What's the difference between memoir and personal?

Memoir


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Memoirs

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his memoirs, Reynolds recalls how, just before the Great Train Robbery took place, he had smoked a Montecristo No 2 cigar: "The thought ran through my mind: I have brought Cuba to Buckinghamshire."
  • (2) Bill Gates betrayed his ailing business partner and tried to deprive him of his share of the Microsoft fortune, according to a scathing memoir from Paul Allen , the company's billionaire co-founder.
  • (3) But Choi had come to the meeting with Kim prepared, according to her husband's memoir.
  • (4) It's hard to believe that her memoir, My Salinger Year , has not yet been published (it comes out this week).
  • (5) Tony Blair, in a new edition of his memoirs , argues powerfully that our political system is broken.
  • (6) She was often less secure than she sounded – as PR adviser, Tim Bell’s memoirs, serialised (where else?)
  • (7) I do want to rule the world.” Bowie was also getting unhealthily interested in the occult; in her memoir, his then wife Angie Bowie describes how he was convinced that the indoor pool in their house in Doheny Drive was possessed by the devil , which led to the pair of them attempting an exorcism.
  • (8) In my memoir Out of Place (1999) I described the strange and contradictory worlds in which I grew up, providing for myself and my readers a detailed account of the settings that I think formed me in Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon.
  • (9) Bin Laden, who was 54 when he died, also had a copy of The America I Have Seen, a vitriolic memoir of a short trip to the US by the Egyptian thinker and activist Syed Qutb , considered the godfather of modern jihadi thinking and hanged in 1966.
  • (10) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
  • (11) A similar situation occurred in the US last year, when the defence department paid $47,000 to destroy a former army intelligence officer's Afghan war memoir.
  • (12) After Hollande spent two hours on French radio in a patent relaunch of his presidency, a film producer announced that a biopic of Trierweiler’s revenge memoir, Merci Pour Ce Moment (Thank You For This Moment), is now in the works.
  • (13) One-offs such as The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974), The Good Terrorist (1985) and Love, Again (1996), so different from each other, and from the books belonging to schemes and series, revealed her enduring fascination with literary experiment.
  • (14) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
  • (15) She also spoke of her "suspicion" of memoir as a form: a form that her younger sister the novelist Margaret Drabble – who spoke at the festival on Thursday but was notably absent from Byatt's event – undertook in her 2009 book The Pattern in the Carpet, about the writers' aunt Phyllis.
  • (16) Carville’s aide-memoire gets an outing whenever politicians are losing an argument about something that isn’t the economy and want to pretend it doesn’t matter.
  • (17) Some of the Los Alamos scientists, Tibbets wrote in his memoirs, had their heads in the clouds.
  • (18) Although in her memoir and her new book, Chua traces some of the problems with what could be called, almost interchangeably, triple-package or tiger parenting, there is no doubt she is essentially in favour of it.
  • (19) • Revolution 2.0: A Memoir from the Heart Of The Arab Spring, by Wael Ghonim, is published by Fourth Estate (£14.99 and ebook).
  • (20) Then, earlier this month, a tentative legal settlement was reached that required Frey and his American publisher, Doubleday, to provide refunds to readers who felt they were defrauded in buying a book classified as memoir.

Personal


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.
  • (a.) Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.
  • (a.) Done in person; without the intervention of another.
  • (a.) Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
  • (a.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.
  • (n.) A movable; a chattel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
  • (2) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (3) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
  • (4) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (5) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (6) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
  • (7) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
  • (8) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
  • (9) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
  • (10) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
  • (11) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (12) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
  • (13) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
  • (14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
  • (15) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
  • (16) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
  • (17) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
  • (18) Of 573 tests in 127 persons, a positive response occurred in 68 tests of 51 patients.
  • (19) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
  • (20) Fifteen patients of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were detected out of 2500 persons of Maheshwari community surveyed.