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Example sentences for: eminence

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He would like to be considered a wit, perhaps the Samuel Johnson of American letters, but he will never achieve such eminence so long as he churns out gags, assembly-line fashion.
Eszterhas is the Shakespeare of the Jerry Springer crowd, the eminence greasy of Hollywood.
They were at least in part the reaction of a decent and thwarted person tacking out in search of love and eminence.
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?
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.