The artist's gifts are at their acme. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
To be born obscure and to die famous has been described as the acme of human felicity. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
For its purpose the position chosen was ideal, but it could hardly be called the acme of comfort. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
In fact, it is, in some ways, the very REVERSE of brain – power: it might be called the acme of stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Who's the little bird? "said Skippy, who had not heard himself described as the acme of suspicion for nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World] Reference
"Genus irritabile vatum," we shall never quarrel on the subject -- poetic fame is by no means the "acme" of my wishes. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1] Reference
I was too near the acme of curiosity to longer delay. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Southern hemisphere was to me the very acme of bliss. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
This is the acme of the game and the crowning glory of the player. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
It is the acme of discourtesy to keep any one waiting in this manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
This generous disposition of yours I now regard as acme of human dower. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
And by an acme of villainy flatterers do not always spare even themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
To my palate the dill pickle appeals as almost the acme of disagreeableness. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
But to let mere lads speak extempore is to give rise to the acme of foolish talk. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Without question Justin's business methods were the acme of up-to-date effectiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
From that hour they were doomed in her estimation as the acme of wickedness and vice. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Sir Donald follows the sense of compassion, which often is the acme of intrinsic craft. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Eckstine's popularity hit its acme between WWII and the beginning of the rock 'n' roll era. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Rewind, Volume I] Reference
The acme of the early prosperity of Austria was reached under Duke Leopold II., surnamed the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
But the point, the acme of my distresses, consisted in the awful uncertainty of our final fate. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
She is the acme of perfection, physical, mental, and spiritual; nobody can be compared with her. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
We thought we had seen the acme of perfection in rice cultivation and irrigation in China and Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java] Reference
But I have picked up anecdotal evidence that there is activity at the very acme of the luxury pyramid. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Luxury] Reference
Only during consciousness does it exist, and only in the most highly-organized men does it reach its acme. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Martian existence is controlled by the acme of system, which is in accordance with the law of Divine Harmony. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation] Reference
And it is only by exercise, and by exercise alone, that they can be maintained at the acme of physical condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Pennsylvania Limited, whose trains are the acme of modern railroading and go to Washington, the nation's capital city. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"] Reference
Enter the Maybach 57, a revived luxury nameplate that, way back in the 1930s, was once the acme of automotive refinement. From Wordnik.com. [Maybach 57] Reference
His Procrustes, from the collector's point of view, is entirely logical, and might be considered as the acme of bookmaking. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Lerton always dressed in the acme of fashion, running considerably to fads in clothes, appearing almost effeminate at times. From Wordnik.com. [The Brand of Silence A Detective Story] Reference
It is the very acme of studied simplicity, of elegance made out of nothing, of the most immaculate and incredible cleanliness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The Renton team had now risen to the acme of their fame, and no player helped them more to attain that position than Mr.J. M'Call. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches] Reference
But the acme of his exhibition was reached when he mounted the table and simulated the rocking motion of the wagon crossing the stream. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference
Mankind has long realized that the acme of human enjoyment is reached in the perfect companionship of harmonious association of the sexes. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
The apprehension that the sky will fall -- that acme of absurdity among the fears of our Gallic forefathers -- has entered our own hearts. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
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