What's the difference between tango and waltz?

Tango


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
  • (2) As ever in children's books, when things get too complicated, animal characters can provide a useful way out, but even then, attempts to represent same-sex parenting can attract censure - as revealed by Justin Richardson's And Tango Makes Three , illustrated by Henry Cole.
  • (3) Andrew Eaton, film producer I was a considerable champion in the early 1970s of Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris.
  • (4) Reid recently starred with Derek Jacobi in Last Tango in Halifax.
  • (5) Her greatest acclaim as a screenwriter has come recently, for Last Tango in Halifax and, even more strikingly, Happy Valley , but she has dipped her pen into most of the defining soaps and kitchen-sink dramas of the British psyche, from The Archers to Coronation Street .
  • (6) Best of times Winning two Baftas for Last Tango in Halifax in 2013, although it made her wonder why it had taken so long.
  • (7) It’s got a bit of an odd time signature to it, it’s not as easy to singalong to as our own national anthem - maybe it’s hard to sing along to something like this when you have a tango rhythm in your bones like the South Americans do?
  • (8) Leading actor Winner: Ben Whishaw – Richard II (The Hollow Crown) Derek Jacobi – Last Tango In Halifax Sean Bean – Accused (Tracie's Story) Toby Jones – The Girl Leading actress Winner: Sheridan Smith – Mrs Biggs Anne Reid – Last Tango In Halifax Rebecca Hall – Parade's End Sienna Miller – The Girl Supporting actor Winner: Simon Russell Beale – Henry IV Part 2 (The Hollow Crown) Peter Capaldi – The Hour Stephen Graham – Accused (Tracie's Story) Harry Lloyd – The Fear Supporting actress Winner: Olivia Colman – Accused (Mo's Story) Anastasia Hille – The Fear Imelda Staunton – The Girl Sarah Lancashire – Last Tango In Halifax Performance in an entertainment programme Winner: Alan Carr for Alan Carr: Chatty Man Graham Norton for The Graham Norton Show Ant and Dec for I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
  • (9) Google's Project Tango, the company's attempt to give mobile devices the ability to understand the layout of the real world, will come to tablets as well as phones.
  • (10) Happy Valley review: understated, refreshing – and with bodies already piling up Read more This should come as no surprise given that Sally Wainwright , the show’s creator, has been responsible for what feels like every British hit save for Downton Abbey in the past few years: Last Tango in Halifax , which also played well in the US; and the crime drama Scott and Bailey .
  • (11) Other actors on the list include Sheridan Smith , soon to be seen playing Cilla Black in an ITV biopic, and Sarah Lancashire, who has featured in BBC1 dramas Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley.
  • (12) At the top of the scoreboard were actor Danny Mac and partner Oti Mabuse, who collected 38 points for their Argentine tango to Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine.
  • (13) All we are is the fugitives and refugees.” Against this backdrop, Portland has one of the world’s best bookshops, Powell’s City of Books , hosts a major tango festival and, for all its craft breweries, the wine scene is just as vibrant.
  • (14) I don’t.” If she’s been involved in a form of dramatic rebalancing, then perhaps her most striking success has been Last Tango in Halifax , which focused on one of television’s most neglected sectors of society: the retired.
  • (15) 7.49pm GMT "Did that terrifying Tango put the willies up you?
  • (16) Having made his name as a rock star in the 1970s and 80s, with hits such as Cat Scratch Fever and Wango Tango, Nugent is now known as much for his vehement advocacy of hunting and his defense of the second amendment as for his music.
  • (17) For his part, Nick Clegg is all dressed in blue and ready to tango.
  • (18) Tonight they’re dancing the Tango to Ne-Yo's 'Beautiful Monster'.
  • (19) She also had success with Last Tango in Halifax (series three is under way).
  • (20) He plays DI Lestrade in the BBC1 series Sherlock and is in the new BBC series of Last Tango In Halifax .

Waltz


Definition:

  • (n.) A dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a whirling motion; also, a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance.
  • (v. i.) To dance a waltz.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fines’ best actor nod fell in the comedy movie category, which he shared with Michael Keaton in Birdman, Bill Murray in St. Vincent, Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice and Christoph Waltz in Big Eyes.
  • (2) As the Big Dog waltzed through a thicket of policy points, dropping drawl-inflected catchphrases, the teleprompter stuttered.
  • (3) Nick Clegg, 24 October 2010 Chopin's Waltz in A Minor played by Idil Biret Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash The Cross by Prince Petit Pays by Cesária Évora Street Spirit by Radiohead Life on Mars by David Bowie Waka Waka 2010 World Cup theme, by Shakira Schubert's Impromptu No.3 in G Flat Major played by Alfred Brendel Book The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Luxury A stash of cigarettes David Cameron, 28 May 2006 Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan Ernie by Benny Hill Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song performed by Kiri Te Kanawa and Utah Symphony Orchestra Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead This Charming Man by The Smiths Perfect Circle by R.E.M.
  • (4) They come to us alive with intentionality, describing themselves in movement, waltzing through the ballroom, trudging through the marsh after wildfowl, racing horses, cutting hay.
  • (5) We have reinvestigated the question of whether exercise stimulates lung growth by determining body weight (BW), lung volume (LV), alveolar surface area (SA), and alveolar number (N) in Japanese waltzing mice, in their phenotypically normal littermates, and in normal albino mice.
  • (6) Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, said: "We now have the European commission reaffirming what everyone knows – that a separate Scotland cannot simply waltz into the EU unchallenged.
  • (7) Would Christoph Waltz be playing a version of famed villain Blofeld in Sam Mendes’s second stint in the 007 hotseat?
  • (8) Despite much of the storyline having been gleaned from the trailers, there is still much speculation around Waltz’s villain, Franz Oberhauser.
  • (9) It follows his film Django Unchained in 2012, a western starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz which won Tarantino an Oscar for his screenplay – but Tarantino says that the new project is not connected.
  • (10) They make a nice couple, and I think they might do quite nicely provided he doesn't start doing Tony Blair impressions mid-Viennese waltz.
  • (11) This was simple stuff as Navas waltzed beyond Trémoulinas down the right, rolled the ball to Bony, and he beat Rico.
  • (12) Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona was named best comedy, while Pixar's Wall-E was named best animated feature, and animated documentary Waltz with Bashir received the best foreign language film prize.
  • (13) Ministers fearing the worst will be indulging in gallows humour with their private offices; those in a more optimistic frame of mind might be turning their thoughts to a bright tie to be photographed in when they complete their hoped-for happy waltz out of No 10. Who is safe?
  • (14) Similarly, gay SNL star McKinnon’s Ghostbusters character is never explicitly outed, but a few lines hint at her sexuality, while director Feig gave a “grinning, silent nod” in an interview with the Daily Beast when asked if she was gay, prefacing it with the comment: “When you’re dealing with the studios ...” And even the flashy reboot of Tarzan was set to have a kiss between Christoph Waltz’s flamboyant villain and an unconscious buffed-up Alexander Skarsgård , but it was chopped after test audiences were said to be left perplexed by it.
  • (15) However, the rate of decline of the EP was slower in kanamycin-treated guinea pigs and old waltzing guinea pigs.
  • (16) That would mean, in effect, a four-year process with Britain waltzing out of the bloc some time after the scheduled 2020 election.
  • (17) "I had a dream last night where Evra and Suarez came face to face they suddenly took each other in their arms and began to waltz beautifully around the pitch while the crowd hummed the Blue Danube," trills Rick Harris.
  • (18) We started setting up, and waltzing around a few musical things, and he was complaining about how loud we were and that we were playing everything wrong.
  • (19) You’ve goaded this sleeping giant, the ordinary licence fee payer’s docile spirit animal, into expressing an opinion on something more controversial than Judy Murray’s Viennese Waltz?
  • (20) The neurological mutant whirler mouse, one of several strains of waltzing mice, may be suitable as an animal model for testing studies relative to hyperkinesis.

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