What's the difference between magnificence and pomp?

Magnificence


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the sixth frame of the evening he sunk a magnificent long red and careered on his way to a 131 clearance to extend his lead in the match to 9-5.
  • (2) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
  • (3) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
  • (4) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (5) Castin' makes me feel good: Ghostbusters' diverse team is a victory Read more Dan Aykroyd heralds Ghostbusters cast as 'most magnificent women in comedy' Read more “There’s three drafts of the old concept that exists,” said Aykroyd.
  • (6) Cohen crossed the ball long from the right and Hurst rose magnificently to deflect in another header which Tilkowski could only scramble away from his right hand post, Ball turned the ball back into the goalmouth and the German’s desperation was unmistakable as Overath came hurtling in to scythe the ball away for a corner.
  • (7) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (8) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
  • (9) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.
  • (10) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
  • (11) General Richard Mills of the US Marines said when he took over from UK troops in Sangin last year that their performance had been "nothing short of magnificent".
  • (12) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
  • (13) The views are magnificent, so it may be worthwhile to pay a bit extra to overlook the water.
  • (14) When he sits back at the piano and plays Raspberry Beret and Starfish and Coffee and Girls and Boys, they’re beside themselves, and understandably so: he sounds magnificent.
  • (15) So then, Italy v Uruguay for a place in the last 16: you have to say that's magnificent.
  • (16) "I would like to thank our employees for their magnificent response to the torrid market conditions," Rothermere said in the DGMT annual report .
  • (17) To do so for the benefit of so many others is magnificent.
  • (18) Illustration: akg-images What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city.
  • (19) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.
  • (20) At the very top is a panoramic view as far as the southern Sri Lankan coast and a tiny cafe selling magnificent short eats, tea and jaggery (cane sugar).

Pomp


Definition:

  • (n.) A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
  • (n.) Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
  • (v. i.) To make a pompons display; to conduct.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using a simple fluorometric assay for alpha-glucosidase activity of cultured amniotic cells, we have monitored two pregnancies from families at risk for Pompe's disease.
  • (2) In two infants with Pompe's disease, intralysosomal glycogen was identified in the adrenal cortex and medulla, thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, pancreatic islets, and pituitary gland.
  • (3) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
  • (4) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
  • (5) In contrast, it is highly unlikely China's leader could find fault with the welcome laid out by the Obama administration: a private White House dinner tonight to be followed later in the week by a full state banquet, a 21-gun salute and all the pomp and circumstance of a review of the troops.
  • (6) There is a case to be made, and Francis made it, but as the bills come in one might recall that in her pomp the Thatcher government stopped the funeral grants paid to poor families if it emerged that any of the family members were striking miners.
  • (7) "For the most part the rewards for acquiescing to GOC demands are risible: pomp-full dinners and meetings and, for the most pliant, a photo op with one of the Castro brothers.
  • (8) Nothing in the brief statement justified the huge pomp and circumstance that surrounded it.
  • (9) Evans was in his pomp as Radio 1's breakfast DJ, listened to daily by 7.5 million people.
  • (10) From January 1985 to January 1990, measurements of acid alpha-D-glucosidase activity in amniocytes or chorionic villus samplings were done for 24 pregnant mothers who were carriers of Pompe's disease.
  • (11) Its practicality has been demonstrated in Pompe's disease in which there is a deficiency of acid alpha-1,4-glucosidase (E.C.3.2.1.20).
  • (12) Two-stage gel studies demonstrated an estimated 90% reduction of this protein in Pompe's disease.
  • (13) Helicopters buzzed overhead, tanks thundered past, and fighter jets snaked into the sky during Burma's annual Armed Forces Day celebration on Wednesday, where one unexpected guest sat watching the pomp and ceremony from a front-row seat: opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi .
  • (14) The pH-activity profile of the enzyme from urine of patients with late-onset Pompe's disease can not be distinguished from that of the normal urinary enzyme.
  • (15) Staining techniques for demonstration of various stored materials include: 1) toluidine blue at pH 2.8 for acid mucopolysaccharide in skeletal muscle fibers in Pompe's glycogenesis 2, 2) one-step trichrome stain for nemaline myopathy and for abnormal mitochondria in X-linked infantile cardiomyopathy, 3) periodic acid-methenamine silver stain for glycolipid-containing lysosomes in I-cell disease (mucolipidosis 2), 4) Sudan black B stain for lipid in skeletal muscle fibers in Reye's syndrome, infantile lactic acidosis, Leigh's infantile subacute necrotizing encephalopathy and Jansky-Bielschowsky late infantile ceroid lipofuscinosis, 5) iron stain for iron in cardiac and skeletal muscle fibers in thalassemia with advanced hemosiderosis, and 6) autofluorescence for "ceroid" in skeletal muscle fibers in Jansky-Bielschowsky disease.
  • (16) As he repeats that plea Frazier slips into an impersonation which sounds less like Ali in his fast-talking pomp than his old foe after Parkinson's disease had made his speech slurred and halting.
  • (17) Pompe's disease is characterised by an absence of lysosomal alpha-glucosidase, but this enzyme is also inhibited by Castanospermum australe seeds.
  • (18) "I love that a country capable of extraordinary pomp and ceremony can still retain a spiky irreverence towards its establishment.
  • (19) Her pulmonary hypertension resulted from respiratory muscular atrophy and alveolar hypoventilation caused by Pompe's disease.
  • (20) On Thursday a commentary carried by the official Xinhua news agency described Obama’s visit "a carefully calculated scheme to cage the rapidly developing Asian giant”, adding that "the pomp and circumstance Obama receives … cannot conceal the fact that Tokyo has become a growing liability to Washington's pursuit of long-term interests”.