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• Eating has always been preeminently a human, communal and convivial pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
• Seldom has a more acidulous portrait of the city been drawn by one of its preeminent members.
• Each spring, corporate America's preeminent chieftains offer sage counsel to eager university graduates across the nation.
• 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
• 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
• Natural gas will become the preeminent fuel of the 21 st century, according to widespread expectation.
• Stressing what the naked eye could see helped him lay the foundations of pathological anatomy, following the initiatives of the preeminent anatomist, Giovanni Morgagni.
• Under them, the entire company -- most notably McLeavy as a tender-tough Stella and Tim Richards as unpolished but compassionate gentleman-caller Mitch -- vivify a revival that works to remind anyone who's forgotten that here's one of the handful of preeminent 20-century American plays. David Finkle: Blanchett as Blanche in Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire
• 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
• His language might at times ascend to rhapsody, yet his was an uncommonly practical approach - radical in the sense of attacking the preeminent social problem at its root, but basically conservative as to method.