What's the difference between renaissance and revival?

Renaissance


Definition:

  • (n.) A new birth, or revival.
  • (n.) The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and the similar revival following in other countries.
  • (n.) The style of art which prevailed at this epoch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the past decade, the quinolone antimicrobial class has enjoyed a renaissance with the emergence of the fluoroquinolone subclass.
  • (2) Spanish renaissance In contrast, Spanish has held up remarkably well, due to its resilience at GCSE and growing awareness of the number of people around the world who speak it.
  • (3) In ancient Rome and during the Renaissance compression by means of leaden plates was a well-known treatment of cancer.
  • (4) The facial appearance is similar to a Renaissance cherub with its gaze toward heaven.
  • (5) It will also star Tony Hale, known for his hapless characters in Arrested Development and Veep, and Natasha Lyonne, currently enjoying a career renaissance for her role in Netflix series Orange is the New Black.
  • (6) Such myths were transformed by Renaissance artists such as Titian into alluring sensual painting.
  • (7) Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation expresses it thus: "From the Pythagoreans onward, through the Renaissance to our times, the oceanic feeling, the sense of participation in the mystery of the infinite, was the principal inspiration of the wingèd and flat-footed creature, the scientist."
  • (8) Next to an ornate Renaissance gate, the hall where the "English comedians" first acted still stands.
  • (9) The movement is part of the current feminist renaissance.
  • (10) No representative from the Scottish National party, which has placed a moratorium on fracking, had accepted Ineos’s invitation to attend the ceremony marking the renaissance of one of Scotland’s largest employers.
  • (11) The coalition's much-touted manufacturing renaissance is so far confined to a roundabout of hi-tech firms in east London, and British industry remains largely a bit-player, making and assembling parts for foreign companies.
  • (12) That's why Italians talk as though they're singing lovely operatic arias and had a Renaissance, while in Finland conversations so often go like this – First lugubrious man: "This beer's good."
  • (13) It does feel like British chocolate is making a renaissance after being in the doldrums for a few decades.” As well as its network of shops, Hotel Chocolat owns a cocoa plantation on St Lucia, which is home to a luxury hotel where a two-week stay costs up to £10,000.
  • (14) Such pitfalls of political art in the era of Hitler and Stalin help to explain why the greatest, most perceptive work of art of the 30s – not to mention the 20th century – was made by a man who up to then had seemed more interested in sex, sun and the destruction of Renaissance perspective than the urgent affairs of the day.
  • (15) For three days at the end of January, the Renaissance hotel in Washington DC fills up with television executives from around the world.
  • (16) It’s the start of a French renaissance, and I hope a European one.” He said he wanted to bring back ambition and “not play on fears but transform them into energy”.
  • (17) A survey by Renaissance Capital found that nearly half of the country's middle class (defined as an average monthly income of $500-$600) were planning to buy fridges, freezers and other white goods, "suggesting a consumer boom is under way".
  • (18) Writing in the Observer , Rogers, whose architectural partnership designed the Millennium Dome and the National Assembly of Wales, states that the “brilliant garden bridge will enhance our public realm and reconnect the city, strengthening London’s renaissance, celebrating the river, creating an oasis of calm and beauty, and opening up new perspectives on London”.
  • (19) Instead, western Ukrainian nationalism meets support as 'national renaissance' from pundits like Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum.
  • (20) Late Renaissance – no good.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'The organic nature of the city is just incredible' ... Kowloon was merged with the main Hong Kong island for the 2012 game Sleeping Dogs.

Revival


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
  • (n.) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
  • (n.) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.
  • (n.) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
  • (n.) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
  • (n.) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
  • (n.) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
  • (n.) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc.
  • (n.) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
  • (2) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
  • (4) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
  • (5) While demand in the US remains sluggish, Toyota has benefited at home from a revival in demand for its Prius petrol-electric hybrid, Japan's best-selling passenger car for the past five months.
  • (6) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
  • (7) Fear of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome and other blood-transmitted diseases has created a revival of autologous transfusion during cardiac surgery.
  • (8) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
  • (9) The present data further demonstrate that a subpopulation of B cells which were functionally deleted during aging can be revived in vivo with 7m8oGuo.
  • (10) While the results reflect antiandrogenic and antispermatogenic action of V. rosea, the selective retention of the spermatogonia provides scope for the much desired revival of spermatogenesis on cessation of the treatment.
  • (11) The definition of the blurring of narrow beam rotation radiography is revived.
  • (12) JP Bean tells the story of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, "not an easy task", added Cocker, "especially when the events in question took place many years ago and may have involved the consumption of alcohol".
  • (13) It has been the UK's view that a violation of Iraq's obligations under resolution 687 which is sufficiently serious to undermine the basis of the ceasefire can revive the authorisation to use force in resolution 678.
  • (14) Earlier this month China devalued its currency in a move aimed at reviving its slowing economy.
  • (15) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
  • (16) The Times editor, James Harding, recently decided to revive the supplement following reader complaints at his decision to scrap it seven months earlier .
  • (17) Designed seven years ago by Foggo Associates , the 24-storey spam tin has been revived by one of the world’s biggest pension funds, TIAA-CREF.
  • (18) Ukraine peace process: leaders agree roadmap to revive talks Read more By far the biggest shock, however, has been just how much money Ukraine’s politicians seem to stash away in hard cash.
  • (19) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
  • (20) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.