Do we say limelight or spotlight

limelight 63 occurrences

I think that WINSTON was the first Commended to my gaze, But very soon I found my eyes Tired by the limelight's blaze Incapable of following His strange and devious ways.

His book is a collection of incidents, reflections, and conversations, carefully assorted and arranged, so as to allow the limelight to glare on the statuesque figure of a mighty Germanic hero, fresh from Walhallaincarnated in the Crown Prince.

William James expressed the same thought some decades later, when he emphasized that the abnormal was but the normal exaggerated and magnified, played upon by the limelight, and therefore the best teacher and indicator of the exact definition and limitations of the normal.

Beard's Neurasthenia leaped at once into the limelight.

As has happened before in medical history, no sooner was the one prodigy reported, than a score of others of the same ilk sprang into the limelight.

"Mr. Ware isn't the first man in the world who has funked the limelight, and from what I can see of him it probably wasn't his fault if things did go a little crooked in the past.

He feared lest in rendering this episode I should turn the limelight upon Trehayne and leave the private of Marines in the shadows.

Now watch!" At this very moment a sudden gust from the sea blew aside the mist, so that a lane opened to the sky, and the moon, ghastly and unnatural as the effect of stage limelight, dropped down in a momentary gleam upon the door of Sangree's tent, and I perceived that something had moved forward from the interior darkness and stood clearly defined upon the threshold.

Their souls had followed it over the footlights, and, floating in the limelight, shone there awaiting the fulfilment of the promise.

To the little man who sweated in the glare of the limelight and juggled desperately with glass balls in a vain effort to steady his nerve it was apparent that his turn was a failure.

Then they'll remember your existence; and if you write often enough you will gradually crawl out of obscurity into the limelight.

Several people in the vicinity became aware of our existence and, feeling the limelight upon me, I again mentioned the lateness of the hour.

Ben Hamza took the place of Ahmed, who went to the rear looking rather pleased to get out of the limelight.

It seemed all right to me to let the old sheikh have all the limelight.

Reputations are mysterious things and not so easily forced, and even if it were possible for a section of the Press to limelight a dozen or so figures up to the legislature, they would still have, I think, to be interesting, sympathetic and individualised figures; and at the end they would be only half a dozen among four hundred men of a repute more naturally achieved.

Hers was a nature which expanded in the limelight; crowded audiences inspired her to outdo herself instead of "fussing" her as they did Oh-Pshaw.

On the one hand those easy gigantic mail-clad figures of the morningone saw them now in a different lighton the other this little black-clad gesticulating creature under the limelight, that pigmy thing with its ordered flow of melodious persuasion, its little, marvellously penetrating voice, John Caterham"Jack the Giant-killer."

This fact, by the bye, can be clearly demonstrated by placing a person in the direct rays from a powerful limelight or electric lamp, and thus projecting his shadow sharply on a smooth white surface.

MARTIN, A. E. Death in the limelight.

Some day would come that great moment when the limelight of the world's wonder would centre on him, and he would hold the stage alone.

LIMELIGHT, a bright light caused by making a stream of two gases, oxygen and nitrogen, play in a state of ignition on a piece of compact quicklime.

He liked to be in the limelight, and had a most extraordinary manner of apparently addressing his conversation to some selected individual, but carried it on in a tone which could be heard throughout the entire room.

The gentleman appointed to crowd Mr. von Wiegand out of the limelight was a former clergyman named Dr. William Bayard Hale, a gifted writer and speaker, who obtained some international notoriety eight years ago by interviewing the Kaiser.

Lost treasure; secret passages; a gentleman rogue storming the citadel; a private chaplain on the premises; a young squire followed by a limelight; sheriff, school-girls and a Sisterhood distributed through the landscape,—and

They are the most personally discussed of all Victorian authors, and the limelight of biography has left few darkened corners in the dark old Yorkshire house.

spotlight 45 occurrences

Marty had successfully represented his college twice in debate, and J.W. had played second on the nine and end in the eleven, doing each job better than well, but rarely drawing the spotlight his way.

It's brought out by some plot lines spoken by two of the chorus girls that he has taken a taxaballoon from the boat and while up in the air he bites the rope of the balloon in two in a fit and falls center stage with a red spotlight on him.

"The curtain went up on what looked like a busy day in Childs', and Wells Hawks was in the spotlight, surrounded by a bevy of blondes and empty champagne bottles.

With his arrival in the spotlight, a sort of perspiring resignation seemed to settle on the audience.

"Don't forget that Indian legend of yours that brought the spotlight down upon us in our freshman year.

In the spotlight there is a square young man dressed in a metallic coat and conical helmet, so as to suggest the famous forty-two-centimetre shellthe shell which makes a hole like a cellar and smashed the Belgian forts as if an earthquake had struck them.

A bright light came through the opening like a spotlight, then faded.

It was as though he were following me with a spotlight.

He looked like an actor held in a spotlight on a darkened stage.

Spotlight madness.

Thomas S. Kelland & Horace K. Kelland (C); 10Aug64; R342977. KELLAND, HORACE K. Spotlight.

KELLAND, THOMAS S. Spotlight.

BEIM, ANDREW L. Spotlight for Danny.

Spotlight for Danny.

Spotlight for Danny, by Lorraine Beim & Jerrold Beim.

Build this spotlight.

The literary spotlight.

Eve In the spotlight: Sarah Bernhardt.

SEE Barber, Edith M. CORLEY, H. W. Spotlight.

Thomas S. Kelland & Horace K. Kelland (C); 10Aug64; R342977. KELLAND, HORACE K. Spotlight.

KELLAND, THOMAS S. Spotlight.

BEIM, ANDREW L. Spotlight for Danny.

Spotlight for Danny.

Spotlight for Danny, by Lorraine Beim & Jerrold Beim.

The Kaiser shared von Hindenburg's glory; he has shared the glory of all victorious generals; such is his histrionic gift in the age of the spotlight.

Do we say   limelight   or  spotlight