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Example sentences for "emphasise"

Lexicographically close words:
emperors; emperour; empery; empescher; emphasis; emphasised; emphasises; emphasising; emphasize; emphasized
  1. To emphasise this aspect of the revolutionary struggle may seem unusual and perhaps deserves a word of apology.

  2. And, to emphasise this point, he walked towards the school buildings again.

  3. Mr Higgs turned in his chair, and waved a stick of grease paint impressively to emphasise his point.

  4. Foreigners, and Americans especially, frequently emphasise the “ignorance” of the Russian workers.

  5. Instruction and Education: One must emphasise the difference between instruction and education.

  6. They love to emphasise their superior wealth by dubbing their lowlier brothers and sisters mestizos and mestizas.

  7. They themselves admonish me, however, in fifty interesting ways, and they especially emphasise that truth of the vanity of the a priori test of what an idee-mere may have to give.

  8. He was unlike many a man of marked good looks in that the effect of evening dress was not, with a perversity often observed in such cases, to over-emphasise his fineness.

  9. It is scarcely necessary to emphasise that a highly important, and, indeed, essential aspect of this greater individuation is a higher survival value.

  10. Yet we feel that it was worth while; even those physicians who most emphasise the evil results of the erect position do not advise that we should go on all-fours.

  11. It is obvious that you find yourself unable to emphasise the olden features of our faith--the questions of kosher meat, etc.

  12. Raphael rose and paced the room nervously, flinging out his arms in uncouth fashion to emphasise his speech.

  13. In vain did the prelates emphasise their protests of loyalty.

  14. It is compared with the French court, which is quite the most splendid thing in France; but the French emperor is magnified to emphasise the equality of everyone else.

  15. But the new name was evidently not much employed, except, perhaps, on occasions when the King wished to emphasise his Christian character.

  16. The English on their part pledged absolute loyalty; and, to emphasise the covenant, the assembly outlawed all Danish claimants.

  17. I may emphasise here the importance of keeping one's heavy baggage in sight, herding on the ekkas in front, if possible, and keeping a wary eye and a firm hand on the drivers at all halts.

  18. That was not her real name, but by that she was distinguished at Gravier's to emphasise the picture's beauty notwithstanding the somewhat revolting peculiarity of the sitter's appearance.

  19. I may be permitted perhaps to emphasise this significant accordance of history and tradition when working together.

  20. He struck his knees sharply, and simultaneously, with both his palms to emphasise his remarks, a frequent habit of the dead man's.

  21. It is not meant that that exalted side was absent from Mark's thoughts, but that his design led him rather to emphasise the other.

  22. The strange fact of Christian silence is one that I emphasise to begin with.

  23. In that respect, too, the contrast of Elijah's translation may serve to emphasise the truth.

  24. Parker made the reasonable suggestion that the architect desired to emphasise by this variation of style the religious and secular uses of the several structures.

  25. To those who already know it, these hints will seem a poor and inadequate attempt to express its manifold charm, but the pictures may serve to emphasise their vivid recollections.

  26. His accounts of the festivals show a hearty appreciation of the entire ritual; and his references to the music do not give us the technical circumstances of its production, but rather emphasise its general effect.

  27. The latter perhaps felt more drawn to the real David than to the ideal, and the new priestly dynasty would not be anxious to emphasise the Messianic hopes of the house of David.

  28. He has no formal intention of describing the character and office of the Messiah; he merely wishes to write a history so as to emphasise the facts which most forcibly illustrated the sacred mission of Israel.

  29. A wholesome spiritual instinct leads the chronicler to emphasise the great preparations of Abijah and Asa.

  30. In so doing, he has gone somewhat further than his predecessors: he is not careful to emphasise any Divine permission given to Satan or Divine control exercised over him.

  31. Our text affords a striking illustration of the tendency to emphasise the recognition of Satan as the instrument of evil and to ignore the question of the relation of God to the origin of evil.

  32. We have laid so much stress on the drawbacks attaching to a little archaeology because they will emphasise what we have to say about the use of pure anachronism.

  33. Everything serves to emphasise the lesson we touched on in connection with David's sacrifices at the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite: ritual is made for man, and not man for ritual.

  34. Although an unpretentious little vessel, it certainly served to emphasise the importance of the Torres idea.

  35. Although it has achieved certain successes in other directions these have been subsidiary to the primary intention, and have merely served to emphasise its military value.

  36. His ambition was to build a vessel as large as the current Zeppelin, merely to emphasise the value of his improvement upon a sufficiently large scale, and to enable comparative data concerning the two designs to be obtained.

  37. Here and there startling successes have been recorded especially upon the British side, but these triumphs are outnumbered by the failures in this direction, and merely serve to emphasise the views of the theorists.

  38. In this he is quite right; and the importance of the distinction which he wishes to emphasise will, I hope, become clear as we proceed.

  39. The tendency has generally been to emphasise one at the expense of the other; but they must work together, for each is helpless without the other.

  40. The Western consciousness has always tended to emphasise the distinctness of individuality, and has been suspicious of anything that looks like juggling with the rights of persons, human or Divine.

  41. To emphasise these distinctions was no part of the colonel's plan.

  42. Later letters of the same spring emphasise the effect which the incident had upon him.

  43. Two little stories, however, emphasise the statements made above as to the effect on the children’s imagination of Captain Thom’s yarns.

  44. And, had I been speaking twenty years ago, I should have had to emphasise the ethical character of the metaphysics of the day.

  45. These be far-fetched examples, but they serve to emphasise a general misconception of the conditions under which the flying services carry out their work at the big war.

  46. She was dressed, but it struck Sir Evelyn when he saw her that her clothes tended rather to emphasise than disguise the defects of figure she complained of.

  47. As if to emphasise the reality of the risk, there came rumbling and clattering down the chimney a shower of pebbles and loose earth.

  48. Let us pursue and emphasise this thought a little further.


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