ascendance

How To Use ascendance In A Sentence

• The pivot of this change was the Enlightenment, a time when the rational took ascendance over the mystical.
• Bosonic Ashurs had returned from their mastery of the dark light-years, seeking ascendance over all... and were subdued by the mesonic Kanjurs, who in turn were defeated by the Devas--patterned from integral quarks. Roberson's Book Report
• But it is leaders like Mr. Hunter and Mr. Warren who are in ascendance. December 2006
• Yet the cast manages to coexist capably with the conceit, confidently propelling us through the drama of lords, priests and queens, in ascendance and decline, in Henry's intrigue-ridden court. Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII'
• Edgar, to whom this was communicated, saw with terror the ascendance thus acquired over her judgment as well as her affections, and became more watchful and more uneasy in observing the progress of this friendship, than all the flattering devoirs of the gay Baronet, or the more serious assiduities of the Major. Camilla
• Her work for iD, Italian Vogue, and W Magazine reveals a talent in ascendance within the sphere of fashion photography. Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives
• AN: It seems like literary nonfiction has really been in ascendance over the past decade or so, and yet I rarely read essays that have the sophistication, engagement with other art and literature, and turn of thought that distinguishes really great essays like your “Against Joie d’Vivre.” “I don’t understand the vogue for stripped-down sentences.” « PubliCola
• It features an ambitious politician and her neglected son, and it achieves levels of cynicism I would have found implausible had I not witnessed the ascendance of Sarah Palin. 07 « December « 2009 « Precocious Curmudgeon
• As long as future computer animated films maintain the same level of quality as that of the pioneers in the field, their ascendance can only be seen as a positive thing.
• The plot itself is pretty good - the vampires are still unused to their sudden ascendance and have ambiguous feelings about it, embodied in the two brothers, one a grunt in the human-hunting army who seems content with the way humans are treated, the other a haematologist who tolerates the situation as a temporary measure but has many regrets. Archive 2010-02-01