What's the difference between gamin and throwaway?
Gamin
Definition:
(n.) A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was fine work from the Dardenne brothers – their Le Gamin au Vélo was a modern reworking of Oliver Twist and Bicycle Thieves .
(2) Samantha Barks (the Les Misérables movie) stars as the Gallic gamine with Adam Chanler-Berat (Next to Normal, Peter and the Starcatcher) as her fanciful love interest.
(3) That's all well and good for gamine young things like you, but for the rest of us who don't want to look like Grayson Perry, any thoughts?
(4) Her quiet lifestyle, gamine looks and infrequent personal appearances have fuelled her reputation as a misanthropic genius.
(5) Paulette Goddard as the gamin has taken kindly to his style.
(6) Sure, the models might look all gamine and cute in their "boyfriend" jeans in magazines ("I'm so thin my jeans are barely clinging to my hipbones!")
(7) As it is, it won the Grand Prix, jointly with the Dardenne brothers' Le Gamin au Vélo, which was a powerful and involving work, but not obviously a progression and development from their earlier films.
(8) As Olympic fever will take over next year, the Dardennes here had lovely Cécile de France in Le Gamin au Vélo , and I hear of plans for two British cycling films: James Erskine is recounting the life of Italian Tour de France winner Marco Pantani and Shane Meadows is making a biopic of 1960s British cyclist Tom Simpson.
(9) But where Tautou, gamine and Gallic, belongs to a highly bankable tradition, Sy is a one-off, at least for now.
(10) Two different styles of street life are presented--the gamines and chupagruesos.
(11) Cannes favourites the Dardennes brothers, two time recipients of the Palme d'Or, shared the Grand Prix for Le Gamin au Velo, a neo-realist tale of bad parenting and bike-riding in Belgium.
(12) Rodin's 'Thinker' with a xylophone of ribs and a gamine haircut.
(13) The programmers seemed to group themes in batches this year, so the early days of the festival had female film-makers, then we moved through a couple of days of sex and paedophilia (bordello movie The House of Tolerance , Austrian film Michael ), before fathers and sons took over ( Tree of Life , Le Gamin au Vélo , Footnote ), then French politics ( La Conquête , Pater ), then depression ( The Beaver , Melancholia ), antisemitism ( The Beaver , Melancholia ) and, eventually, sexual politics (Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In , The Source ).
(14) And you've seen even more full-page magazine ads featuring the same ultra-long-and-thin gamines wearing that outfit, or part of it, trying to sell you jewellery, shoes or designer bags.
Throwaway
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It led me to believe that I am that which society portrays: that people who struggle with heroin are criminals, they are throwaways, they deserve to be locked up, they deserve to have their rights taken away from them and they don’t deserve to have a successful and meaningful life,” she said.
(2) Finally, Sybil Burton gave in, claiming cruelty and that her husband was "in the constant company of another woman," which Newsweek called "the throwaway line of the decade".
(3) The results show that the proposed improvements were mostly realised as far as such administrative measures as the procurement of disinfectant dispensers, throwaway towels and suitable disinfectants were concerned.
(4) Recycling and resterilisation of throwaway articles--in radiology especially of catheters used in angiography--has become widespread to save costs.
(5) Although now mostly remembered for a throwaway remark about Tories being "lower than vermin", it was another part of the address by the then minister for health that caught the headlines at the time.
(6) One throwaway moment with him tossing a hat into a van, I thought, well, nothing much we can do with that, but Will made it work beautifully.
(7) When we maintain and resell,” says co-founder Janet Gunter, “we create value locally in an otherwise throwaway economy where things are manufactured far away.
(8) Festival organisers are targeting the disposable bottle – one of the most conspicuous symbols of the throwaway culture that each year leaves the 900-acre Somerset site wreathed in plastic, with an estimated one million plastic bottles being used during the festival.
(9) Now, his revolution isn’t just a throwaway comment.
(10) People tend to wince at the cost of having furniture reupholstered, but when you think about how long it should last (a well-upholstered chair should be good for 30 years) there's nothing throwaway about it.
(11) Yet, during a three-day literature search in the Bodleian library, all I could find on elephant adaptation in Europe was a throwaway sentence in one scientific paper.
(12) There is no denying the radicalism of this message, a frontal and sustained attack on what he calls " unbridled capitalism ", with its " throwaway " attitude to everything from unwanted food to unwanted old people.
(13) Cumberbatch has reached that level of fame where even the most throwaway remark is parsed for hidden meaning and rebroadcast to the world as a statement of the utmost importance.
(14) However, these are somewhat throwaway remarks towards the end of the report, with no exploration of what will be necessary for the NHS to elude the clutches of domestic and European competition law.
(15) Add an ending that's midnight-black, morally, yet somehow just right, and it's the kind of throwaway thriller that could only be improved by seeing it in a nighttime drive-in with a date, some reefer and a fifth of Old Harper.
(16) The discarding of people becomes commonplace because it can be seen as a throwaway culture of endlessly refreshing offers.
(17) When a car stops after they wave it to a halt (most regular commuters do not), the boys hurriedly put their case forward – plots of land at throwaway prices; yet-to-be-constructed apartments that will fulfil a house owner’s dream.
(18) In one of these fanfics there was a throwaway line about a gay character.
(19) Urging people not to give up hope even in the harsh economic climate, Francis also called on them to fight back against the "throwaway culture" he said was a by-product of a global economic system that cared only about profit.
(20) These problems are closely linked to a throwaway culture which affects the excluded just as it quickly reduces things to rubbish.