What's the difference between halcyon and peaceful?

Halcyon


Definition:

  • (n.) A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the halcyon, which was anciently said to lay her eggs in nests on or near the sea during the calm weather about the winter solstice.
  • (a.) Hence: Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the future search for coalition partners, Merkel will be heavily reliant on the hapless foreign minister and Liberal Democrat leader Guido Westerwelle, while the revitalised Social Democrats and the ever-rising Greens can start dreaming again of the halcyon days under Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer.
  • (2) No one is expecting a return the halcyon days of the early noughties when Big Brother regularly brought Channel 4 audiences of 4 million plus, big online audiences and page after page of tabloid coverage throughout the summer months.
  • (3) I remember Peter Shilton and the like doing this on what seemed like a regular basis (although obviously not in the 70s when I was a wee lad)" queried Neil Denny, back in the halcyon days of 2003.
  • (4) Acid phosphatase activity was histochemically localized in the proventriculus of two birds namely Ploceus philippinus and Halcyon smyrnensis.
  • (5) Yes, Fallon may long for the halcyon days when you could call a spade a spade, but since the race-hate sitcom Love Thy Neighbour was cancelled in the mid 1970s, those days are over.
  • (6) The halcyon days of the mid 20th century, where more mothers did stay at home and the father could be a breadwinner, was not the norm for more than a handful of decades.
  • (7) Equally, she does not shy away from emotive language - similar to the majority of her peers - saying: We do not live in halcyon world where choice exists for everyone.
  • (8) If Margate can emulate St Ives, it will mark a stunning comeback for a town whose halcyon days are long behind it.
  • (9) Playwright and director Shoji Kokami's Halcyon Days looks at the rise to cult status of so-called suicide websites reflecting their proliferation in recent years, particularly in Japan and South Korea.
  • (10) In those far-off, halcyon days, local authorities had been obliged by the Conservatives' 1962 Education Act not only to pay full-time students' tuition fees but also a contribution towards maintenance as well: a benefit my generation took for granted.
  • (11) Limited data on mental health suggest that the halcyon picture of country life may be grossly distorted.
  • (12) Pleasance, Sun to 27 Aug Lyn Gardner Halcyon Days, London Halcyon Days.
  • (13) Platinum discs for her 2010 debut album, the electronica-rippled Lights , and its 2012 follow-up, Halcyon , hang in the hallway.
  • (14) "Originally regional newspapers were run by entrepreneurial-type people back in the halcyon days.
  • (15) In what must now seem like the halcyon days of opposition, when he watched a rightwing government disintegrate in grace-and-favour scandals, George Papandreou uttered the immortal words: "The money exists, it is only that Mr [Kostas] Karamanlis prefers to give it to the few and powerful."
  • (16) There's a quiet track on Halcyon (co-written with Justin Parker) called I Know You Care that Goulding has introduced, at gigs, as a song about her absent father.
  • (17) It sounds almost halcyon; the perfect melting-pot with children of all classes and backgrounds getting on together.
  • (18) The rights had becomebecame available after Halcyon, the company that produced Terminator Salvation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009 .
  • (19) Throughout Ghomeshi’s trial, as his lawyer Marie Heinen ripped apart the accusers , I found myself recalling a line from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, set during the halcyon years when America’s biggest problem was the president’s joint taste for cigars and interns.
  • (20) "He appears to want to take us back to some halcyon age but it is a regressive agenda.

Peaceful


Definition:

  • (a.) Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end.
  • (a.) Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable; as, peaceful words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (2) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
  • (3) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
  • (4) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (5) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
  • (6) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
  • (7) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
  • (8) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
  • (9) These days, all Russian 15-year-olds study War and Peace as part of their national curriculum.
  • (10) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
  • (11) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
  • (12) She also welcomed the wider context of Mohammed's release: "I do believe that this time there will be peace," she said, referring to the talks due to open on Wednesday.
  • (13) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
  • (14) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
  • (15) Laryngo-tracheal traumatisms are not frequent at peace time.
  • (16) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
  • (17) "What Russia is doing now in Ukraine threatens peace and security in Europe ," said Nato's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
  • (18) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
  • (19) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
  • (20) Kerry, however, has called on Egypt to respect the right of peaceful protest, including pro-Morsi rallies.