What's the difference between inspiring and uninspiring?

Inspiring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inspire
  • (a.) Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Airway closure (CV), functional residual capacity (FRC) and the distribution of inspired gas (nitrogen washout delay percentage, NWOD %) and arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) was measured by standard electrodes in eight extremely obese patients before and after weight loss (mean weights 142 and 94 kg, respectively) following intestinal shunt operation.
  • (2) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
  • (3) Increase in activity of pulmonary stretch receptors causes inhibition of inspiration and bronchodilation.
  • (4) The duration of the individual crackles became shorter and the timing of the crackles shifted toward the end of inspiration.
  • (5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
  • (6) Transcutaneous oxygen measurements (TcpO2) have been shown to be an index of tissue perfusion and it has been suggested that the main haemodynamic variable influencing tissue perfusion is cardiac output, assuming that inspired oxygen remains constant.
  • (7) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
  • (8) I was inspired by and, in this article, refer to videotapes of consultations and therapy sessions shown at an international conference on constructivism and family therapy in Sulitjelma, Norway, June 1988, and to written material from the Tromsø group (Tom Andersen and Anna M. Flåm), the Milan team (Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin), and the Galveston team (Harlene Anderson and Harold Goolishian).
  • (9) Under cyclic uptake conditions alveolar gases follow an oscillating time course, because gas concentrations tend to increase during inspiration and to decrease during expiration.
  • (10) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
  • (11) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
  • (12) During inspiration, the velocity was greater and the shape of the flow profile throughout diastole tended to be flat.
  • (13) "It's inspiring for young sportspeople everywhere to have something like this happening in our backyard.
  • (14) Increased ventilatory excursions with constant inspired CO2 levels did not cause any elevation of IOT, but a minimal compensatory drop in IOT below resting values occurred when increased ventilatory excursions were discontinued.
  • (15) As an index of inhomogeneous distribution of inspired air, the mean dilution number (the ratio of the first to zero moments) was calculated from each multibreath nitrogen washout during spontaneous breathing.
  • (16) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
  • (17) The effects of the level of oxygenation on the respiratory response to heat exposure have been studied in conscious cats during normoxia, severe or mild hypocapnic hypoxia [inspired O2 fraction (FIO2) = 0.11 or 0.13], or hyperoxia.
  • (18) We therefore measured HCVR, HVR, and ventilation for three breaths preceding and eight breaths following three totally obstructed inspirations in eight normal subjects during NREM sleep.
  • (19) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  • (20) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.

Uninspiring


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But there can be few elections where the choice is as uninspiring as this.
  • (2) The Coalition is appealing to the same change-weary voters with the message that Turnbull is a better bet to deliver economic and political stability and Shorten is untested, uninspiring and a risk.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Venetian Condos in Oliver Unfortunately, Edmonton has a lot of rather odd and uninspired architecture, particularly that dating from the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • (4) Manchester City had not won since Sergio Agüero’s last goal, away against Swansea City on 24 September, but seven games later the Argentina striker found the net twice in the first half to catapult Pep Guardiola’s team past an uninspiring West Bromwich Albion and back to the top of the table, where Arsenal had momentarily displaced them earlier in the afternoon.
  • (5) Occasionally Beckerman would start in the Jones role, but the effect of him alongside Bradley seemed to be very static and uninspiring.
  • (6) The standard of opposition is, in part, to make up for a generally uninspiring fixture list in their qualifying group.
  • (7) Polls put Romney ahead by two percentage points on Thursday and, after delivering a competent but uninspired speech on Thursday evening, one point on Friday.
  • (8) City were sluggish and uninspired, and though Dzeko hit the bar with a powerful header just before Southampton levelled, he should have done better from Nasri's well-flighted free-kick.
  • (9) Yet it also includes hundreds of longstanding activists who did the same to register their discontent with what they felt to be a shrunken, inauthentic and uninspiring offer from the Labour mainstream.
  • (10) While a less crushing defeat is expected this time, analysts are not predicting significant gains for fragmented, uninspired opponents that have wilted under the EPRDF’s glare.
  • (11) Or, if you prefer, Barney Ronay's analysis of a "turgid, tactically constipated semi-final”, "a deeply uninspiring match", "a game of no shots, no incident and a crushing sense of caution", "120 minutes of something that resembled a groggy second cousin of high-grade tournament football".
  • (12) Miguel Herrera's side may have had a fairly uninspiring qualification campaign but they have already proved that they can kick it with the best of them and with the rest of them.
  • (13) They are uninspiring, do not challenge able students and certainly do not prepare students for an A-level course.
  • (14) Villa were flat and uninspiring, on the wrong end of a game of keep-ball, and, if Lambert's move for Grant Holt of Wigan Athletic smacks a little of desperation, it is because their record of eight home goals in the league is as bad as it gets in all four divisions.
  • (15) It looked as though the teams would play out an uninspiring 0-0 draw after 90 minutes that had end of season stamped all over them.
  • (16) Those are: Labor’s me-tooism on asylum-seekers that offend a moral conscience of idealistic campaigners, me-tooism on mass surveillance that infuriates an entire digital community of potential communicators, and employing the language of uninspiring bureaucracy around the progressive policy opportunity which is climate action.
  • (17) It detailed a string of failures: that staff training on how to prevent radicalism and extremism was not completed; there were issues around safeguarding, declining academic standards, uninspiring teaching, low expectations and low attendance.
  • (18) Their campaign has been arid and uninspiring so far and they must hope that the public does not grow resentful of their persistent claims that Scotland isn't big enough or good enough to stand alone.
  • (19) Sifting through a mountain of unwelcome tweets, many Twitter users would sympathise with a lament such as: "Most comments are predictably ludicrous, irrational and uninspiring and, therefore, do not warrant the time for a response."
  • (20) Photograph: PR company handout Creatively, it’s all a bit uninspiring, but there are passable moments.

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