How To Use Preeminently In A Sentence
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Eating has always been preeminently a human, communal and convivial pleasure.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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
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Literature is, nowadays, preeminently narrative fiction of a realist kind.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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(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
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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
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Such preeminently was the title deserved by Mrs. Van Alstine, the "Patriot mother of the Mohawk Valley.
Woman on the American Frontier
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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"
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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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To him, the spirit lodged within Billy, and looking out from his welkin eyes as from windows, that ineffability it was which made the dimple in his dyed cheek, suppled his joints, and dancing in his yellow curls made him preeminently the Handsome Sailor.
Billy Budd
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And that bitchiness is a preeminently male characteristic.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has been referred to as preeminently the biblical theologian of his age.
The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
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Perhaps ironically, the most important advice to the tea-party movement and GOP candidates on how to handle this situation comes from Franklin Roosevelt: "This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly . . . let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Achilles' Heel and the Diverse, Amorphous Tea Party