What's the difference between sunset and swansong?

Sunset


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Sunsetting

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
  • (2) Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, raised concerns about the sunset clause.
  • (3) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
  • (4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
  • (5) The entry pattern was more uniform than the exit which showed two distinct peaks around sunset and after midnight.
  • (6) The speedboat drivers pay close attention to the water conditions on the strait and try to approach the Iranian coast just after sunset.
  • (7) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
  • (8) Reflecting on the possibilities for top-flight football in San Diego, Hejduk says: “Why don’t you build a stadium right where you can watch the sunset in the background and have fish tacos in the stadium?
  • (9) By sunset, around 2,000 had left voluntarily in 42 government buses for government-run camps, but thousands were still left in Idomeni overnight.
  • (10) I don’t want to start naming names of living American directors because I’ll leave someone out and they’re friends.” He does, however, observe that with the exception of the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men and The Sunset Limited , which he directed, Hollywood has bungled adapting the novels of his friend Cormac McCarthy.
  • (11) But Cameron agreed to a "sunset clause" time-limiting the bill to 2016, a full-scale review of intercept laws, a new oversight board and restrictions on the number of public bodies that can make use of surveillance data.
  • (12) Steel industry sources pay tribute to the support that successive governments have given in general terms to the industry through apprenticeships, innovation and science, but there is a lingering sense that steel is a sunset industry; like the smog above the plant, a pall of inevitable doom hangs over its future.
  • (13) When fed with a purified diet, however, both tartrazine and Sunset Yellow FCF at 5% level in the diet resulted in a marked retardation in growth, an unthrifty appearance of the fur and death of 50% or more of the rats within an experimental period of 14 days.
  • (14) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
  • (15) Sit with your feet in the sand around tables cleverly designed out of cable drums, watching the sunset and enjoying a cold Greek beer.
  • (16) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
  • (17) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
  • (18) The maximum frequency is observed during the dark phase, the peak values occurring just after sunset and before sunrise.
  • (19) White Sands national monument Sunset at White Sands national monument, New Mexico.
  • (20) Normally industrial action of this sort, especially in the UK, would have the likes of the Institute of Directors telling us the cost in millions before sunset.

Swansong


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) New Zealand and Australia have a special relationship so it was great to see our two sides square off for the first time in a Rugby World Cup final.“ New Zealand’s Richie McCaw tempted to play on after World Cup triumph Read more Carter was named man-of-the-match for his 19-point effort, a fitting swansong for one of the game’s finest flyhalves who was sidelined by injury when his team-mates edged France to win the 2011 final on home soil.
  • (2) But Thompson's two-hour swansong before John Whittingale's culture, media and sport select committee was dominated by one topic more than any other – the BBC's coverage of the Queen's diamond jubilee and, specifically, Fearne Cotton's royal-themed sick bags.
  • (3) In addition to announcing the album's title and release date, she referred to the record as "Rick Wright's swansong".
  • (4) Even when ambition gets the better of Russell Beale, as when he played Edgar to Robert Stephens's swansong Lear at Stratford, his are quirky, watchable mistakes.
  • (5) The head of one of the most moderate teaching unions has warned ministers not to assume this week's strike would be her members' swansong.
  • (6) For Bernanke, who built his reputation on studying the policy pitfalls that marked the runup to the Great Depression and the "lost decade" in Japan, it would be a neat swansong to announce the beginning of the end for QE, which he was instrumental in dragging out of the textbooks and into the real world.
  • (7) Skinner famously prompted Thatcher to say how much she was enjoying herself during her swansong performance after her downfall but before she had formally resigned as prime minister.
  • (8) You can't get much more eventful than Zinedine Zidane's swansong appearance.
  • (9) The European Championships would have been my swansong.
  • (10) What’s more, this will be the last release to feature Pink Floyd’s late keyboard player Rick Wright; it is, as Samson put it, his swansong.
  • (11) At the moment it is looking more like a hay one than a concrete one.” World leaders in Cannes, November 2011 Photograph: Guardian In Greece, crowds flocked to Syntagma Square for their prime minister’s swansong.
  • (12) Average audiences for the Channel 5 version of the show since it launched amount to 1.7 million compared with an an average of 3.2 million who watched the first five episodes of the programme for its swansong series on Channel 4 in 2010.
  • (13) So let’s listen to the swansongs of the Simpsons and Mitchells of this world and dance with abandon to the sweet, sexist music.
  • (14) Jeremy Paxman’s Newsnight swansong on Wednesday night attracted the flagship BBC2 daily current affairs programme’s biggest audience for almost three years.
  • (15) Like Sagna, the Pole is out of contract in June and he is expected to leave, meaning that the cup final could be his swansong.
  • (16) David Squires on … Louis van Gaal's Manchester United swansong Read more “The managers of English players, they don’t need to go away for a month before the start of a competition,” Cantona continues.
  • (17) The 2014 Tour should have been David Millar's swansong.
  • (18) Dundas took his bow at the end with his design team, a sign that this was a swansong.
  • (19) Bloomberg's swansong was in equal measure a justification of his past and marketing for his future.
  • (20) I'd prefer to think of it as a swansong, though, because Fleming belongs in the past, gold-plated or not.

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