emphases
Example Sentences
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To the Greeks, with their love of measure, their instinctive avoidance of the "too much," emphase in letters or other arts was irritating and distressful.
From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
To the French the word emphase has come to mean, not emphasis, but fustian.
From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
All Browning’s genius seemed to him emphase, cleverness, curiosity, “cockneyism.”
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
The French are Hellenic in their dislike of emphase and of originalité, a word which comes to mean not so much originality as eccentricity.
From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
