What's the difference between excellence and stupendous?

Excellence


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
  • (n.) An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
  • (n.) A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This excellent prognosis supports a regimen of conservative therapy for these patients.
  • (2) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.
  • (3) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (4) Excellent correlations were observed between computer and manual methods for both systems.
  • (5) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (6) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
  • (7) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
  • (8) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
  • (9) "If you look at the price HP paid, it was an excellent deal for the Autonomy shareholders.
  • (10) An excellent correlation was found between pulmonary artery systolic pressure measured by CW Doppler and catheterization (r = 0.98).
  • (11) Among patients in whom the neuroma had been operated on once previously (first recurrence group), 88% achieved good to excellent pain relief with the technique described in this article.
  • (12) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
  • (13) All 4 patients subsequently had excellent subjective responses to MPA treatment, lasting for several months.
  • (14) The prognosis of meningococcal arthritis is excellent and joint sequelae are rare.
  • (15) These lesions had an excellent prognosis with a control rate of 100%.
  • (16) Patients treated with ciprofloxacin may need added coverage for anaerobes, but the drug's excellent activity against nosocomial pathogens and its availability in oral form allow for an early change to oral therapy without compromising effectiveness coupled with added savings and convenience.
  • (17) This procedure yields excellent precision and accuracy, as demonstrated by the analysis of a known amino acid mixture and of neonatal plasma.
  • (18) Thus, in spite of its excellent activity and unquestionable effectiveness, rifampicin should be used with caution in severe staphylococcal infections.
  • (19) This study was designed to compare these levels in hirsute women, normal premenopausal and postmenopausal women, and in men and to correlate each measurement with skin 5 alpha-reductase activity (5 alpha-RA), an excellent correlate of androgenicity.
  • (20) Computed tomography gave excellent visualization of prostate morphology and pelvic anatomic relationships.

Stupendous


Definition:

  • (a.) Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was bidding on behalf of an unknown and clearly stupendously rich buyer.
  • (2) We have lost three players who have played stupendously in this year's competition.
  • (3) Our trip over, we take one final look out from our luxurious room, back up the valley to the stupendous Matterhorn, and agree no amount of interior design wizardry can compete with that view.
  • (4) At the outset, the very success of this man in a stupendous hurry proved somewhat alarming to some – as the author and translator Kitty Muggeridge said of him in 1967: "He has risen without a trace."
  • (5) Nasa showed how a stupendous goal could be achieved, amazingly fast, if the will and the resources are there,” said Professor Martin Rees, former head of the Royal Society and another member of the Apollo group.
  • (6) Wayne Rooney 7 A little speculative with his passing at times but went close entering the final 20 minutes, denied by a stupendous save from Akinfeev.
  • (7) The advantage we have as British viewers is that when it comes to pop music we are so stupendously ahead of our continental cousins that we can afford to be relaxed about losing the Eurovision vote.
  • (8) Houghton was built with the art collection in mind and it was the finest in the land – they were stupendous works bought and displayed with "ambition and intelligence and taste", said Morel.
  • (9) In fact, the entire museum, one of world culture's best-kept secrets, with its stupendous collection of antiquities, escaped lightly, compared with its counterparts in Baghdad and Cairo.
  • (10) It will need a stupendously good performance to make the podium, let alone win.
  • (11) 9.25pm BST Goal – 84 mins – Altidore – Bosnia 2-3 USA Stupendous free-kick from Altidore!
  • (12) The palace, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1705, and later landscaped by Capability Brown, is a stupendous building covering seven acres, and has been a Unesco world heritage site since 1987.
  • (13) "The stupendous work that was being done by Ricardo Teixeira will continue," he promised.
  • (14) I'm not here for sightseeing, however, I'm heading further into the forest surrounding the stupendous temple complex with Australian archaeologist Dr Damian Evans to meet the archaeologists from Cambodia, the Philippines and the USA, who are working on new excavations .
  • (15) People don’t have to look very far to see the evidence that their economic plan isn’t working.” The Conservatives won by nearly 28 percentage points here in 2011, but the latest polls give McCrimmon a lead of 50-39 – indicating a truly stupendous vote swing in the order of 41 points, though this may in part be linked to the fact that the Conservative incumbent is not standing again.
  • (16) Drive around the rim in summer (snow can block the road as late as June) for stupendous photo opportunities.
  • (17) One thing remains unchanged – the vista is stupendous: the green, tree-dotted, hilly landscape of an Africa seen in so many nature documentaries and tourist fantasies.
  • (18) Its Turbine Hall demanded and created a new Baroque, as artist after artist rose to the challenge of this stupendous interior.
  • (19) January 6, 2014 Good point, and yes, the next round will have to be stupendous to top what we watched this wild Wild Card Weekend.
  • (20) The show will also display the stupendous Vale of York hoard in its entirety at the museum for the first time since it was discovered by metal detectorists in a field near Harrogate in 2007.