eminence

Example Sentences

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That was just one of many suggestions that Dudamel, 42, would, before too long, join the ranks of New York music directors, a group that has included eminences like Mahler, Toscanini, Bernstein and Boulez.

From New York Times

It sits on a man-made eminence overlooking the Potomac River.

From Washington Post

Forster’s “Howards End,” a mantra that doubles as the novel’s epigraph and a theme the literary eminence mined across his career, amid the twilight of the British Empire.

From Washington Post

The district attorney was the picture of a gray-haired eminence, a figure of rectitude in a circus of a city.

From Washington Post

Like 7-year-old soccer players all congregating around the ball, Washington eminences want to cluster around the issue de jour, which today is climate.

From Washington Post