What's the difference between eternity and propitiating?
Eternity
Definition:
(n.) Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
(n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
(2) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
(3) In legend, Gilgamesh fell asleep on the water side and let slip from his fingers the plant of eternal youth.
(4) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
(5) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
(6) Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
(7) In each of his creative capacities, he was the eternal quiet man.
(8) Even Alec – eternally hard to please where his own work was concerned – loved it.
(9) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
(10) Boris Johnson accused of 'dishonest gymnastics' over TTIP U-turn Read more “But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe .
(11) They call it, rather unsurprisingly, the eternal flame.
(12) They were created on the basis that, whatever the cost, there are some eternal values that are worth upholding in a civilised society.
(13) He has taken the legacy of postwar abstract expressionism, and allied to that a deep love of the great eternal themes of the classical world.
(14) Murray said: "I'm eternally grateful to Ivan for all his hard work over the past two years, the most successful of my career so far.
(15) I am not sure that a lucrative career in rape gags is more helpful than a failed one, but the rape hum seems eternal.
(16) Ras proteins are membrane-associated transducers of eternal stimuli to unknown intracellular targets.
(17) One, Baroness O'Cathain, has said, in relation to politics and her evangelism: "For me it is a guarantee of eternal peace."
(18) Committed to eliminating the budget deficit by the end of next year, it just does not have the cash to fund, for example, big new infrastructure projects like an eternally proposed (and eternally postponed) bridge over the Straits of Messina.
(19) François Bayrou must have resigned himself to being the eternal also-ran of French presidential elections, by now.
(20) To all those who offered me their friendship, support and prayers, I will be eternally grateful.
Propitiating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Propitiate
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence this is a particularly propitious moment to review the issues raised by this book and the treatment it describes.
(2) a highly propitious system in which to study eukaryotic cellular morphogenesis.
(3) Another former shadow cabinet member said it was difficult to imagine a less propitious set of circumstances for a new leader of the opposition in parliament.
(4) Physiologic magnetic fields on the order of magnitude 10(-8) gauss have been unified with their propitiators: quantum genetic particles, the gravitational potential of which is about a few ergs.
(5) Hardly the most propitious moment for the “post-Blairite” wing of the party to strike against their anti-war leader.
(6) No political party can have gone into the final week of a byelection campaign in less propitious circumstances than the Liberal Democrats .
(7) A previous organotypic culture of rat's superior ganglion is propitious to the survey of grafts.
(8) In addition, the data confirm a classic observation: in comparison with intact families, disunited families are underprivileged in relation to living conditions, deficient in relation to psychosocial functioning, and propitious to behaviour problems and delinquent activity.
(9) Physiologic magnetic fields of the order 10(-8) gauss have been unified with their propitiators: quantum genetic particles, the gravitational potential of which is about an erg.
(10) A new surgical technique for the correction of longitudinal median and paramedian incisional hernia uses the hernial sac itself, a tissue of good resistance and healing properties, to cover raw areas, remake the abdominal wall anatomy, propitiate tensionless sutures and render unnecessary the use of prosthetic material, even in the largest hernia.
(11) A true 1980s believer who was there at the time, he is nonetheless sharp enough to recognise that these are not propitious times for pointing the finger at an enemy within.
(12) It seems that the time is propitious to examine prehospital determinants of nosocomial infection, with the goal of further preventing these life-threatening events in the hospital.
(13) Because of this stability, SHP-77 appears to represent a propitious cell line for in vitro and in vivo biological and therapeutic studies of this type of lung cancer.
(14) In these mice, a high fat diet is more propitious to fat accretion than a high-carbohydrate diet.
(15) Healthy development depends on both a propitious environment and the action of adolescents themselves.
(16) Furthermore, we demonstrate how fundamental thermal noise is a concomitant manifestation with weak electric and magnetic fields being propitiated by terrestrial and inertial interactions of the human being with the geomagnetic field and flux densities permeating outer space.
(17) coli L-asparaginase by alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) was observed under conditions otherwise propitious to the dissociation of the tetrameric molecule into inactive subunits, i.e.
(18) This effect is similar to that of the methylxanthines inhibiting phosphodiesterase propitiating the increase of CAMP and favouring bronchodilatation.
(19) Although exceptional in terms of the extensive use of the neuroleptic in question, this possibility indicates the need for monitoring of the duration of QT before and during treatment with droperidol and for prescription of the drug to be avoided in circumstances known to be propitious to this arrhythmia (bradycardia, hypokalemia, anti-arrhythmic drugs).
(20) In the first group (A), partial placental transfusion was propitiated and in the second group (B), the umbilical cord was ligated previous to the first inspiration.