What's the difference between gladiator and gladiatorial?
Gladiator
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement.
(n.) One who engages in any fierce combat or controversy.
Example Sentences:
(1) I found girls who had been pirates, gladiators, I wanted young girls to know they could do whatever was on their mind.” Toksvig, who will leave News Quiz in four weeks’ time, said her political work was now more important than her broadcasting.
(2) In summer there are weekly re-enactments of gladiator fights, and it is also used for plays, concerts and the September Outlook festival .
(3) Of his 13 films, four have been colossal box-office hits - Alien, Thelma & Louise, Hannibal, Gladiator - and one, Blade Runner , is now venerated as a classic.
(4) The fact that players play on through the pain barrier and are celebrated as modern-day gladiators is also ignorance and lack of education.
(5) Scott, the film-maker behind such classics as Blade Runner and Alien , has been nominated three times over the course of his career for Thelma and Louise , Gladiator and Black Hawk Down , but has yet to win a trophy.
(6) Beyond that the similarities end, since Macrinus did not fall out with the emperor's son nor become a gladiator but died a rich man, honoured by his massive mausoleum.
(7) Among the gladiators is charismatic up'n'comer Grado, star of a recent Vice documentary about the UK wrestling scene.
(8) He has been married twice, with two sons by his first marriage, and a daughter by his second, and has recently been going out with Gianina Facio, the Costa Rican actress who played Russell Crowe's wife in Gladiator.
(9) Murphy's law One of Stuart Murphy's first acts when he became Sky1's director of programmes last month was to axe two of the channel's highest profile and highest rating shows: the revamped Gladiators and Don't Forget the Lyrics, hosted by Shane Richie.
(10) They also reveal a lot of filthy gossip about prostitutes and gladiators but, seeing as that is not strictly relevant to the film, interested readers will just have to look it up for themselves.
(11) As he limped round the fringes of the pitch, he was afforded a gladiator's reception.
(12) Orthopaedic surgeons have long had an association with sport, although it is arguable whether Galen who was the first sports medicine doctor, appointed to the Pergamum Gladiators in 157 AD was a surgeon by todays definition.
(13) While this was the product of necessity, Calvo says he now likes this: “I think it makes people ride a bit more slowly and carefully.” These are no UK-style traffic-battling gladiators.
(14) Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Prometheus are just the highlights of Ridley Scott’s directorial career, which stretches back 37 years to The Duellists, released in 1977, and which is about to enter a new chapter with the biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings .
(15) The gladiators seem bored, and they need something to do that isn’t related to the White House or B613.
(16) Any appointment would mark something of a coup for director Zack Snyder and studio Warner Brothers, with Phoenix having largely eschewed mainstream roles in favour of arthouse and indie fare since his standout turn as usurper emperor Commodus in 2000's Gladiator.
(17) It wasn’t until Gladiator, in 2000, which fused glistening CGI (computer generated imagery) with old-fashioned Hollywood spectacle, that he found a successful path out of the woods.
(18) But as a number of subsequent apologies would suggest, the disses were a learning curve; Lorde spent the bulk of her early interviews being pushed into the gladiator ring with pretty much every other female pop star on the planet and asked to pass comment for the sake of a headline.
(19) Moore held one arm aloft in the familiar gladiator salute while Hurst was smothered with congratulations.
(20) Gladiator’s success triggered a latter-day predilection for classical and medieval-era epics – Robin Hood and crusades drama Kingdom of Heaven, as well as Gladiator – and Scott now has some claim to being the Cecil B DeMille of the digital era.
Gladiatorial
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Gladiatorian
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a gladiatorial display – that is what people go to see.” Bray added: “The popular knee-jerk reaction will be we should ban airshows, but it’s very rare for such a crash to take place.
(2) Her gladiatorial, win-every-day, with-us-or-against-us style was aimed at one thing: dragging the Coalition’s primary vote up from where it was languishing at the time, 35%.
(3) Players may have ever-expanding retinues – coaches, fitness trainers, sports psychologists, masseurs, agents and managers – but ultimately they have to do the job alone, out there in the gladiatorial setting of a packed tennis court with only their thoughts for company.
(4) Britain's leading young feminist is no Andrea Dworkin sloganist, dramatising defiance via dungarees, nor a gladiatorial Germaine Greer show-off, nor another glossy Naomi Wolf .
(5) "Besides the pleasure of seeing the GC contenders sipping champagne and smoking cigars on their bicycles and getting a well-deserved break after 20 days of racing, the final finish is such an bloodthirsty contest among the sprinters that I think this stage is the perfect combination of pomp and ceremony and gladiatorial battle.
(6) This is politics at its most gladiatorial, after all.
(7) To which I say, ‘I think the FBI had more to do with it than me.’” But the impression of a gladiatorial clash between two titans is unmistakable – as is the surprising degree of similarity between football’s mortal enemies.
(8) They then awaited the judges’ gladiatorial thumbs up or thumbs down to see if they would fight another week.
(9) Republican candidates attack media over tough debate questions Read more Some refused to play along, ignoring the question entirely, but two gave answers that revealed a disgust for a gladiatorial format which went far beyond the subsequent squabbling over whether the ringmasters were too brutal.
(10) But she said the perception of comedy being male and gladiatorial against the audience was diminishing.
(11) Corbyn will have to reboot the format so it is no longer gladiatorial.
(12) At Foxtons branches, the negotiators’ telephones are arranged facing each other, in gladiatorial rows.
(13) There is no gladiatorial camaraderie from Karadzic this time, as we re-enter the court; his face has hardened, his eyes steeled.
(14) Ghana’s Boateng, when not seeking to rile the country he represented at every youth level from 15 to 21, predicted a gladiatorial combat worthy of ancient Rome.
(15) The idea of a vengeful state that sends young people to be slaughtered came from Theseus and the Minotaur, while the games themselves are modelled on the gladiatorial contests of ancient Rome.
(16) We had a gladiatorial competition to decide which was the "one": Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending .
(17) Little did we know that behind each cake lay a person – with ambition.” Seen in the light of its TV antecedents, The Great British Bake Off seems less about cake (since the formula works for dancing, extreme fitness, singing and business skills alike) and more about the human desire to enjoy the bloody, gladiatorial spectacle of battle.
(18) It’s valid in the gladiatorial arena of politics to attempt to sully that which you have tried and failed to control.
(19) Bake Off seems less about cake and more about the bloody gladiatorial spectacle of battle * * * And yet, the baking is important, and everybody who watches the show instinctively knows it.
(20) The writer and radio presenter Francine Stock described it as "a kind of modern equivalent of the crowd response at a gladiatorial contest, but instead of using the thumbs up and thumbs down, we're using our dialling fingers".