80 collocations for emphasising
He began his address to the jury by emphasising the fact that a fellow creature's life depended on the result of their deliberations.
" Most writers on the education of young children have emphasised the importance of what is most inadequately called sense training, and it is here that Dr. Montessori takes her stand with her "didactic apparatus.
"Late or not, I do take it," answered Vernon, pausing an instant in his walk to emphasise the words.
It is essential to emphasise this consciousness of the thing under discussion in connection with two or three words that are, as it were, the key-words of this war.
The chronological order, in so far as it has been followed, emphasises the dividing line between Lamb's poetry and his verse.
Froebel emphasised the "crying need" for connection of school and life, pointing out how the little child desires to imitate and the older to share in all that, as Professor Dewey puts it, is "surcharged with a sense of the mysterious values that attach to whatever their elders are concerned with."
The whole teaching of the Broad Church School tends, of course, to emphasise the humanity at the expense of the Deity of Christ, and when the eternal punishment and the substitutionary atonement had vanished, there seemed to be no sufficient reason left for so stupendous a miracle as the incarnation of the Deity.
" She held up her finger to emphasise the smallness of this number, and withdrew it again, hastily.
Mrs. Chick, Mr. Dombey's married sister, emphasised this opinion.
A barbed-wire fence divided his sterile hills from our fertile valleys, and emphasised sharply the difference between a Government claim and a Spanish grant.
He had a good deal to say about the danger there was from the teeth of animals or of human beings when enraged, and he emphasised his remarks by the application of a pencil of lunar caustic to each of the marks left by the sharp white teeth.
About every form connected with the marriage service the Church threw its halo of mystery and symbol to emphasise the sacred character of the union.
But so far from wishing to emphasise the weakness of identification he admitted that the prisoner went to Riversbrook with the intention of committing a burglary.
The war has merely emphasised a depression which had already fallen on the industry.
But these served only to emphasise the prevailing desert tones.
He emphasises "the cruelty and waste of irresponsible competition," he admits "the licentious use of wealth," but he also recognises "the tyranny and the spiritual death of an iron-bound Socialism," that violent and venomous form of Socialism, which Mr. Punch this week has represented under the apt symbol of a clinging, hampering, and suffocating Serpent.
It has emphasised the necessity of non-violence and laid down that the attainment of Swaraj is conditional upon the complete harmony between the component parts of India, and has therefore inculcated Hindu-Muslim unity.
The conditions of Italian art, on the other hand, favoured an opposite tendencyto particularise, to enforce detail, to emphasise the artist's own ideal or the model's quality.
It may seem surprising that one out of every sixteen persons who are accustomed to use accurate expressions should speak of their mental imagery as perfectly clear and bright; but it is so, and many details are added in various returns emphasising the assertion.
There seems little to sustain such a judgment other than the desire of writers to emphasise a comparison between him and his brother.
Nor must I over-emphasise the seriousness of our public interest.
He adopts an antique fashion of dress, in order to emphasise his personality.
Its importance consists in the fact that it was the first literature to emphasise the value of form in poetry, to formulate rules, and, in short, to show that art must be based upon scientific knowledge.
And yet there was a subtle difference from her previous manner of writing that only emphasised the finality of our separation.
The great theme of this epistle is that faith in Christ is the one way of salvation for all mankind, Jew as well as Gentile, and its significance is this, that it contains if not the whole teaching of Paul, that essential part of it which presents and emphasises the all-sufficiency of this faith.
