What's the difference between seething and soothing?

Seething


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seethe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
  • (2) But there is something else seething in the collective unconscious.
  • (3) "Park Chu-Young of South Korea has scored from a free-kick, against Nigeria," he quietly seethes.
  • (4) In 1961 there had been riots in Warmbaths, and all this time the Transkei had been a seething mass of unrest.
  • (5) Baltimore’s under-fire criminal justice system risked antagonising its already seething local community on Wednesday by suspending legal procedures and imposing bail bonds of up to half a million dollars on the city’s most impoverished residents.
  • (6) As central Manama once again seethed, troops and riot police were nowhere to be seen.
  • (7) We wouldn’t notice much difference between them and the current lot, and it would save all that boasting and seething reported in the same issue ( Bong!
  • (8) We have said you can’t waste a game now and that’s what we’ve done,” said a clearly seething Newcastle manager.
  • (9) Writing in the Observer under the headline "Michael Gove, using history for politicking is tawdry" , Hunt seethes, "the government is using what should be a moment for national reflection and respectful debate to rewrite the historical record and sow political division."
  • (10) ITV news executives are privately seething about the BBC’s response to its revamped 10pm bulletin and have accused their rival of “arrogance”.
  • (11) Are there 250 people in there seething and about to jump the fence?” asked Downey.
  • (12) The city had been in a state of seething unrest since 29 December 2012, when Jyoti Singh, a medical student in her 20s, died of terrible injuries inflicted on her by a group of men who raped and tortured her on a bus.
  • (13) When soldiers eventually broke their siege and killed the ringleaders, Bin Laden was seething.
  • (14) "Those frames long haven't existed here," Volkova replied, seething.
  • (15) Three months later, on 21 September 1991, they fought again at a seething White Hart Lane and in front of an ITV audience of 12m viewers.
  • (16) Of the Moir storm, writer Tim Brown has decried in Spiked Online "a spectacle of feelings, a seething mass of self-affirming emotional incontinence, a carnival of first-person pronouns and expressions of hurt and proxy offence".
  • (17) Addressing the seething anti-establishment and anti-Jewish sentiment that is increasing among young Muslims is one of the many key challenges for the future.
  • (18) The kitchen window looked down over Trinity Place, now seething with people.
  • (19) Clegg shows he is still seething with David Cameron for failing to secure Tory support for House of Lords reform, as he explains why the prime minister's hopes of pressing ahead with a reform of parliamentary boundary sizes is now for the birds.
  • (20) Called simply September, the painting shows a generic image of the towers, sun-struck in the autumn morning and seething with smoke.

Soothing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soothe
  • () a. & n. from Soothe, v.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
  • (2) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
  • (3) The latter practice has previously been ascribed to imprinting and the soothing sound of the mother's heartbeat on the infant.
  • (4) Mourinho's gloating will have done little to soothe Tottenham's anger.
  • (5) One peer, Lord Best, back in the House of Lords debate in 2011 , caught the deep importance of how a home should soothe and protect.
  • (6) For the past year, she has given the same talk at up to four "home parties" daily, fuelled by little more than coffee and larynx-soothing Malva tea.
  • (7) His neat nails were polished like pebbles and his voice had a soothing, almost balsamic, tone.
  • (8) Weirdly, the muffled Doppler effects of several thousand passing SUVs was quite soothing.
  • (9) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
  • (10) But that still puts the UK's deficit, at more than 12% of GDP, in line with that of crisis-hit Greece, and the numbers gave new momentum to the increasingly bitter row about what should come first: soothing the concerns of the bond markets with public sector cutbacks, or making sure the economy has recovered before switching off the life-support.
  • (11) Three precious points appeared to be theirs and they stood not only to crown a fightback that had hardly been trailed, but to soothe the pain of the 6-0 humbling at Chelsea from last Saturday.
  • (12) Cameron’s EU deal: the verdict from our panel | Matthew d’Ancona, Daniel Hannan, Tom Clark and Natalie Nougayrède Read more There was still a long way to go and the deal was far from sealed, Dave soothingly cajoled, but “what we’ve got is what I basically asked for”.
  • (13) It is a bit rich to expect us to state exactly how we’ll whip our troops when Cameron himself still can’t come out and say what he’ll do with his own cabinet.” Behind the scenes, “sources close to Corbyn” could usefully soothe pro-European nerves: “As an internationalist party, our inclination is of course to remain within the European family, but it would be irresponsible to declare our hand now, leaving Cameron to barter away British employment rights.” However Corbyn votes himself, it is perfectly plain that he will not have the authority to whip individual Euro-enthusiast MPs to vote against their consciences, so he may as well concede that at once.
  • (14) The results suggest that, in the presence of variation in feeding practice greater than that which is typical for our society, feeding interval may be a significant factor in early (but not later) crying behavior; furthermore, this effect is independent of and additive to the soothing effect of short response latency.
  • (15) In the three-minute video, ‘From Candles to Computers: Bringing Electricity to China’s Jing Jin village’, she says: “The coal industry is a major force in eliminating fuel poverty in China but, more importantly, it’s a critical driving force for the phenomenal economic growth China has experienced.” The video comes with a soothing soundtrack of traditional Chinese music, and is beautifully shot.
  • (16) Particular facets examined include the "soothing" function of medication, the placebo effect, and medication compliance, as well as countertransference difficulties encountered in administering the medicine.
  • (17) Their encouragement may soothe nervous Republicans but they have conflict of interest issues of their own .
  • (18) She also took the family's pet rabbit to soothe Hardwick, who had severe learning disabilities and a mental age of about four.
  • (19) If the prime minister had hoped to soothe old tensions, however, he failed – at least partially.
  • (20) Being responsible was more helpful to fathers who saw their infant as responding positively to soothing techniques and as smiling and laughing frequently, but less helpful to fathers who perceived their infant as being fearful and distressed by limitations.

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