eminent

• He exhibited, also, more sobriety of manner than I had before noticed in him, with an improved and impressive maturity in his reflections, expressed in his happiest language; and which, could it have been accurately recorded, would have adorned the most splendid of his pages;—so rare and pre-eminent was the powerful and spontaneous utterance with which this gifted son of genius was endowed. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• Daylite has already established itself as a pre-eminent organization and business-management tool on the Mac. —  iPod Product Center
• But he was a more eminent, and debated, figure than ever before, whether for artists, the museum sphere, or writers about art. —  The New York Review of Books
• This live recording from Boris Bloch -- eminent pupil of Dimitri Bashkirov and Tatiana Nikoleyeva -- captures that glorious spontaneity that exits when Dvorak has struck gold in terms of melody and orchestral color, certainly -- like the two Brahms concertos -- a symphony with piano obbligato. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
• So numerous and so eminent were they that in Erfurt musicians were known as "Bachs", even when there were no longer any members of the family in the town. —  Torrentreactor.Net

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