What's the difference between lulu and monstrosity?

Lulu


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It might have made a more satisfying end to the story if his final album hadn't been Lulu, a collaboration with Metallica that Reed claimed was the best thing he'd ever done, but received some of the worst reviews of his career.
  • (2) The officer had a Saudi accent and he asked the whole bus: "Which of you went to Lulu Square?
  • (3) By the time Sophia is 14 she has performed Prokofiev's Juliet as a Young Girl at the Carnegie Hall in New York while Lulu, aged 11, auditions for the pre-college programme at the world-famous Juilliard School.
  • (4) So Chua stopped making all the decisions for Lulu, allowing her to leave the orchestra and take up tennis instead, allowing her to practise the violin only when she felt like it.
  • (5) For two weeks after the attack on Lulu we kept seeing a military aircraft (a US-built F-16 type) every day at about 7.30pm, flying low over the villages, backing up the police helicopters which we see over our heads all day long in the villages.
  • (6) While her husband maintained a grape harvest, Lulu grew, and foraged for, leaves and vegetables and herbs.
  • (7) The minute he'd manouevered his creative partner out of the band, however, the man Cale called Lulu started writing songs on which he pined for his college sweetheart Shelly Albin like a lovesick teenager .
  • (8) Of these, Dusty Springfield was the most technically proficient and the most temperamental; Lulu had the most powerful vocal cords but weaker songs; Sandie Shaw had a trendy, kooky image and songs to match; and Black benefited hugely from her association with the Beatles – John Lennon and Paul McCartney composed several of her hits – and their manager Brian Epstein.
  • (9) MAN, the new talent showcase run by Lulu Kennedy and Topman, featured newcomers Liam Hodges and Nicomede Talavera along with Bobby Abley, who has previously shown with the initiative.
  • (10) Sophia is currently at Harvard and Lulu was recently accepted at Yale.
  • (11) It is also intriguing, and slightly alarming, to see that Lulu is pretty much the only woman in the whole Top 40 vinyl singles chart .
  • (12) "Lulu handed me her 'surprise', which turned out to be a card," writes Chua in her explosive new memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
  • (13) Lulu joined him on a bibulous book tour of the States.
  • (14) And I want to thank the likes of Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant, Lulu, Gary Moore, Gary Brooker, Sam Browne who have all been part of the band.
  • (15) Lulu Xingwana, the women's minister, said: "I was disappointed Oscar got bail but I respect the decision of the court."
  • (16) First, Lulu hacks off her hair with a pair of scissors; then, on a family holiday to Moscow, she and Chua get into a public argument that culminates in Lulu smashing a glass in a cafe, screaming, "I'm not what you want – I'm not Chinese!
  • (17) Lulu is a character of terrifying intensity and exposure for any soprano.
  • (18) When Lulu turns in a poor practice session on the piano, Chua hauls her doll's house to the car and tells her she'll donate it to the Salvation Army piece by piece if she doesn't have The Little White Donkey mastered by the next day.
  • (19) In 2005, Topman got together with Lulu Kennedy of Fashion East to launch a show featuring three new names at London fashion week: MAN was born.
  • (20) I just have to be it, I just have to be Lulu, or Agnès."

Monstrosity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Can someone get this monstrosity out of my kitchen?"
  • (2) The former chancellor said it was a bureaucratic monstrosity damaging the interests of the City of London.
  • (3) But this week, the committee rooms in Hove's brutalist town hall witnessed the birth pangs of a monstrosity which may yet dwarf any of the hideous items on Jenkins's list.
  • (4) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don't drink as a rule, but one proud little abode cowering in the shadow of the monstrosity that is the Beetham Tower is a lovely little old Manchester boozer.
  • (5) The specialist heritage architect Jean-François Cabestan, warned the plans would produce a monstrosity with " the aesthetics of a James Bond villa ".
  • (6) The constitutional sideshow highlights the full monstrosity of the government’s benefit cuts: worse is still to come.
  • (7) Most days I have to walk past this London monstrosity.
  • (8) In Latvia and across the three Baltic states, the octogenarian's conviction that Stalin surpassed Hitler in monstrosity is commonplace.
  • (9) Lawson, who was chancellor from 1983 to 1989 under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, said the EU had become "a bureaucratic monstrosity" and "the case for exit is clear".
  • (10) Athens is a place of contradictions and surprises, where ancient beauty meets contemporary architectural monstrosity and extreme kindness and hospitality clash with unexpected rudeness and ignorance.
  • (11) So it's as if some gigantifying artist – probably not Claes Oldenburg, more likely Jeff Koons – has come along in the middle of the night and transformed it into this solemn monstrosity.
  • (12) But instead of shutting this monstrosity, the camp is being rebuilt.
  • (13) Part of me is excited at the prospect of that kind of history being made, but then I think about what sort of monstrosity Sepp Blatter would commission to replace it and hope Holland win this just so the old man can't ruin yet another aspect of the World Cup."
  • (14) It does the same to most of the gluey, plastic, molten-cheese-smeared, iceberg-lettuce-bedded monstrosities that pass for Tex Mex in the US as well.
  • (15) Raiders of the Lost Ark Facebook Twitter Pinterest While, yes, Ford’s other iconic blockbuster character is somewhat similar to Solo in his eye-rolling caddishness, he’s also equally worthy of reverence, even in the fourth monstrosity.
  • (16) There is no doubt about the monstrosity of the case of the guilty nurse but it may be exemplary for a frequent defensive behaviour against the phenomena of age.
  • (17) We best know this protean monstrosity from its various film incarnations, but it was born in the 1938 sci-fi novella Who Goes There?
  • (18) The demonstration on Saturday is believed to have been targeting the new floating barge hotel, the Bibby Progress, which accommodates up to 635 staff and has been dubbed “a monstrosity” by local people.
  • (19) Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund are supporting the move which came with a new 35-page report: "Gas flaring in Nigeria: a human rights, environmental and economic monstrosity."
  • (20) Witches at Their Incantations (perhaps illustrating his own poem Strega), in the National Gallery, is a hideous nocturnal fantasy of the black sabbath, full of skeletal monstrosities, a hanged man, stolen babies, naked hags and evil brews.

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