His great prominence in his own day has been succeeded by an obscurity so complete that only a few items of his work are now remembered.
Gradually the meaning in poetry takes on more prominence as the work proceeds.
The female pelvis is shallower and wider, less massive, the margins of the bones are more widely separated, thus giving greater prominence to the hips; the sacrum is shorter and less curved, and the pubic arch is wider and more rounded.
In every district the names of all ten candidates appeared upon the posters, but special prominence was given to the name of some one candidate--the candidate associated with the district.
While these and other matters are bringing into greater prominence the need of minority representation, a new problem--one with which the Continent has long been familiar--has arisen in connexion with English parliamentary elections.
While nothing but the names of the other Epicurean hetaeras have survived, Leontium, by her varied accomplishments, has won an abiding prominence in the intellectual world.
The larger number were stranger-women, chiefly from Ionia, who came to Athens, attracted by its prominence in politics and the arts, that they might play their role on a larger and more brilliant stage.
Aristophanes, a marked prominence given to the female sex.
She was surpassed in the number and prominence of her lovers only by her contemporary, Phryne of Athens.
Sometimes our way lay close to the black precipices on our right, under which the snow was deep; and we dragged ourselves along, grasping every prominence of the rock with our numbed fingers.
He was a dirty, ill-conditioned looking fellow, with no bumps behind his ears, or prominence of eyebrow region, but a remarkable cerebellum.
True, it was not until the period of which this romance deals with Fontainebleau, its chateau, its foret, and its fetes, actually came to that prominence which to this day has never left them.
The prominence given at this period to the statues of Mithras, the existence of temples to Isis and Serapis, attest the power that these divinities exerted over the imagination of the Italian people.
Is it conceivable that such a man should have retained his impressions of biographical incidents and personal traits, or that retaining them he should have allowed them their due prominence in his record?
But as generation after generation died, without the sight, and the tokens of its approach seemed no clearer, the belief itself subsided from its early prominence into the background.
Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury is usually credited with originating the principle of penance and the institution of indulgences,[377:1] but the system did not gain prominence until the time of the Crusades.
Her wealth brought him into prominence and gave him a commanding social and industrial position.
The great prominence which it is now the fashion to ascribe to the study of diplomatic documents, is very apt to destroy the true value and perspective of history.
When figures of less prominence are chosen, both the history and the biography are apt to suffer.
Thus there is the correctional school, which Roeder brought into special prominence not many years ago.
All appropriate modes of giving prominence and adding ornament to a roof have been very fully developed in French Gothic architecture, and the roofs of semicircular and circular apses, staircase towers, &c.
In this century, secular and domestic buildings attained more prominence than at any previous periods.
Prominence is given in this style to the joiner's work; the windows, which are usually sash windows, are heavily moulded and divided into small squares by wooded sash bars.
The only contact Alvin York had had to the role of a man of prominence was to stand in line, at attention, as persons of importance passed before him.
Men of prominence volunteered to aid him in his efforts for the children of the mountains, and the result was the incorporation of the York Foundation, a non-profit-sharing organization, that is to build schoolhouses and operate schools.
In addition to these moral and intellectual qualifications, she possessed an executive ability brought into constantprominence by her work as secretary of the society.
Billy Bowlegs was the last Seminole chief of prominence to leave Florida [Coe's Red Patriots, 198].
If the observer is struck with the remarkable prominence of any one feature, it is probable that the remaining parts are deficient.
Homoeopathy has given prominence to the therapeutical side of medicine, and has done much to stimulate the study of the physiological action of drugs.
Here, again, is a theory which the pressure of social conditions, much more than abstract reasoning, is bringing more and more into prominence with our own generation.
But the pressure of political independence has been latterly bringing into prominence the idea of Race.
The third feature is the prominence and width of the bony eyebrow ridges above the orbits, which are almost as great as in the chimpanzee and greatly exceed those of the Neanderthal race and of the modern Australian.
Behind, above the occipital, one notices a large plane contrasting strongly with the marked prominence of the occipital itself.
The top view of the skull is unusual on account of the extremeprominence of the eminences of the parietals, which give the skull a pentagonal effect when seen from above.
This comparison also brings out the striking contrast between the high chinprominence of Homo sapiens and the deeply receding chin of the Neanderthals.
This is bringing the duck more into prominence as an article of food; as James Rankin says in "Duck Culture," "People do not care to eat fish and flesh combined.
Nevertheless, the greenhouse-grown vegetables have come into prominence lately because they can be raised in houses that are not good enough for flowers.
In like manner the sore places which previously existed, or which were brought into sensitive prominence by the manipulation, by degrees cease to be felt, and a general sensation of comfort and ease follows the later treatments.
The curvature of the spine said to exist was a deceptive appearance, produced by her excessive leanness, and the consequent unnatural prominence of the spinous processes of the vertebræ.
The prominenceof Aeneas expands the hint in Iliad, xx.
It leaped into such immediateprominence that it had to be closed at once.
Men of national prominence will address this meeting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prominence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
