What's the difference between otherworldly and tangible?

Otherworldly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Summer's vocal is no less wonderful – ethereal and otherworldly.
  • (2) It makes us believe that mental illness is something otherworldly.
  • (3) A veteran Westminster player, he lives in Salisbury, not London, most of the week, in the same otherworldly cathedral quarter as the former residence of Edward Heath.
  • (4) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
  • (5) But the price paid for Autonomy was otherworldly – it smacked of a management team that was too anxious to make a hardware-for-software switch.
  • (6) Croatia, Morocco and Iceland also provide otherworldly backdrops to the backstabbing and bribery of Westeros and beyond.
  • (7) The show launched an actor, who – fictional superpowers aside – looks somehow tweaked, airbrushed, otherworldly, with eyes so powerfully transfixing they threaten to bore holes through your screen.
  • (8) "Of all the sites, it was the most depressing and slightly sordid," she says, "while other places often had an air of melancholy or seemed slightly otherworldly at dawn.
  • (9) He has suffered from alopecia - hair loss - since childhood, and his otherworldly air is heightened by an eerie lack of eyebrows.
  • (10) and Greyjoy fight one another while otherworldly ice demons rise in the northern tundra, and the Westerosi equivalent of nuclear weapons – dragons – are reaching maturity on a distant continent.
  • (11) I can only vouch for the R&R to be found in its calm, otherworldly landscape.
  • (12) She doesn’t date, is a vegan, sleeps very little, quotes Jane Austen by heart, works nonstop, dresses like Steve Jobs and as the New Yorker helpfully informs us: “several times a day she drinks a pulverized concoction of cucumber, parsley, kale, spinach, romaine lettuce and celery.” She sounds like someone who is tremendously fun to have at Scrabble night, and absolutely otherworldly … in fact, she sounds like a unicorn.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘An extraordinary, alien, otherworldly creature’: David Bowie 1947-2016 - video tribute After a 1962 schoolyard punch-up, the pupil in David’s left eye remained permanently dilated, having the serendipitous effect of lending him a vaguely unearthly appearance (the thrower of the punch, George Underwood , remained a close friend and later designed Bowie’s album artwork).
  • (14) The shaman sings these ancient South American chants and shakes this palm branch, and it sounds crazy-otherworldly.” Ayahuasca has gained something of a cult reputation among celebrities from Sting and Paul Simon to Lindsay Lohan and the Klaxons, though it remains illegal, and its implication in the death of a British teenager in Colombia earlier this year has cast a shadow over the rapturous accounts made by some of those who have tried it.
  • (15) In the first, St Matthew and his fellow taxmen, all in contemporary dress, are sitting at a table in a darkened room when Christ enters and, pointing (in a gesture taken from Michelangelo’s Sistine ceiling), calls on him to join the church: at this moment of revelation the startled Matthew is spotlit by a diagonal shaft of otherworldly light.
  • (16) Which may or may not be a good idea depending on your view of that mix-and-match defence testing its weak points against Barcelona’s otherworldly attacking trio, the football equivalent of riding out to face the three musketeers with a breadstick in each hand.
  • (17) Residents say they never tire of gazing at the city centre's sublime, otherworldly architecture.
  • (18) "The TV shows are so good, so intriguing, that it's almost otherworldly."
  • (19) These have an otherworldly feel to them, as if formed by a giant poking his rough fingers deep into the island from above in a misguided mission to supply its inhabitants with swimming pools.
  • (20) It begins in an abyss of double-bass sonority, and builds to a screaming, discombobulating climax of mind-bending power; then there's a quieter, otherworldly section, before the terror of the first section returns.

Tangible


Definition:

  • (a.) Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
  • (a.) Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
  • (2) These incentives provided employees with evidence of tangible support for continuing education.
  • (3) In what is being hailed as one of the first tangible signs in a change of outlook for Greece, the European Investment Bank has also agreed to inject up to €750m into the cashed-starved Greek economy with immediate effect.
  • (4) Tony Abbott and Barack Obama: the Australian PM hopes the G20 can achieve something tangible under his presidency.
  • (5) This week, Shenhua Australia chairman, Liu Xiang, turned up the pressure on Hunt, telling Guardian Australia that, after eight years, “Shenhua has spent $700m and has little tangible progress to show for this investment in NSW.” If Hunt gives the green light, Shenhua will begin work on the first of three pits covering 3,500 hectares, from which it will export nearly 270m tonnes of coal over the next 30 years.
  • (6) The tangible, emotional and informational functions of social support were measured as aggregate values across support sources.
  • (7) She is, like a lot of women are, supported by organizers working to keep momentum going for tangible, systemic change, even in the wake of such collective, ongoing pain.
  • (8) One procedure employed a tangibly reinforced operant-conditioning paradigm for pure tones, and the other test was based on a modification of operant conditioning for obtaining speech-reception thresholds.
  • (9) We're asking you to test this thing which is less tangible and less transactable, which is your privacy."
  • (10) Recent work of the Health Education Project (HEP) at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, has demonstrated tangible ways of eliminating some of the barriers that limit consumers in receiving health services in an out-patient setting.
  • (11) I haven't seen Good Morning Britain because it's on in the morning, a time of day I dismiss as mere myth, as tangible as the eighth dimension, but it had a controversial debut.
  • (12) The focus is on how commissioning can add tangible value and make positive changes for our healthcare clients.
  • (13) Park has repeatedly said the door to dialogue with Pyongyang is open, but insists the North must first take tangible steps towards abandoning its nuclear weapons programme.
  • (14) If it is to be successful, any behaviour change approach that aims to encourage the take-up of a product or service will have to provide real, personal and tangible advantages for today’s new consumers.
  • (15) Tangible, emotional and information support did not change pre- and postnatally for women who breastfed.
  • (16) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
  • (17) Examples of social marketing are then provided from developing countries and are analyzed in groupings defined as tangible products, sustained health practices, and service utilization.
  • (18) For longer-term planning, make sure you have tangible, realistic objectives.
  • (19) This paper discusses in qualitative terms these tangible and intangible benefits and the factors that impact their realization and maximization.
  • (20) Kiir and Machar met last weekend in the Kenyan capital Nairobi for the latest push to strike a peace deal, but rebel spokesman Mabior Garang said they “failed to bear any tangible results”.