What's the difference between ravisher and smasher?
Ravisher
Definition:
(n.) One who ravishes (in any sense).
Example Sentences:
(1) The "institution", still in her teens, in ravishing close-ups, was now driving Montgomery Clift to murder his pregnant girlfriend in George Stevens's A Place in the Sun.
(2) Rameau reminded his readers that mathematics is as important in music as it is in astronomy, and saw no conflict between the charts and formulae that fill his treatise and his ravishing operas and instrumental music.
(3) To your left appears one of the most ravishing curves of golden sand you will ever see.
(4) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.
(5) The only objectionable thing is his determined use of the word "ravish", that split second of ambiguity.
(6) Then the food starts arriving: innovative and ravishing.
(7) South Africa held its first multiracial election 20 years ago on Sunday, defying bombs, bluster and the threat of civil war to conjure a spectacle of voters in long, winding lines that ravished the world.
(8) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.
(9) As for the future of Diana, the second sister born in 1910, it's only necessary to take a look at the series of family group photographs that dot the various Mitford compendia: a ravishing blonde Elspeth at 12, metamorphosing into a steely Nordic heartbreaker of 19, the age at which she escaped the shackles of family life through marriage to the likeable but apparently uninspiring son of a Tory grandee.
(10) The show’s most memorable lines have come from her – whether it’s telling 16-year-old Lauren Platt, after she had sung How Will I Know, “I’m so excited right now I could slap you”, or suggesting she’d be up for mud wrestling with Fernandez-Versini (“That’s quite hot, I’d like to do that”), or telling Ben Haenow he made her want to go home and ravish her husband.
(11) Henri Fantin-Latour is forgotten compared with his friend Manet but his pink-tinged flower paintings are ravishing.
(12) His unsayable thing about women is that they [we] all want to be ravished.
(13) The hit single Starman brought instant success for the album, while Bowie’s ravishing stage costumes and sexually provocative performances (following his carefully timed claim in a Melody Maker interview that he was gay) triggered fan enthusiasm unseen since Beatlemania.
(14) The galleries have taken seven years to fill with more than 1,800 ravishing objects.
(15) They (we) have ravishment fantasies, because it means "if you enjoy it, it's not your fault".
(16) He knew the ravishing speed and the split-second timing of his punches were fractionally out of kilter.
(17) (1974); and, as Charles Underhill, he produced two 17th-century romps featuring Captain Fantom, a soldier of fortune described in John Aubrey's Brief Lives as a "great ravisher".
(18) I think, for me at least, it’s the humour – quietly visual, where a joke might be the way Duck ravishes a slice of bread – and the way its tone avoids the usual force-feed of bonhomie.
(19) They are led by the two US trade papers Variety and the Hollywood Reporter; while neither are acclaiming Magic in the Moonlight as a Blue Jasmine level late-masterpiece, Variety is considerably kinder , with its chief film critic Scott Foundas describing the film as "a high-spirited bauble that goes down easy thanks to fleet comic pacing, a surfeit of ravishing Cote d’Azur vistas and the genuinely reactive chemistry of stars Colin Firth and Emma Stone".
(20) That's so ravishing, to be that young and see subculture."
Smasher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.
(n.) Anything very large or extraordinary.
(n.) One who passes counterfeit coin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite worrying he would become a "professional dream smasher", he soon learned not to fret about the rejections he was doling out.
(2) The Who's pioneering instrument-smasher could find he's met his match with one of the bespoke nylon-bodied guitars made by Olaf Diegel, professor of mechatronics at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand.
(3) In presentations given to a packed auditorium at the laboratory on Wednesday morning, and webcast around the world, the leaders of two research teams, who worked independently of each other, said they had spotted a new particle amid the microscopic flashes of primordial fire created inside the world's most powerful atom smasher.
(4) Comedy plays are not eligible for the award, but what about a show such as Humphrey Ker's excellent Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher , a character monologue so neatly scripted and performed, with appropriate lighting and sound cues, that it could easily be described as a one-man play?
(5) (1972), Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1973), and a book about SF art called Great Balls of Fire (1977).
(6) The world's most powerful atom smasher hunts for signs of new physics by slamming subatomic particles together at nearly the speed of light in an 18-mile round tunnel beneath the French-Swiss border.