94 collocations for accentuate

A flavour of the old school, a touch of something different in their mannerwhich is freer and rounder, if they come of what is called a good family, and often more timid and precise if they are of the middle classserves, in these days, to accentuate the difference of age and add a distinction to gray hairs.

I tell you in the most emphatic manner at my command," she went on, turning to the official, and tapping the edge of his desk as if to accentuate her words, "it's impossible that anybody over there in Russia could have known of my arrangements with Mr. James Allerdykeutterly impossible.

But the room itself continued and accentuated the likeness of a ship.

A bright red necktie and patent-leather boots with cloth tops accentuated the decidedly "noisy" impression he conveyed.

The war has accentuated the gravity of the situation, but has also demonstrated certain human characteristics that can be enlisted to correct our course.

In many respects he favours the Bloodhound, and one may often see Dachshunds which, having been bred from parents carefully selected to accentuate some fancy point, have exhibited the very pronounced "peak" (occipital bone), the protruding haw of the eye, the loose dewlap and the colour markings characteristic of the Bloodhound.

Thin to the point of emaciation, a wide striped, ill-fitting dress of some cheap material accentuated the angular lines of her body.

I accentuate my curve of a hunting-horn, Earth speaks in me as in a conch, and ceasing to be an ordinary bird, I become the mouthpiece, in some sort official, through which the cry of the earth escapes toward the sky!

Those who want to accentuate the antithesis between Islâm and modern civilization point rightly to the personal law; here is indeed a great stumbling-block.

Hangings of rose colour broke the sameness and accentuated the purity of the predominate whiteness.

When Mohammed, taking his stand as opposed to Judaism and Christianity, had accentuated the Arabian character of his religion, the Meccan rites of pagan origin were incorporated into Islâm; but only after the purification required by monotheism.

But the initial strain hit every peasant in his pocket and thus greatly accentuated the feeling against Austria-Hungary.

Likewise the growing monetary use of gold accentuated strongly the effects, between 1873 and 1883 of a comparatively small decrease in gold production.] § 4. #Index numbers.

It had for some time been apparent to me that the torpedo and mining work of the Fleet required a larger and more independent organization, and the intention to adopt a very extensive mining policy accentuated the necessity of appointing a larger staff and according it greater independence.

The wax candles shed a radiance upon their immediate surroundings, which accentuated the shadows of each unlighted corner.

The sharpness of the political antithesis served to accentuate the importance of the other differences in such cases and to debar their acceptance as the legal consequence of the difference of opinion that God's mercy allowed.

The annexation of the Philippines by America, and England's treaty with Japan, have accentuated the conflict of interests between the two nations.

A hanging lantern some distance away only served to accentuate the gloom apparently.

From above, the hanging lamp threw strong shadows across their faces, bringing out the deep lines, accentuating the dominant passions.

and he read aloud to her the night's tale told upon the snow, that the poet who insisted that in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love quite understood his business; not that it really required spring in his own case, but the season seemed at least to accentuate his emotions.

They seem to have cared but little to select their types or to accentuate expression, so long as they were able to portray the man before them with fidelity.

In all these considerations Tricoupi stands as much the type and impersonation of the modern Greek in his best phase, and the Hellenic cause lost in his early death the largest exponent of the characteristics of the race I have ever known, but, as fate had it, lost him only when his abilities could only serve to mitigate disaster and accentuate failure.

The Polynesians must have remarked that inbreeding accentuated the faults in a strain, making for an accumulation of them.

Gigantic in reality, the gray night and the lurid light of the fires made him look larger, accentuating every wicked feature.

"I guess Grace meant certain kinds of happenings; didn't you, Grace?" "Of course," and the rather willowy creature, whose style of dress artistically accentuated her figure, caught a pencil that was slipping from a book, and thrust it into the mass of light hair that was like a crown to her beauty.

94 collocations for  accentuate