26 Verbs to Use for the Word prominence

We cannot too deeply deplore their fatuity, in giving prominence to such abstractions.

The younger men evinced a marked tendency to leave Lichfield, to make their homes elsewhere, she noted, and they very often attained prominence; there was Joe Parkinson, for instance, who had lunched at Oyster Bay only last Thursday, according to the Lichfield Courier-Herald.

When Islam had somewhat departed from the character which it first manifested in moral sternness and fiery zeal, and had established itself in various parts of the world on a basis of commerce or of science, rather than that of its original inspiration, various off shoots of the faith began to assume prominence.

" He first gained prominence by his book of verse, Yawps (1900).

Per contra he reflected that it was handier to get in people's way and prevent their reaching any prominence than to be willing to lead them to great heights.

* I can't help feeling that ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY'S chief aim in Up the Hill and Over (HURST AND BLAOKETT) was to write a convincing tract for the times on a subject which is achieving unhappy prominence in America as in our own police-courts.

Othmar has lost that prominence which once was his.

The Spectroscope is specifically adapted to sweeping round the Sun's limb, with a view to mapping out the prominences, and is also available for work on Stars and Nebulae, the dispersive power being very readily varied.

" A later work on Christian Ethics, which acquires special prominence through its place in "The International Theological Library," edited by Drs.

Many of them have become dim as to their meaning by oblivious time; but enough is evident to indicate the prominence of hope in ancient faith.

"Do you really think that the work merits such prominence as you say will be given it?"

It is worth while also to note the prominence given to play, music, poetry and story-telling pictures, domestic occupations and gardening, all preceding the "systematic and ordered occupations" which to some have seemed so all-important.

Then, as he lost sight of her, he remembered with shame the selfish prominence he had given to his own troubles.

To some of her literary admirers, this serious tone was distasteful; they were inclined to resent the prominence given to moral ideas in a quarter from which they preferred to look merely for intellectual refreshment.

Often the statesman, no less than the soldier, plays an all-important part in winning the new land; nevertheless, it is usually true that the diplomatists who by treaty ratify the acquisition usurp a prominence in history to which they are in no way entitled by the real worth of their labors.

There have been instances to suggest that a news report filed by a staffer has been accorded more prominence both in space and display than a report sent by a rural correspondent.

When one stranger has a splendidly preserved blonde wife and the other a splendidly preserved brunette wife, both of whom have won social prominence by years of hard fighting and aloofness, there remains nothing for the two men but to follow the lead, especially when directly under the eyes of the leaders.

There, in the midst of the hollow, stood, grim and desolate, the dark brick-built Cradle, casting its shadow to the south; the four-corner prominences shooting out like horns, and so unlike the habitation of a human being, yea, unlike any composition of brick and lime ever reared by the hand of a genius for house-making.

We resisted, and still resist, your innovation; and thence comes the greater prominence of the question.

Her arms and neck, which wanted contour, and yet were of snowy whiteness, were skillfully draped in her many-colored robe so as to cover all defects; and a chaplet of pearls, mingled with diamonds, concealed the slight prominence of the collar-bones, and descended low on the white and well-veiled bosom.

Sometimes, the fascination with the ear panels diminishes the prominence of even the mast-head, the very name of the publication.

She had never enjoyed social prominence, and she was thankful that at the Hunt Ball at least her presence could not be expected.

The eyelids were thinned, the lips pinched, the corners of the mouth drawn down, the cheek bones too prominent, and the neck visibly shrunken, which exaggerated the prominence of the chin and larynx.

From thence to the bottom of Exmouth Gulf, more than one hundred and fifty miles, the coast is low and sandy, and does not exhibit any prominences.

At the point of the toe this membrane sometimes shows a V-shaped depression, into which fits a inverted V-shaped prominence on the inner surface of the wall at this point.

26 Verbs to Use for the Word  prominence