What's the difference between preconceived and spectacular?

Preconceived


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Preconceive

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are several preconceived notions among members of the nursing profession about hospice care.
  • (2) The term "Multiple therapy" is used to describe the combined use of more than one therapist for one patient following a preconceived plan (German: "Komplementärtherapie").
  • (3) The methodological problems in applying this approach, however, may lead to foisting upon clinical observation preconceived paradigms of pathogenesis.
  • (4) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
  • (5) Despite all this, its unusual toxicity and the many preconceived notions about Se continue to confuse attitudes toward the safe uses of selenicals.
  • (6) "You can see how some members of the jury can come along with preconceived ideas.
  • (7) They think what they think of her.” One significant way for Clinton to overcome such preconceived notions, Zelizer said, would be to sell voters on what her presidency would represent: a historic breakthrough as the first woman to become president of the US.
  • (8) Children's testimony can be influenced by an overly authoritative or ingratiating attorney stance, an attorney's preconceived notions, age-inappropriate questions, and the child's limited attention span.
  • (9) Further studies using other genetic markers are in order, as well as changing certain preconceived notions on blood groups of American Indians.
  • (10) The authors postulate that nurse training and attitudes lead to a narrow focus; avoiding preconceived concepts is necessary for preventing OBPN.
  • (11) Extensive searches which are not limited to a preconceived consensus sequence are carried out.
  • (12) We thought you would let us show you how our school met all the criteria you had outlined in your framework but instead you found what you needed to back up your preconceived idea.
  • (13) I lived in such a melting pot that I never grew up with a preconceived notion of ‘people’.
  • (14) Robinson said he had "no preconceived notion of guilt or innocence" about Bergdahl.
  • (15) We all have our preconceived ideas of how things should be, will be and need to be.
  • (16) Only with a preconceived and coordinated plan can the surgeon fully employ the necessary skills in the management of these serious injuries.
  • (17) He said "we would never select or manipulate data in order to arrive at some preconceived or unrepresentative result".
  • (18) The report echoed Kabureka's assessment that the move by established banks to turn away remittance companies were "guided more by preconceived notions of risk than by actual risk".
  • (19) Cage is methodical in rebutting preconceived notions about himself.
  • (20) The new stem is easy to apply and makes it possible to regulate anteversion precisely, and above all, to satisfy the preconceived biomechanical requirements.

Spectacular


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.
  • (a.) Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play.
  • (a.) Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
  • (2) Uterine inversion is exceptional and spectacular, although treatment is simple if diagnosed early.
  • (3) An opening sequence described as “spectacular” by Amazon insiders – featuring 6,000 extras in the Californian desert, according to some reports – is estimated to have cost £2.5m alone.
  • (4) If the attacker's plan was to make important ideas disappear down the memory hole, it looks as if it has backfired spectacularly.
  • (5) In the last 2 decades, the application of new techniques in neuroanatomy has led to spectacular advances in our knowledge of the structure and function of the human spinal cord.
  • (6) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
  • (7) It is clear that a truly spectacular increase in our understanding of the biliary circulation has occurred during the past 5 years.
  • (8) The benefit derived from the application of recemic epinephrine with intermittent positive pressure was confirmed 15 and 30 minutes later by means of a double blind study; the improvement was swift and spectacular, but temporary; therefore, such treatment must be given only in hospitals, since relapses may show up two to four hours later, making in dangerous to send the patients home or to apply to ambulatory cases.
  • (9) The effect of tiapride on the various manifestations of agitation was also spectacular and rapid, and the authors confirm the excellent tolerance of the product.
  • (10) The national anthems Nothing to say about the Indian anthem, but the New Zealand one sounds like the theme tune for an 1960s ATV variety spectacular.
  • (11) I thought it was an interesting film, the music was spectacular.
  • (12) Woods certainly appears to have exorcised the demons that have haunted him in recent years, after his world collapsed in spectacular circumstances four years ago.
  • (13) They were there to say they had done a spectacular job.
  • (14) Rudd's spectacular fall is a fate that the now former PM, a proud man who some say is driven by a quiet rage, will find difficult to accept – he shed tears in his farewell address .
  • (15) The only entirely original stage work from this period was the spectacular one-man show Needles And Opium in 1991, which intermingled stories of love and addiction from the lives of Jean Cocteau and Miles Davis with an account of the meltdown of one of Lepage's own long-term relationships.
  • (16) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
  • (17) It's all in the name One of the German media's favourite facts about the now former defence minister is his quite spectacular name.
  • (18) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
  • (19) In experimental research of the skin microvasculature the most spectacular technique was that of a human skin chamber as originated by Branemark.
  • (20) I had imagined that this would be an interesting journey, if not spectacularly scenic, since this landscape is infamously flat.