What's the difference between philanderer and romeo?

Philanderer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hangs about women; a male flirt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (2) Serious serial philanderers – the Alan Clark kind of politicians – handle such crises more adroitly than the amateurs.
  • (3) In an affidavit, he stated: "The portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect."
  • (4) But the courts appear to be drawing the curtains on the bedroom antics of high-profile philanderers by denying the women their 15 minutes of fame, or infamy.
  • (5) He may not care for effete toffs, but he got on like a house on fire with the posh MP, diarist and serial philanderer Alan Clark.
  • (6) Druggist, obstetrician, builder, lecturer, poet and philanderer, his career was a chequered and eventful one.
  • (7) In particular, the portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests that I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect.
  • (8) Shock value EastEnders: Michelle's teenage pregnancy, 1985 Viewers were kept guessing about the father of Michelle Fowler's child – revealed as Den Watts Emmerdale: plane crash, 1993 The Yorkshire soap began a trend for "stunt" disaster storylines Brookside: lesbian kiss, 1993 UK TV's first lesbian kiss between Anna Friel's Beth Jordache and Nicola Stephenson's Margaret Clemence EastEnders: buried alive, 2008 Philanderer Max Branning is buried alive by his estranged wife EastEnders: gay Muslim on-screen kiss, 2009 Property developer Syed Masood arrives in Albert Square with a girlfriend, but falls for Christian Clarke Coronation Street: tram crash, 2010 The ITV soap marked its 50th ­anniversary with the most spectacular disaster storyline yet
  • (9) Tod T Friendly, doctor and sometime philanderer, is a man whose inner self seems hidden from his passing conquests. "

Romeo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
  • (2) Romeo, described as “the fashion one” of the Beckham children by his former footballer father, made his modelling debut for Burberry in 2013.
  • (3) He then brought further drinks – four gin and tonics, a champagne cocktail, and even a £15 Romeo and Julieta cigar.
  • (4) Gamble and Huff's career spans the history of rock and soul – Gamble sang with a group called the Romeos in the 60s, while Huff's early days reach back further, having played piano on sessions for the rock'n'roll songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, and for Phil Spector.
  • (5) They had become an allegory for unhappy love, a foreshadow of Romeo and Juliet set in the Hindu Kush .
  • (6) The UN commander in Rwanda, Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire, described meeting Bagosora in the first days of the genocide as like "shaking hands with the devil".
  • (7) His journey to the real costume began at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and he was turning heads soon after his graduation with stage performances in Kes and Romeo and Juliet , winning the Manchester Evening News award for Best Newcomer in 2004 before scooping Outstanding Newcomer at the Evening Standard theatre awards two years later.
  • (8) His comments followed a gloomy update from HR Owen, the upmarket car retailer, which said sales of Alfa Romeos and Lamborghinis were falling sharply as City bankers hit by the credit crunch cut back on luxury spending.
  • (9) The "Multiair" engine, to be used initially in Alfa Romeo's Mito supermini car, directly controls air through the intake engine valves.
  • (10) One of the highlights is Mats Ek’s Juliet and Romeo, which, as the title suggests, focuses on the emotional trajectory of its heroine, and uses an arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s music rather than the ubiquitous Prokofiev score.
  • (11) My mind wanders back to the bears and I silently wish Romeo as much luck in finding his mate as I’ve had finding this stunning spot.
  • (12) Bailey said Romeo was an “utter joy” to work with.
  • (13) However, in her book Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, Dana Thomas quotes the designer Romeo Gigli, who employed McQueen in Milan some years later, telling how when working on a new jacket shape in the Gigli studio McQueen was asked to remake it several times.
  • (14) (1982) Virology 120, 441-452; Affabris, E., Romeo, G., Belardelli, F., Jemma, C., Mechti, N., Gresser, I., and Rossi, G. B.
  • (15) He tossed Shakespeare into a modern-day, thinly veiled Miami in the electrifying Romeo + Juliet and sent Nicole Kidman wafting, purring and simpering through bohemian Paris in Moulin Rouge!
  • (16) In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the tragic denouement can be attributed directly to the consequences of the Great Plague.
  • (17) A Balkan choir and a uniquely atmospheric setting should make this a Romeo and Juliet less ordinary.
  • (18) Another critic pointed out that the mayor’s agenda lacked any mention of industry, even though Turin is the longtime home of carmakers Fiat and Alfa Romeo and is considered Italy’s industrial heartland.
  • (19) 1993's Romeo Is Bleeding played on this with Lena Olin's irresistible contortionist mob killer.
  • (20) Born in Los Angeles but raised in Surrey, the British-American actor starting acting as a teenager, later playing in Kes and Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester.

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