Word: limelight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presidential ambitions; his father has publicly scoffed at the notion of a hereditary succession. More pertinent, Gamal lacks the backing of the military, which may prefer Field Marshall Mohamed Tantawi, Mubarak's loyal Defense Minister. Mubarak himself has lately thrust intelligence chief General Omar Suleiman into the limelight by giving him the task of negotiating an Israei-Palestinian cease-fire. Mubarak completed his speech after a 45-min. break. A squash player, the President is in relatively good health. But many Egyptians doubtless hope that, to prevent future chaos, he will take the time to pick a successor...
Shipley also stated a desire to stay out of the limelight...
Getting started brings Tom Cavanagh into the limelight of Bright Hockey Center and Harvard expectations...
Kozeny, now 39 years old, is no stranger to the international limelight...
...published two further volumes of diaries (revealing as little as possible), and according to Read would be offended if congregations didn't applaud after his readings at others' memorial services. It was what Read, quoting John le Carré, calls Guinness's propensity to "back into the limelight." Far from the pottering, benevolent figure Guinness presents in his own books, Read reveals a frequently cruel, ambitious and selfish man striving to be better than his nature allowed. The book's very first line, which has Guinness admitting that "my mother was a whore ? when she gave birth she called...