What's the difference between medieval and oberon?
Medieval
Definition:
() Alt. of Medievalist
Example Sentences:
(1) In places it succumbs to over-commercialisation but this is still one of the finest medieval towns in Europe.
(2) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(3) Earlier, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , said the heightened security measures could remain in place on a permanent basis as he warned of the dangers posed by a "medieval, violent, revolting ideology".
(4) "It is time for parliament to consider the increasingly urgent matter of the Prince of Wales's status and to modernise this medieval situation," Berkeley said.
(5) Scott's ambitious design for the hotel and station clearly plundered the architectural treasuries of medieval Europe.
(6) The medieval church spires of rural England are to bring superfast broadband to the remotest of dwellings, with the Church of England offering their use as communication towers.
(7) Album four, The Future Is Medieval , debuted on the band's website this summer.
(8) He warned of the “medieval barbarism” of the terrorist group Islamic State, formerly known as Isil or Isis in its efforts to set up a “terrorist state”.
(9) Kids can roll their sleeves up and dig for skeletons, dress up as Romans, handle neolithic artefacts, go metal detecting, learn medieval royal etiquette, take a lesson in stone-age survival skills, and take part in period-focused workshops.
(10) Though often described as "medieval", militant groups are actually extremely modern, with a worldview built from a mixture of very contemporary religious and secular sources.
(11) We need to be really, really clear that they are basing their whole world view on a kind of medieval, violent, revolting ideology that, by the way, is a total and utter aberration and distortion of what the vast, vast, vast majority of the millions of Muslims around the world believe in.
(12) Which isn’t, perhaps, so different to the role of priests and believers in medieval Britain.
(13) At this time the dramatist begins with the reception of the medieval mystery plays, Calderon and the greek-oriental myths.
(14) Wanting to improve the view from his house, and provide some extra work for local stonemasons, Allen commissioned this almost Disneyish idea of a medieval ruin.
(15) He relates details of the recent digital intrusion – purportedly sparked by his decision to relocate a 1947 memorial to Soviet war dead from a park in Tallinn, which angered some ethnic Russians living in Estonia's medieval walled capital – when I visit him at his family farm, near Abja Parish , some 40 miles inland from the Gulf of Riga.
(16) In it, Rostow tried to find a common pattern in the history of the economic growth of different societies, from the traditional society, such as medieval Europe or ancient China, where a high proportion of the population was engaged in agriculture and trade exchanges were largely local to an age of high mass consumption, in which society generates a sustainable surplus to improve living standards.
(17) Galavant, a medieval comedy musical filmed in Bristol, features appearances from Ricky Gervais and Vinnie Jones.
(18) Given the unusual grandeur of the Buddhist temples and palaces in the settlement, Mes Aynak might once have been a theocracy like Tibet, with the monks exploiting the copper reserves as a source of power and profit, not unlike the Cistercian monks who dominated the pre-industrial economy in many parts of medieval France and England.
(19) On virtually every street corner, there's a gorgeous church designed by Christopher Wren to fill the gaps after the great fire of 1666, which destroyed the medieval city.
(20) You'll pedal through picture-perfect fishing villages, past medieval turreted towers and traverse Lahemaa, Estonia's first national park ( visitestonia.com ).
Oberon
Definition:
(n.) The king of the fairies, and husband of Titania or Queen Mab.
Example Sentences:
(1) Approximately 1,056 dwellings were located in the Oberon Shire by the interviewers; household interviews were obtained from 789 of them.
(2) Photograph: All Grid Deborah Oberon, marketing and alliance manager from AllGrid Energy , says: “The houses in the Barkly area had no insulation and in the summer they used to get so hot that not even flies would go into them during the day.
(3) But he rose rapidly through the ranks to play Oberon in Peter Hall's 1962 Midsummer Night's Dream, the Antipholus of Ephesus in Clifford Williams's classic bare-boards Comedy of Errors in the same year, and Edmund in the international tour of Peter Brook's King Lear (1964).
(4) Oberon is clothed in vaguely Middle Eastern robes, bearded and crowned.
(5) Her face is truculent; she stares up and away from Oberon, who is apparently being restrained by a sharp-faced Puck.
(6) Then there is Contradiction: Oberon and Titania (1854-58), depicting the quarrel over the Indian Boy, which was painted for William Charles Hood at Bethlem; and The Fairy Feller , painted for George Henry Haydon, also at Bethlem.
(7) More noteworthy than the "black Heathcliff" angle is Arnold's decision to shoot only half of Brontë's novel (which has been adapted for screen several times, most famously with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the title roles ).
(8) In 1983 an outbreak of Akabane disease occurred in calves in New South Wales between Coolah and Dunedoo at the foothills of the Liverpool Range, from Molong to Oberon in the Blue Mountains and in the Bylong Valley.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest misslucyknight quotes from Much Ado About Nothing Facebook Twitter Pinterest hopbopstop : "This is my favourite from a Midsummers Nights Dream, I had to learn the whole script in three weeks at school when I played Oberon."
(10) But that hasn't stopped attempts to do so, of which the 1939 William Wyler movie - with Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Catherine, and doing away with more than half of the novel - casts a particularly long and deceiving shadow.
(11) In one, the Oberon Grill (516 2nd Street), I found a framed newspaper story from 1911 describing how Jack London had got into a fist fight in that very place.
(12) She toured as Sally Bowles in I Am A Camera and appeared as Titania (to Robert Helpmann's Oberon) in an Old Vic production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, first at the 1954 Edinburgh festival and then on tour in north America.