What is "eminences"

Usage examples of "eminences".

Nor was there at Alexandria a single Roman or citizen who remained engaged in the attack or defense, but mounted the tops of the houses and all the eminences that would give a view of the fight, addressing the gods by vows and prayers for victory.

For he made himself master of several forts, built on eminences, whose advantageous situation tempted the inhabitants to make descents and inroads upon the country.

I thought that, if this ever happened, if at an elegant state dinner amid all the stray eminences someone's life was threatened and I had to shoot someone, I'd stand over the body and say, "Excuse me.

What I envisioned -- and I had to envision it because Secret Service agents usually weren't needed during dinner -- was the president and the prime minister, and maybe the secretary of state, and several other tedious eminences of the highest order, dressed in black tie as they discussed some urgent world matters while holding unimaginably expensive and lovely glasses filled with an enormously costly wine as they ate animal by-products that had come from cans.

We smiled and peeked through the windows of the swinging doors at all of the presidents and premiers and emirs and eminences in the dining room, and we finally saw someone coming toward us.

The high peninsula of Aven stretched away into the west, green and rolling, with a single peak near its tip and other eminences half-hidden in haze.

It does seem, however, that when the opinions of masses of merely average men are everywhere become or becoming the dominant power, the counterpoise and corrective to that tendency would be, the more and more pronounced individuality of those who stand on the higher eminences of thought.

As the various social eminences which enabled persons entrenched on them to disregard the opinion of the multitude, gradually became levelled.

If all of the human race thought that way we'd never have bothered trying to build flying machines because the eminences who knew better had proved them impossible.

We have found vast volcanic eminences that dwarf the highest mountain on Earth.

When we stumble upon vast volcanic eminences on a geologically quiet Mars.