What's the difference between flourished and vaudeville?

Flourished


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Flourish

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) was conceptualized more than 35 years ago, but its clinical application only flourished in the past 10 years after a number of technical refinements.
  • (3) For creativity to flourish, schools have to feel free to innovate without the constant fear of being penalised for not keeping with the programme.
  • (4) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
  • (5) Let's stay together Modern love places more value on how an individual can flourish in relationships, according to a 2013 study in the Journal of Communication , and thus Generation Y have a different romantic dynamic than their parents.
  • (6) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
  • (7) A successful economy and a healthy, creative, open and vibrant democratic society depend on a flourishing creative sector,” Corbyn said.
  • (8) The lessons from successful, modern economies is that the state has to be active in supporting, promoting, and demanding innovation in order to flourish.
  • (9) The contrast between these two worlds – one legal and flourishing, the other illegal and stubbornly disregarding of state lines – can seem baffling, yet it may have profound consequences for whether this unique experiment spreads.
  • (10) They opened it with a flourish to reveal a packet of Trill bird seed.
  • (11) The prospect of that tap being turned off has already seen capital pouring out of emerging markets and currencies, potentially exposing underlying weaknesses in economies that have been flourishing on a ready supply of cheap credit.
  • (12) The second-best team in the Bundesliga were inhibited by Klopp’s return to the Westfalenstadion last week but initially would flourish at Anfield – another Tuchel prediction.
  • (13) The arts will flourish, teachers will be admired and respected, and in charge of their own profession again.
  • (14) Unless comprehensive studies are set up to review past evidence and carry out lifespan studies of those exposed, speculation will flourish.
  • (15) Not only did erections survive unscathed, but sexual harassment continued to flourish.
  • (16) "Our proposals remain unchanged and will create an open standards-based internet-connected TV environment within which competition and innovation can flourish.
  • (17) We will celebrate that the centre is still in existence, is still flourishing and is probably one of the most successful CILs in the country.” Without the momentum created by the independent living movement, he adds, broader policy initiatives in social care, such as personalisation and co-production – involving users of services as partners in making policy and designing services – would never have happened.
  • (18) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
  • (19) The house flourished but the marriage was bitterly unhappy and ended in divorce.
  • (20) Ahrendts' exit may also be delayed as she helps put the final flourishes to Burberry's plan to take back its Japanese licence in-house when it comes up for renewal next year.

Vaudeville


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
  • (n.) A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (2) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
  • (3) | Lucia Graves Read more It was an attempt to resurrect the long-dead genre of vaudeville, only replacing acrobats with Rick Santorum and tenors with veterans.
  • (4) "Vaudeville distribution allows me to recoup my costs yet I would prefer being corporately presented."
  • (5) Throughout history, dwarves had been entertainers, often part of a circus or vaudeville show.
  • (6) Tyne Daly stars in Master Class at the Vaudeville theatre from 21 January to 28 April 2012 Guardian Extra members can get a top price ticket to A Round Heeled Woman for £35.
  • (7) Of all Jonathan's West End appearances, the one that stands out is an Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville in 1988 starring Michael Gambon, Jonathan Pryce and Greta Scacchi.
  • (8) Vaudeville , London WC2 (0844-412 9675), 26 November to 17 January.
  • (9) "I felt like we were doing a vaudeville act - I mean, it's a sight-gag, I'm six-two, he's about five-two, so there's this immediate visual thing, you've almost won the game before a single pitch is thrown."
  • (10) Just a few days ago, I was on the stage of the Harvey in Brooklyn, a beaten-up vaudeville hall like the Bouffes, where Sam Mendes is about to launch his globe-spanning Bridge Project with a production of The Cherry Orchard, one of the plays with which Peter opened the Harvey in the 1980s.
  • (11) Both as a vaudeville show and a political rally, Trump’s event was lacking.
  • (12) Visual art Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville The late Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) has not had a major show in the UK in 30 years.
  • (13) Each week I took lessons from the theatre conductor or someone he recommended_ I had great ambitions to be a concert artist, or, failing that, to use it in a vaudeville act."
  • (14) Located on the east side, this classic spot feels like it's an old live theatre, with a dose of vaudeville sparkle.
  • (15) The cinema was built in 1929 as a vaudeville theatre, and between the 50s and 70s was used to screen erotic films and grindhouse fare, latterly with nude dancers accompanying the screenings.
  • (16) Still, last autumn G4S reckoned it had retired from vaudeville and dispatched a smart new PR team around London to tell critics all about its newfound professionalism.
  • (17) That play also opened at the Donmar before transferring to the Vaudeville theatre.
  • (18) He remained haunted by his father's remark about his literary debut: "It is not even drama - it is vaudeville."
  • (19) Several rightwing politicians accused Hollande of carrying out a love-life "vaudeville".
  • (20) The Grammy for best song that year, for instance, was won not by the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations or the Four Tops’ Reach Out I’ll Be There but by the New Vaudeville Band’s jaunty jazz age pastiche Winchester Cathedral.

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