"The ___ of Being Earnest": Wilde

Usage examples of importance.

He wished now as never in his life, Adams began, that he had the gifts of the ancient orators of Greece and Rome, for he was certain none of them ever had before him a question of greater importance.

But the hard truth was that after five months in the Dutch Republic, Adams had yet to meet a single government official of any importance.

In the long, eventful lives of Adams and Jefferson, it was an excursion of no importance to history.

AT THE START of every new venture of importance in his life, John Adams was invariably assailed by grave doubts.

In composing the picture, Trumbull had placed Adams at the exact center foreground, as if to leave no doubt about his importance.

A few years earlier, hearing that Trumbull was to undertake such a commission, Adams had lectured him on the importance of accuracy.

He moves nimbly from a grave topic to a list of the methods the little Gargantua invented for wiping his ass, and yet, aesthetically, all these elements, frivolous or grave, have equal importance in his work, give me equal pleasure.

Yet the Alids never succeeded in accomplishing anything against the dynasties of the Omayyads, the Abbasids, and the Ottomans, except in a few cases of transitory importance only.

He had heard of an alieni st in London who took pictures of the patients in his asylum because he was an amateur of physiognomy, who wished to demonstrate the importance of race, inter-breeding and cranial phenomena in the process of morbid degeneration.

The clothes were better, the food more exotic, the people more serious and aware of their own importance, but all in all the same dynamics applied: polite chitchat, polite laughter, the constant mingling.

The clothes were better, the food more exotic, the people more serious and aware of their own importance, but all in all the same dynamics applied, polite chitchat, polite laughter, the constant mingling.

The servant in his enthusiasm and the importance of his mission told the Amalekite that he came from a prince of Egypt.

I witnessed on the Amur, and during which scores of thousands of these intelligent animals came together from an immense territory, flying before the coming deep snow, in order to cross the Amur where it is narrowest--in all these scenes of animal life which passed before my eyes, I saw Mutual Aid and Mutual Support carried on to an extent which made me suspect in it a feature of the greatest importance for the maintenance of life, the preservation of each species, and its further evolution.

It has all been eaten by rodents and birds that have gone up and under the cavern roof, but the cobs and the rinds from squash remain, giving us clear evidence that the Anasazi understood the great importance of storing large amounts of food during the good years for use during the bad.

Brandy, medicinal alcohol, plasters, antiseptic cream, antifungal ointment, bandages: all of these seemed of the highest importance.