What's the difference between furore and sensation?

Furore


Definition:

  • (n.) Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
  • (2) He has his job to do and he has to do it the way he thinks best.” On Saturday night, in a sign of the growing concern at the top of the party about the affair, one shadow cabinet member told the Observer : “The issue is already echoing back at us on the doorsteps.” At all levels, there was despair that the furore had turned the spotlight on to Labour’s difficulties as a time when the party had hoped to take advantage of the Tories’ second byelection loss at the hands of Ukip.
  • (3) The proportion of people who say they will change their shopping habits – or claim they would buy more fresh meat, cut down on ready meals or avoid products from companies linked to the scare – has dropped from 52% at the height of the furore to 47%.
  • (4) The chief executive has already waived his bonus for 2012 following the furore surrounding the £1m he was to be handed for 2011 before the political outcry forced him to hand it back.
  • (5) The bank's failed bid to buy 631 branches from Lloyds Banking Group caused a political furore, and was followed by allegations that Paul Flowers, the former chairman of the bank and a member of the main group board, had been involved in buying illegal drugs.
  • (6) There was also a minor furore in 2013 when Ukip trumpeted that her father would stand for the party as a council candidate.
  • (7) In a sign that Fox's decision to fall on his sword will not mark the end of the furore engulfing the Tories, both Liberal Democrat and Labour politicians stepped up their demands for the prime minister to explain why several senior members of his cabinet were involved in an Anglo-American organisation apparently at odds with his party's environmental commitments and pledge to defend free healthcare.
  • (8) But the Depp dog furore is a perfect example of the different approach Joyce will take to leading the Nationals – the rural-based minor party in the governing Coalition that has in recent years had a series of gentlemanly leaders who, wherever possible, have settled differences with their Coalition parties quietly, created public fusses only rarely, and international incidents never.
  • (9) The furore over Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand's prank-gone-wrong brought the debate surrounding boorish comedy to a head, and has shifted the goalposts for broadcast comedy.
  • (10) I phoned Martin during the first days of the furore.
  • (11) In an earlier case that created an international furor, another American, James Walter Palmer, was accused of killing a well-known lion named Cecil in an early July hunt that Zimbabwe officials said was illegal.
  • (12) HSBC and NatWest are to scrap all charges for withdrawing money from cash machines, reviving the furore over Barclays' plan to charge as much as £1 for using its network.
  • (13) But WPP insiders at the annual meeting believe the company has become unfairly caught up in the furore over pay.
  • (14) "Because of the furore over the row it has not been possible to leverage the kind of synergy that Worldwide had hoped.
  • (15) Lawrie accused Giles, who has been on leave, of hiding while the furore played out, and asked whether he knew of the potential conflict of interest before a government reshuffle on 12 December when he handed the police and emergency services portfolio to Peter Chandler.
  • (16) Moir, who has won a British Press Award, made a statement defending her column late on Friday, saying it was not her intention to offend, blaming a "heavily orchestrated internet campaign" for the furore and adding that it was "mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones".
  • (17) The furore is also likely to put further pressure on loyalist paramilitary leaders who have been arguing that loyalists refrain from retaliating over recent attacks by dissident republicans.
  • (18) The Irish taoiseach, Enda Kenny, admitted in the wake of Merkel's comments, at a summit of European Union leaders on Friday, that the furore had damaged the country's standing .
  • (19) Since we want to dig all deeper into Chad Johnson, can we dig in deep to her?” On Friday, Smith released his own response to the furore through a series of tweets ; after further criticism, he posted a link to a full statement .
  • (20) The story had caused a furore inside Russia, even pricking politicians from Russia's normally horizontal state duma to demand Berezovsky's extradition from Britain, something Britain's judicial system had consistently refused to do.

Sensation


Definition:

  • (n.) An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.
  • (n.) A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
  • (n.) A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
  • (2) Panic disorder subjects showed a negative relationship between pulmonary function and hyperventilation symptoms, suggesting a heightened sensitivity to, and discomfort with, sensations associated with normal pulmonary function.
  • (3) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
  • (4) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
  • (5) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
  • (6) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
  • (7) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
  • (8) No significant changes in maximal work load, exercise time, systolic blood pressure at maximal work load, or subjective sensation of well-being could be demonstrated during combined drug treatment.
  • (9) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
  • (10) The analysis of the neurophysiological correlations of the image formation process is followed by a study of the functional role of the image in psychic dynamics, its genetic relationship with sensation and speech, its role in the communication functions, in the structuring of the relationship between the internal and the external world.
  • (11) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement – sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
  • (12) Work over the past 17 years has consistently failed to reveal any objective sign accompanying the transient sensations that some individuals experience after the experimental ingestion of monosodium glutamate and it is questionable whether the term 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' has any validity.
  • (13) Forty-four patients of meralgia paraesthetica presented with combination of symptoms mainly of numbness with loss of superficial sensation on the anterolateral aspect of a thigh were selected for the study.
  • (14) The incidence of phantom pain and nonpainful phantom sensations was 13.3% and 15.0%, respectively, 3 weeks after mastectomy, 12.7% and 11.8%, respectively, after a year, and 17.4% and 11.8%, respectively, after 6 years.
  • (15) History is littered with examples of byelection sensations that soon turned to dust.
  • (16) The return of sensation is of particular benefit to elderly patients who make up the greatest number of patients in the series.
  • (17) The subjects described the thirst sensations as mainly due to a dry unpleasant tasting mouth, which was promptly relieved by drinking.
  • (18) Similarly, subjects that were trained to focus their attention on the magnitude of the immediate (first) pain sensation evoked by brief electrical or mechanical stimulation did not report reduction by morphine of pain attributed to conduction in myelinated peripheral nociceptors.
  • (19) This scale thus provides a reproducible and sensitive estimation of the sensation of dyspnoea during effort and thus appears valuable in evaluating the subjective response in therapeutic trials in patients who are dyspnoeic on effort.
  • (20) Examination revealed that five patients in the nerve divided group had a small area of altered sensation but this was not significant either for the patient or statistically between the groups.

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