emphases

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The difference was not just one of opposing political ideologies but of vastly different cultural and human emphases.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2024

Where Hearts had made the right choices in key moments, Celtic too often took the wrong option with passes, crosses and emphases.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2023

There were emphases on ballhandling, shooting from midrange, being aggressive, driving to the basket and finishing around the rim.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2023

The emphases include the preservation and restoration of the liberal arts, including the “great books,” and the traditions of Western civilization.

From Washington Times • Apr. 13, 2022

Literature would be a language which dispenses with gesture, facial expression, tone of voice; which is, in its halts, accelerations and retardations, emphases and concessions, the apotheosis of conversation.

From The Psychology of Beauty by Howes, Ethel Dench Puffer