How To Use Eminently In A Sentence

Eating has always been preeminently a human, communal and convivial pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
The idea seemed eminently feasible. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
But he said the county, with its lakes and mountains, had an eminently marketable image that could play well with the wider public.
The answer is that the clubs lay at the heart of industrial Lanarkshire and football was pre-eminently the game of steelworkers, miners and shipbuilders.
[146] Johnson's observations on Addison's writings may be well applied to those of Cicero, who would have been eminently successful in short miscellaneous essays, like those of the Spectator, had the manners of the age allowed it. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity

Both genres, so formulaic, overdetermined by clichés and stereotypes, are eminently accessible for parody.
His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.
His books on diplomatic history were eminently readable.
Recently Fuchs 14.133 has reported his experience in cornea-grafting in sections, as a substitute for von Hippel's method, in parenchymatous keratitis and corneal staphyloma, and though not eminently successful himself, he considers the operation worthy of trial in cases that are without help, and doomed to blindness. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
And let's not forget that News Corp. has shown itself to be eminently fallible in the online realm: This is the company that spent $580 million to buy the social-networking sinkhole known as MySpace. News Corp. launches its tablet-only The Daily app for the iPad
I don't myself find these questions entirely uninteresting, but are they really the preeminently "serious" kinds of questions a writer of fiction can pursue? Saying Something
Vecchi composed some excellent church music, but his fame rests on his light madrigals and canzonettas, written in an eminently singable and attractive style.
I could never deny, in looking back upon what followed, that I was eminently stockish; and I must say the ladies were well drilled to have so long a patience with me. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
Although Neville was supremely competent both as a newspaper journalist and as a broadcaster, I always thought of him pre-eminently as a man of the arts.
However, having seen the questionnaire upon which this research is to be based, I do hope ministers, poor lambs that they are, have been included in this eminently worthwhile exercise.
It is remarkable to notice in the history of French cathedrals how many of them were rebuilt just at the time when the pointed style, which may be called preeminently the Christian style of architecture, had come to birth almost simultaneously in various countries of Europe. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1
Unfortunately, while it is eminently pragmatic, that doesn't mean that it's actually morally right.
Certain words drift into the realm of nothingness to be eminently forgotten.
Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance. Chapter I
Todd says that the White House is attempting to get "command and control" over a situation that's substantively not too eminently commandable or controllable. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
Nor can we close this article without some allusion to the translators of and adapters from the Irish, of whom two stand out pre-eminently, Lady Gregory in prose and Dr. Sigerson in verse. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Before his involvement in the Piltdown excavations, Teilhard was nothing more than a young priest with aspirations in science, who had collected fossils and pre-eminently fossil sea urchins, in Egypt.
Prices for these upscale public courses range from the eminently affordable to bordering on the budget buster.
This is one idea that seems eminently transferable to the average cramped terraced home. Times, Sunday Times
Her breeding and background made her eminently acceptable in royal circles.
He transformed vascular surgery, inventing procedures that made some of the gravest conditions of the main vessels eminently treatable. Times, Sunday Times
Water shoes, on the other hand, may not look sporty, but they're eminently sport-worthy, with features like grippy, sensitive soles, lacing systems for rough water, and exit valves for quick drying.
In Scotland, the bannock was pre-eminently made with barley (or bere meal, bere being a primitive form of barley that does better in acid soils); in England, more often of oats.
Workplace health and safety is an eminently worthy topic, but not one that many people bother to follow closely.
Everything about this car is classic, yet it remains eminently affordable.
By no means a pleasant experience, this is a supermarket after all, but an eminently bearable one with zero stress.
Czerny's music is eminently playable, predictable and listenable to in the same sort of way that Vivaldi's is eminently playable, predictable and listenable.
But Philip, as he frequently said, was preeminently a "practician," wherefore he gently covered the girl with his coat, busied himself with the lantern and, for various reasons, sought to create a general atmosphere of commonplace reality. Diane of the Green Van
The result is an eminently readable account that captures the spirit of those heady days.
Hot Chip, is a five piece electronic dance band from London, who have laid claim to the term overseas with their eminently danceable brand of pseudo-electronic pop. EARVOLUTION
But in Timor's case, the facts of the situation made it an eminently resolvable problem, and one of my complaints about the media would be its failure to articulate the underlying facts and their resolvability.
The text is eminently readable and supported by detailed citations and a voluminous index.
Literature is, nowadays, preeminently narrative fiction of a realist kind. Times, Sunday Times
No, there was nothing sublime and dolorous about Miss Manners; her face was round, cheery, and slightly puckered, with two little black eyes sparking and shining under dark brows, a nose she unblushingly called pug, and a big mouth with eminently white and regular teeth, which she said were such a comfort, for they never ached, and never would to the end of time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
a wide variety of pre-eminently contemporary scenes
That suddenly makes the cost of repairing our fine Victorian building seem eminently reasonable.
I think GM is eminently re-organizable," said Durc Savini, managing director at Miller Buckfire & Co., a New York investment banking firm that advised on the bankruptcies at auto suppliers Dana Corp. and Dura Automotive Inc. Big Three Seek $34 Billion Aid
The presumption that experts know more about their subject than laymen is eminently reasonable. Trust the Experts: A Reasonable, Defeasible Presumption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
After all, he was an eminently eligible man, attractive and immensely wealthy.
The party was pre-eminently the party of the landed interest.
To most people, that would seem eminently reasonable. The Sun
At a glance this seems eminently reasonable - not least if it protects us from Family videos.
It was a calamitous mistake, not least because it was eminently avoidable.
As Gratiolet remarks, whenever our attention is long concentrated on any subject, we forget to breathe, and then relieve ourselves by a deep inspiration; but the sighs of a sorrowful person, owing to his slow respiration and languid circulation, are eminently characteristic. 1 As the grief of a person in this state occasionally recurs and increases into a paroxysm, spasms affect the respiratory muscles, and he feels as if something, the so-called globus hystericus, was rising in his throat. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
Your level of participation is up to you and scheduling is eminently flexible.
Indeed, the reasonably quick and informal procedure of industrial tribunals is eminently suitable for most cases.
Suspicion, the offspring of fear, is eminently characteristic of most wild animals.
Despite these shortcomings, this is an interesting and eminently readable textbook.
The only drawback to this eminently plausible case is that there is not a scrap of evidence for it.
Rule four makes it sound eminently sensible, especially as it is voluntary.
There he is surrounded by a salon of interesting people he has collected, including the eminently clubbable journalist, Sneath.
I think not; and the conclusion implied by our authors seems to me eminently probable, that in the so-called ether we have simply a state of matter more primitive than what we know as the gaseous state. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
The true cinchona barks, containing quinine, quinidine, and cinchonine, are distinguished from the false by their splintery-fibrous texture, the latter being pre-eminently corky. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
This is a much-needed and eminently readable book that is likely to remain a standard work for many years to come. Times, Sunday Times
These seem eminently sensible judgments. Times, Sunday Times
Each chapter has a select bibliography which will be very useful for scholars and students alike and which makes a hefty book eminently manageable. The Times Literary Supplement
But the most notable characteristic of the piano is that it is eminently suitable for the tone-deaf.
Dolly at least is alive and well and her first lamb, Bonnie, seems eminently healthy and normal.
Most of the presidents of this earlier era are eminently forgettable.
This is a superior Festschrift, filled with fresh ideas, and eminently well deserved.
Or has our boasted progress brought with it a suspicion that female chastity is, after all, an overprized bauble -- that what is no crime against nature should be tolerated by this eminently practical age? The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
Her breeding and background made her eminently acceptable in royal circles.
We anticipated a rusty scow; he commissioned a very handsomely appointed, eminently seaworthy vessel.
Barack Obama was elected president of the United States because a great many people, especially young people, believed he was preeminently on the side of social justice. Dan Agin: Ship of State or Ship of Fools? Barack Obama and Social Justice
It's one of the few publications in existence that is actually eminently more readable on the Net than it is on paper.
Rotterdam was eminently forgettable and we passed through it quickly.
The real ‘Key West lime juice’ is a gourmet's delight, pre-eminently suited for use in a variety of pastry pies.
The narrator calls it a "uniped," or some sort of one-footed goblin, [232] but that is hardly reasonable, for after the shooting it went on to perform the further quite human and eminently Indian-like act of running away. [ The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
The dish was also eminently suitable for service in a restaurant, good to look at and practical to assemble.
The "point and surprise" which he speaks of as characterizing the style of Plutarch belong eminently to his own. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Taste is thereby an eminently social sense, an observation that implicitly further discredits its alleged privacy and indisputability. Tastes and Pleasures
It is eminently a product of what I have ventured to call the rationalistic temper. Pragmatism
Recently Fuchs has reported his experience in cornea-grafting in sections, as a substitute for von Hippel's method, in parenchymatous keratitis and corneal staphyloma, and though not eminently successful himself, he considers the operation worthy of trial in cases that are without help, and doomed to blindness. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him. Hard Times
The bibliopoles of Conduit Street have been eminently happy in the selection of such a biographer to open their undertaking; and the popularity of this volume must be such as favourably to attract the attention of the public.
However, local wine is, I am sorry to report, eminently forgettable.
The films featuring Marlene Dietrich add the paradox of the dazzling yet androgynous female who is simultaneously moral and amoral, eminently proper yet irredeemably decadent.
Creator of the World was supereminently Bountiful, and exceedingly The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan
He is eminently capable, but light years from a certainty. Times, Sunday Times
* * * For Patience, Lady Hendricks's musicale that evening proved to be an eminently forgettable experience. A RAKE'S VOW
Such high-minded scorn for the '90s and the general affluence and calm they represented is an eminently understandable sentiment.
And this is why he is eminently sackable. Times, Sunday Times
The book does say it was written by mothers, for mothers, full of eminently practical advice.
Millions of us assumed that this burg would remain eminently liveable.
(if indeed the word can be applied to what is really a catalogue of the results of a transcendental intuition) of the essential difference between the reason and the understanding -- a distinction which Coleridge has himself elsewhere described as preeminently the _gradus ad philosophiam, _ and might well have called its _pons asinorum. English Men of Letters: Coleridge
The Emir was in the very flower of his age, and might perhaps have been termed eminently beautiful, but for the narrowness of his forehead and something of too much thinness and sharpness of feature, or at least what might have seemed such in a European estimate of beauty. The Talisman
I helpfully suggested that they try selling the carcass to the Korean restaurant up the road, and thus make the best of a bad deal, but what seemed to me to be eminently pragmatic elicited only disgusted looks from the goras.
The unworthy thought crossed my mind that her present misbehaviour rendered her eminently blackmailable where Popplewell was concerned - but it was a purely Pickwickian reflection, you understand. THE NUMBERS
The arts festival is pre-eminently a festival of theatre.
Keeley used to work as a "newspaperman," an eminently masculine synonym for "journalist" in the Hollywood lexicon. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
This is tricky on a rainy December afternoon but eminently possible at every hour of the day throughout August.
The 68-minute suite is eminently likeable, its prog tendencies harking back to melodic mid-'70s albums by the likes of Jean-Luc Ponty, while incorporating modern studio effects.
The hearsing and inearthing of a person of quality in the middle of the eighteenth century was a proceeding commonly characterized by features eminently social, if not convivial.
A goal which seemed eminently achievable was allowed to slip away late yesterday afternoon, and this morning the sides will be locked at eight points apiece when the head-to-heads commence.
So I guess the conclusion is that this is a mediocre, eminently forgettable album.
My aim is to bring what I believe is an eminently suitable body of theory, current feminist literary theory, to critique a range of hypertexts.
It seems eminently logical to me. Times, Sunday Times
In principle, continuity is eminently desirable but the principle shrivels if what is being continued doesn't have demonstrable worth.
The thing is that it's doable: eminently and obviously doable. Times, Sunday Times
So the overshoot seems hardly massive, and indeed eminently containable.
It is ‘an eminently foolish book - overdrawn, overlong, underconsidered, and filled with at least one forehead-slapping ay caramba per page.’
Their bickering and fluffing made the live TV experience eminently watchable - provided you were doing something else useful at the same time, like ironing.
God is supereminently being -- "I am who am" -- but in Him the good is anterior to being, and the ineffable name of God is above all His other names. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Whatever consideration, at any time or season, may seem to have had an efficacy upon the minds and wills of men under the like sacrament and designment to the service of truth with yourselves, to incite and provoke them to a singularly industrious and faithful discharge of their duty, is eminently pressing upon you also; and you are made a spectacle to men and angels as to the acquitment of yourselves. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
It was an eminently respectable boarding school.
Millions of us assumed that this burg would remain eminently liveable.
If you continue to find it eminently resistible in all contexts, you have no need of any such explanation.
After seeing someone close to him die as the victim of senseless, eminently preventable violent crime, he vows to protect the innocent, keeping the same fate from befalling others.
So we thought it would be eminently fair to compare the performance of the two drives.
The answer is that the clubs lay at the heart of industrial Lanarkshire and football was pre-eminently the game of steelworkers, miners and shipbuilders.
All of which are eminently curable with current methods and medicines.
He was a man eminently successful in the line of life which he chose, and deservedly so.
made of sturdy eminently paintable wood
There remains virtually no river in the U.S. where drinking its water doesn't risk catching Giardia lamblia or some other nasty flagellated protozoan parasite, but here the luminous water is eminently potable. Richard Bangs: Bosnia & Herzegovina, That Unreal Place
Surprisingly, the result is eminently readable. The Times Literary Supplement
So far, so faddy, but even eminently sensible people, such as the broadcaster Jenni Murray, have raved about it, having started it after Dukan appeared on Woman's Hour. The Saturday interview: Dukan diet creator Pierre Dukan | Emine Saner
This film is eminently quotable, as it quotes many sources itself.
The Italian man, it is true, has been often described as eminently reticent; and the northern popular conception represents him as apt to seek the attainment of his object by the concealment of it. A Siren
This is an eminently practical question, and I suspect there is a dearth of literature on the topic.
We have become, over some twenty years and more, so used to the Tories losing seats at by-elections and failing spectacularly to win eminently winnable seats at others, that the vibes emanating from Ealing Southall suggesting that The Tories 'charismatic candidate Tony Lit, a wealthy Sikh entrepreneur prominent in the area, might do well enough to come a very close second and even, whisper it not in Gath, to win the seat are beginning to waken the media up to a possible earthquake. Archive 2007-07-08
Because, in my submission, it then offends against the principle that where the duties are pre-eminently spiritual certain presumptions arise.
Nothing can be more certain, than that his services were supereminently beneficial; and, that the period was not yet arrived for their being duly acknowledged. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
The waiters are friendly without being affrontingly informal, and the prices are eminently fair — the most a meal can cost (as of this writing) is $85 a head for a weekend-night prix fixe, or about a third of what you’ll end up paying at the French Laundry or Alain Ducasse. Cooking Up a Storm
Here he spent several lonely and depressing months, eminently disgusted with the unprepossessing appearance of the Indian maidens, and greatly worried by his growing sons who stood in need of a mother's care. THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
'They seemed eminently happy, and even polite; for individuals would select large and bright specimens of fruit, and throw them archwise across to some friend who had extracted the nutriment from those scattered around him.' Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
Richard: Thanks for pointing me to her; I just read her eminently sensible column on the verb "incent" and I think I'll add her to the sidebar. Languagehat.com: SAFIRE REACHES NEW DEPTHS.
They learned in their early days with prodigious rapidity, illustrating the deep difference between the "big-brain" type, relatively poor in its endowment of instinctive capacities, but eminently "educable," and the "little-brain" type, say, of ants and bees, richly endowed with instinctive capacities, but very far from being quick or glad to learn. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
Goalkicker Nick Hogan actually missed with another three eminently makeable efforts.
The valley through which the Guadalquivir winds its course, is supereminently fertile, and from it the French armies derive the greatest part of their forage and provisions.
Having booked a couple of days ahead, four of us were rewarded with one of the booths with emerald green buttoned upholstery - a fabric that seems eminently wipeable - that divide the ground floor unrecognisable from its previous incarnation as Vama between tables facing gastronomically barren King's Road and those beneath a glazed roof at the back. Evening Standard - Home
In order to think more creatively, imaginatively and strategically, we need to cultivate a more intuitive, metaphorical attention that calls preeminently on the right hemisphere of the brain. Be Excellent at Anything
We fail to plan for the worst and then act shocked when eminently predictable crises occur.
He also designed eminently practical and sleek kettles, firedogs, fenders and fire screens.
They had become eminently respectable. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
It is slick, contrived and eminently forgettable guff. Times, Sunday Times
He represented the Primitive Christians as the vilest of men, and as if at their Meetings they did commit the most nefandous Villanies that ever were known; and that not only Innocent, but Eminently Pious The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
Bacon, however, is pre-eminently a philosopher; Osler never forgets that he is a physician first, albeit a physician with a philosophical approach to his profession.
Given the current furore, this seems eminently sensible: they are flat. Times, Sunday Times
I mean shagging eminently shaggable Joe is pretty much all they had to do out there. Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: Idol Brains are the Devil's Playground.
Before his involvement in the Piltdown excavations, Teilhard was nothing more than a young priest with aspirations in science, who had collected fossils and pre-eminently fossil sea urchins, in Egypt.
The result was two highly original and eminently durable clown characters.
And so "Collapse Into Now" is eminently listenable. Album review: R.E.M., "Collapse Into Now"
Still this course is eminently playable and so flat with lush fairways that it is usually a pleasure to walk, today proved no different, wet and soggy but cool and pleasant.
Of course, nobody ever notices this, because such an act is eminently simple for them.
It is eminently reasonable for an individual to choose the treatment that is likely to generate the most QALYs.
Wind and solar power are also ultimately free and eminently renewable, while coal kills our children and nukes could kill our grandchildren.
It seems eminently sensible to let the destinations come to you, without unpacking more than once. The Sun
Trilling wants something like the consciousness of sin injected into liberalism, and the "job of criticism" is thus the moral critic's job of raising our awareness of humankind's fallen state, something for which Trilling finds literature eminently useful. Principles of Literary Criticism
He remembered a certain dark-haired servant, one who had seemed eminently suitable for several weeks.
We live, Augustus, in an age eminently favorable to the growth of all roguery which is careful enough to keep up appearances. Armadale
The wine, as with everywhere else in the region, is cheap but eminently drinkable.
I am unwilling to be completely convinced by something which seems so eminently illogical.
The metaphysical mystery, thus recognized by common sense, that he who feeds on death that feeds on men possesses life supereminently and excellently, and meets best the secret demands of the universe, is the truth of which asceticism has been the faithful champion. The Varieties of Religious Experience
If the exordial verses of Homer be compared with the rest of the poem, they will not appear remarkable for plainness or simplicity, but rather eminently adorned and illuminated: The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
It is not an eminently ideal or sportsmanlike sort of fishing, this "jagging," but it possesses a marvellous enjoyment and fascination for the youth of ten, and older people as well; for a full-grown salmon is a powerful fellow, and his big, fluke-like tail enables him to make a terrific rush when under the influence of terror or when chasing his prey. A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904
Much of this is eminently disputable, yet the result is constructive stimulation rather than mere provocation.
I found the agreement eminently sensible, safeguarding the interests of parties on both sides, and so I readily acceded.
They claimed something that was eminently checkable, that this is what these documents showed.
They're a dangerous team in a division that looks eminently winnable.
The book is in eminently "bad style," and, with the assistance of the portrait upon the frontispiece, will to a great extent destroy those charming ideas which romance suggested of "la belle rebelle .... Current Literature
Christ never so eminently appeared for divine justice, and yet never suffered so much from divine Justice, as when he offered up himself a sacrifice for our sins.
He was eminently capable of writing a feature on skiing this way. Times, Sunday Times
Infinitely understated but eminently sophisticated, this album is a treat made for incurable romantics to love unreservedly.
It is above all mere human power and created authority in the world whatsoever, and that supereminently. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
I suspect there is a direct correlation between the 'dumbing down' of America through a crumbling education system and the pooh-poohing of knowledge as elitist, and the increase in kooky candidates and those already in office who spew brazenly incoherent rhetoric, scientifically disturbing stances, and culturally backward ideals -- a breed of candidates and politicians that is eminently unqualified for offices they hold or aspire to. Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates
Either way, it is evidence that voting patterns have become mercurial, fissiparous and eminently unpredictable. Times, Sunday Times
I've always found her eminently diggable as a person, but not so much as a candidate, until last night. Dem Debate Wrap-Up
Me, I tend to agree with John Waters, always an eminently wise and sensible fund of good ideas and clear thinking.
It remains eminently possible, if not likely, that Saltz's print publications and online presence will cross-fertilize and establish a healthy and sustainable equilibrium. Sharon L. Butler: Jerry Saltz's Burden
It was an eminently unvulgar, and ought to have been a very sweet, home-coming. Tongues of Conscience
There was a little comfort in that thought as she fell asleep: it gave her a sense of comradeliness that anyone so eminently sane as Wordsworth should have had "blank misgivings. Captivity
My circumstances, while eminently enjoyable, are not helping my state of mind.
If you can put yourself in a mental place to enjoy this completely flawed but eminently watchable sci-fi homage, you will be rewarded with clever twists, enjoyably hammy acting, and great footage of a stunning woman in her prime.
The trialogue Younan envisions has eminently practical results: ‘peace education, based on tolerance, equality, and forgiveness.’
The clothes which are young and vibrant, and eminently wearable, come in two shades of pink with some cream combinations.
Each chapter has a select bibliography which will be very useful for scholars and students alike and which makes a hefty book eminently manageable. The Times Literary Supplement
He'd played in some eminently forgettable horror movies and I felt I could not seriously consider him.
Such preeminently was the title deserved by Mrs. Van Alstine, the "Patriot mother of the Mohawk Valley. Woman on the American Frontier
So I guess the conclusion is that this is a mediocre, eminently forgettable album.
This seems to me an eminently practical and workable scheme of legislation.
two subjects on which he was eminently qualified to make an original contribution
The arias selected are eminently familiar and hummable - from Aida, Nabucco, Otello, Rigoletto and Il Trovatore among others - and everyone enjoys themselves hugely.
Such a simple scheme is effective and eminently copyable. Times, Sunday Times
And not only eminently convertible Victorian primaries are in trouble.
This is eminently reasonable as effective action by big waves must extend above the level of the highest tide.
Only then may we affirm the infinite perfections as contained "supereminently" and mutually “identically” in God. Archive 2005-06-01
It is not of the same importance to the public that advocates should be supereminently skilful: their occupation is not to seek out what is agreeable to justice, but what agrees with the interest of the party to which chance has engaged them.
Previously, an attack on a French ship or an attack on an Indonesian resort unfamiliar to Americans would be ignored in America as only part of the usual white noise playing in the eminently ignorable outside world.
Holy Scripture is not preeminently "a" book, but a witness to the word of God, which was sent forth to us in Christ. Fr. von Balthasar: People "need to recognize the incomparable, the unique character of the Gospel"
If so, the name was now forgotten, and the Crusaders had christened it Saint George's Mount, because from that commanding height the banner of England was supereminently displayed, as if an emblem of sovereignty over the many distinguished, noble, and even royal ensigns, which floated in lower situations. The Talisman
Omaq-kat-tsa, carrying with it the meaning of Big Brave, is a name eminently fitting to Mountain Chief. The Vanishing Race
Banning them would probably be impractical; pricing them off the road is eminently sensible.
Eminently desirable reforms mooted in the wake of the Kargil War remain elusive; structural problems persist; and, over the last decade, the 'izzat' (honour) of the military as an institution has been sullied. The Hindu - Home
Mazurkas, which are supereminently Chopin-ical; that do NOT we. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
Pretty, dainty, inconsequential little Rosalie was preëminently fashioned for romance; it clung to her golden hair and looked from her eyes, She might be extremely hazy as to the difference between participles and supines, she might hesitate in her definition of a parallelopiped, but when the subject under discussion was one of sentiment, she spoke with conviction. Just Patty

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