eminence
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The podcast has appealed to Gen-Xers who came of age with Ellis, Tartt and Lethem as their best-known — if not best-loved — literary eminences.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2021
Born in Brooklyn in 1935, Mel Leipzig studied painting at Cooper Union and Yale, where his interest in realist portraiture was discouraged by such eminences as Josef Albers.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2021
Ms. Carrà later studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, also in Rome, working as a teenager with eminences including movie star Marcello Mastroianni.
From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2021
Mr. McCarthy, who likes to attend Hollywood award shows and big-ticket galas, brandished phone photos of himself over two days with other eminences, including Mr. Trump, Pope Francis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kobe Bryant.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2021
These "knolls, or hillocks,” the two men wrote, were "natural eminences of sand.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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