) It will, he believes, be impossible to find a candidate who is both qualified and willing to take on the best-paid, least-enviable job in Whitehall.
(3) The Beastie Boys alienated their frat-boy fan base with the radical boho stylings of 1989's Paul's Boutique but bought themselves enviable credibility and long-term success in the process.
(4) Former FA technical director Wilkinson has a long-standing interest in youth development and coaching, while Gradi remains director of football and director of the academy at Crewe Alexandra, where he has a long and enviable record of developing talent.
(5) Twelve days on, however, he claimed the team had moved on, has an enviable array of attacking options available and a camaraderie epitomised by Falcao’s and Perea’s decision to accompany the squad in Brazil.
(6) Löw has an enviable squad to choose players from, although he does not have a natural striker to call upon.
(7) During the past decade, Enders has built up an enviable reputation for outspoken and contrarian analysis of the prospects for technology, telecoms and media across Europe.
(8) It was the end of the last of a string of enviable careers.
(9) Menzel, who brings an anxious intensity to a featherweight part, has an enviable fan base among young female audiences.
(10) Lawson insisted her lifestyle was "normal" and that while the enviable kitchen on her TV show was not her own, those were definitely her real children darting in and out of the room, scoffing down ricotta cakes with grilled radicchio baked by their picture-perfect mother.
(11) Burning with energy, blessed with an enviably able new leader, the SNP feels like the party of most Labour activists’ secret dreams.
(12) Her face, under a drift of honeyed hair, has a bright, open glow to it; the smile that beams out of her campaign literature is enviably natural.
(13) Caribou – Our Love Canadian producer Dan Snaith has cut an enviably idiosyncratic path through dance music in recent years, both as Caribou and in his more dancefloor-friendly guise Daphni.
(14) He had enviably thick hair and, as he opened the door to let me in, I noticed an orange kitten positioned on the floor beside a Dalmatian puppy.
(15) Because womenswear can be fabulous, gorgeous, weird, ridiculous, breathtaking, game-changing, enviable, exciting, desirable, wonderful.
(16) If the talks succeed, Wilders will be in the enviable position of wielding power while abjuring responsibility.
(17) Eton College , where David Cameron and several others in his government were schooled, is not shy of broadcasting the enviably superb facilities it provides for its 1,300 boys, in return for £34,434 a year if parents are paying full fees.
(18) Why,” the anthropologist asked a wise woman of the tribe, “why are all your songs so short?” And the wise woman replied: “Our songs are all so short because we know so much.” In other words, the experience of living as a single people in a single place, where each new generation follows the same old paths – such an experience produced a wonderful, enviable confidence about the reliability and the knowability of the world.
(19) Knitting and sewing take place at its Los Angeles HQ, and it boasts an enviable benefits package for its workers (on the flipside, CEO Dov Charney has been dogged by accusations of alleged sexual harassment, which throws up its own ethical quandaries).
(20) Smith generated an enviable rapport with his audience through public appearances to promote the movies.
Jealousy
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I also feel a niggling strain of jealousy, even resentment, that it wasn't as easy for me the first time around as it is today for many people.
(2) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
(3) A survey was administered to assess the differences between friends and romantics regarding the experience and expression of jealousy.
(4) And this naturally provokes envy and jealousy.” Asked when they fell out, Blatter said: “It was after he was elected Uefa president in 2007.
(5) There is a degree of solidarity, but is has to be nuanced because even within families, you have this sense of jealousy, and the levelling concept.
(6) Organic brain performance deficits and disturbances of sexual function are seen with both types of alcoholic jealousy mania.
(7) Using 194 men representing 62 male homosexual couples and 81 heterosexual couples, three hypotheses were analyzed: (1) that jealousy measured by a standard attitude measure, the semantic differential technique, will significantly positively correlate with scores on a standard jealousy measure, Eugene Mathes' Interpersonal Jealousy Scale; (2) that men in heterosexual couples will have higher levels of sexual jealousy than men in homosexual couples; and (3) that sexual jealousy is inversely correlated with self-actualization personality.
(8) In all these cases the husbands' jealousy adversely influenced their wives' response to treatment, and improvement in wives was associated with increased morbidity in their husbands.
(9) Through a detailed case study, the author describes the concept of the therapeutic triangle and the use of paradox and symptom transfer as potential contributions in the treatment of jealousy.
(10) The nations with the highest recorded levels include Colombia, Uganda, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, with the south Asian countries in particular producing unforgettable images of disfigured women who have been assaulted with acid because they have rejected sexual advances or marriage proposals, or aroused jealousy, or in some way or other inconvenienced the patriarchy and aroused its ire.
(11) But the frailty of a three-minute song – the concise honesty of that expression – amazes me and turns me into a bucket of jealousy.
(12) This kind of acting is in fact also observed in melancholia, psychoses and prepsychotic states, depressions with jealousy, borderlines and the actors of "accompanied suicides".
(13) Envy or jealousy always destroys unity, even inside one household.
(14) "When you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain and jealousy in the atmosphere," the website explains.
(15) Within that framework, it examines the roles of culture and personality in the development of sexual jealousy.
(16) "I remember so well the intensity and jealousy and all that.
(17) It means being adaptable in emergencies, cutting out jealousy and pettiness, relying on preventive efforts, finding strength in unity.
(18) The first hypothesis predicted that the perceived appropriateness of the expression of jealousy would be greater in romantic relationships than in friendships.
(19) The behavioural enactment in pathological jealousy is a substitute for and defence against full, loving and sexual, intimacy with a single, live person.
(20) Perhaps it was jealousy of Farage’s success that led Nuttall’s helpers – never Nuttall himself, of course – to fly too close to the sun.