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His mother was cold and controlling; his father and sister both committed suicide (in 1907 and 1929, respectively); his beloved brother died of alcoholism in 1926, just as Hiss was beginning his superbly calculated rise out of the family muck to suave and well-tailored eminence in Roosevelt's State Department.
High above the town, the ruins of a 17th-century convent, Nossa Senhora do Desterro, loom like a ghostly gray eminence.
One relatively unfamiliar hill in Rome, Monte Testaccio , is a sizable, artificial eminence near the Tiber south of the city, rising a hundred feet above the surrounding level.
Eszterhas is the Shakespeare of the Jerry Springer crowd, the eminence greasy of Hollywood.
When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer, who could have played Dickens's Mr. Tulkinghorn, speak grandly of the court of nisi prius (pronouncing it NICEY PRY-US), an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court . Just as any speaker may, for the sake of euphony (or vanity) flourish an occasional eminence grise or mirabile dictu , may not a lawyer plume himself now and then with an ab initio or even a mutatis mutandis , not to “unite the priesthood’ but to savor his own sonority, as a bird sings also for itself?