What's the difference between irenical and sirenical?
Irenical
Definition:
(a.) Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory; peaceful.
Example Sentences:
(1) By the time we start producing, the prices will have gone up,” said Uganda’s energy minister, Irene Muloni.
(2) Predictably perhaps, black artists have been most successful in the best original song category, with Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder and Irene Cara among the five winners.
(3) He pulled up beside us and got into the back seat of Irene’s car.
(4) Irene Tu : ‘Read up on history and take self-defense classes’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest I’m going to spend the next couple months reading, taking self-defense classes, and writing a ton of jokes.
(5) Irene Joan Sims, actor, born May 9 1930; died June 27 2001
(6) Photograph: Irene Baque for the Guardian A leading international lawyer, Felicity Gerry QC, had hoped to halt the move with an emergency injunction and a judicial review, but that proved to be impossible for legal reasons.
(7) Lead content was determined in the skeletal tissue of 82 individuals representing two black and two white Colonial American populations: Catoctin Furnace, College Landing, Governor's Land, and Irene Mound.
(8) Read more Irene Namusuubo Guloba, the headteacher, says: “Around 250 of our pupils did not come back this year.
(9) Home And Away stalwart Lynne McGranger, who's played Irene Roberts since 1992, is having trouble getting her head around legal highs.
(10) Irene Fogel Weiss, born in 1930 in Bótrágy, Czechoslovakia, now Batrad, Ukraine.
(11) "Perhaps Irene puts it best – she certainly puts it most often – when she tells Tod that he has no soul."
(12) Yours sincerely, Irene B. Rosenfeld 7 September 2009 Dear Roger, Thank you for your letter in response to our discussion on 28 August and the letter I sent to you as a follow-up outlining our possible offer (a "Possible Offer") for Cadbury plc ("Cadbury").
(13) Their hits included Lead Belly's Goodnight, Irene , the Israel folk song Tzena, Tzena Tzena and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine : hardly the anthems of a coming revolution, but in 1952, at the height of the anti-communist witch hunt, their known sympathies got them blacklisted by radio and TV stations and concert promoters.
(14) The review, to be led by Irene Curtis, the president of the Police Superintendents’ Association, is to be used to detail the use of targets in each force and to analyse their impact on police officers’ ability to fight crime.
(15) Kraft boss Irene Rosenfeld had phoned Cadbury's chairman Roger Carr on Sunday to set up the secret 11am meeting, and the two shook hands on the £12bn deal in the sumptuous five-star surroundings.
(16) 1.32pm GMT The latest medal table Norway still lead , with the Netherlands moving up to second after Irene Wust’s triumph.
(17) So her fellow Dutch lady Irene Wust wins gold, the former champion Martina Sablikova takes silver – and Olga Graf wins Russia’s first medal of the Games.
(18) Merkel has held the top spot since 2006, except in 2010 when she was surpassed by three American women: first lady Michelle Obama, Mondelez International CEO Irene Rosenfeld, and media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
(19) The instant Irene Adler's scarlet-tipped fingers extended across the frame on Sunday night, it seemed certain that Steven Moffat's rewriting of Sherlock Holmes's famed female adversary would cause some consternation.
(20) Mas, who governed Catalonia from 2010 to 2016, will appear at the high court in Barcelona on Monday along with former vice-president Joana Ortega and former education minister Irene Rigau.
Sirenical
Definition:
(a.) Like, or appropriate to, a siren; fascinating; deceptive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(2) Emergency medical services providers routinely respond to emergencies using lights and siren.
(3) Every now and then some rich Oga or Madam comes along in their bulletproof cars and wailing sirens, and distorts the delicate equilibrium of this body of traffic.
(4) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(5) At 6pm it sounds like a war zone outside the office: you can hear nothing but sirens and the almost continuous drone of helicopters overhead.
(6) horns of cars, sirens of emergency vehicles and alarm signals of railroad crossings, and then displays them as vibration to the driver.
(7) The strange thing is, society is perhaps not quite in the same shape as most of the political elite - or for that matter, the siren voices who would have you believe that "everyone's middle class nowadays" - suggest.
(8) As dusk fell across the city a motorcade of flashing lights and sirens escorted him to the airport, where he thanked his hosts and organisers and the vice-president, Joe Biden, escorted him to the plane.
(9) Updated at 11.10pm GMT 10.29pm GMT @RanaGaza, on Twitter here , uploads audio of sirens in Gaza City and two strikes moments ago.
(10) IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) A few minutes ago, sirens in Tel Aviv sent residents running for shelter.
(11) As Operation Protective Edge launched, sirens sounded over large areas of Israel's south and air raid shelters were opened.
(12) They should ignore the siren voices about Ukip pacts, which would put the party back for years.
(13) Video by Chris Whitworth and Alex Purcell Victimhood is a real, brutal fact, and Ben Carson's Holocaust logic denies that | Gayatri Devi Read more Asked about abortion, another siren call to voters who dominate the Republican primary, Carson said he would appoint supreme court judges to overturn Roe v Wade , the 1973 decision that enshrines the right.
(14) They moved rapidly, but without lights or sirens; they were not heading into an emergency.
(15) In Trafalgar Square at 6.40pm, sirens could be heard from almost all directions.
(16) "I was here since 7am and just heard sirens and it was over so fast," said Daniel McKenzie from Darlington.
(17) Their faces stared up from the dusty stretch of tarmac outside New Cairo's police academy, a silent roll call of butchery laid out like a human carpet amid a cacophony of chants, sirens and camera clicks in the morning sun.
(18) The British Wind Energy Association said it was delighted that Miliband had "rightly ignored the siren calls to abandon wind as the driving force for reaching the [low carbon] targets".
(19) I’ve never seen so many police here, against the blare of sirens.
(20) Its rocket fire has caused fear and panic among Israelis in south and central Israel, with sirens sounding many times a day warning people to seek shelter.