It's not the towering sail, but the unseen wind that moves the ship. From LearnThat.org. [Proverb]
Verb (used without object) : The skyscraper towers above the city. ,She towers above the other students. From Dictionary.com.
"Do you see that mountain towering directly south of us?" he asked. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Nils] Reference
Paternoster's voice is often described as towering, and it certainly can be, but in less full-throttle moments she sounds oddly elfin. From Wordnik.com. [ Culture Guide] Reference
In football, people like Bordon are known as towering defenders. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
'70 Superior by the head': so in Homer ( 'Iliad', III, 225-227) Ajax is described as towering over the other Greeks by head and shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems] Reference
He must look up to George as being some kind of towering intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Gonzales: ‘There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution’] Reference
Gordon Brown has already changed from 'towering' figure into a rather vulnerable 'cowering' figure. From Wordnik.com. [Asides] Reference
You know, precisely because Benedict XVI does not have that kind of towering charisma you associate with John Paul II. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2008] Reference
Now thats what I call a towering intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Immoral Compass] Reference
Will a towering figure emerge to shape its trajectory?. From Wordnik.com. [Pondering The Future's Future] Reference
What was it that made them towering historical figures?. From Wordnik.com. [A GRAND ALLIANCE] Reference
A cruel, truncated joke of a Monday after this towering Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [Sports: The Grandest Slam] Reference
What he saw was a figure in white marble, towering 14 feet above him. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Art Or Foul?] Reference
His distinctive mane of hair dominates the stage and towering posters. From Wordnik.com. [The Koizumi Bubble] Reference
Japan is blessed with towering peaks that see piles of powder every winter. From Wordnik.com. [Getting a Big Lift] Reference
Above, in the branches of a towering tree rested a full-size Spanish galleon. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Mythmaker] Reference
The answers play out in places like the towering Times Square shopping complex. From Wordnik.com. [Heirs To A Highly Uncertain Future] Reference
Eisner took over a moribund company in the shadow of its once-towering reputation. From Wordnik.com. [The Upside of Ego] Reference
Oh, yes: a bunch of towering multimillionaires stomped on the Angolan basketball team. From Wordnik.com. [Life In The Virtual Year] Reference
They come in all guises, from trifling microbes to towering trees, from the mosquito to the mongoose. From Wordnik.com. [Attack Of the Aliens] Reference
To be Nelson Mandela, it seems, is to apply a towering moral authority to an apparently hopeless cause. From Wordnik.com. [On The Go In His Golden Years] Reference
And, like all else of towering, elemental importance in our lives, it has been referred to a committee. From Wordnik.com. [Right And Wrong In Washington] Reference
Maybe the profusion of blond heads towering above the Japanese throngs on the platform should have alerted me. From Wordnik.com. [A MONUMENT TO REBIRTH] Reference
Teddy Ballgame, with his towering presence and his perfect swing, was about the only reason to head out to Fenway. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: A Final Farewell] Reference
Local communities and environmentalists often don't want banks of giant wind turbines towering over the landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Online Forum: Editors on the Future of Energy] Reference
Despite the perfunctory surroundings and the towering sense of world gloom, the atmosphere was exciting and upbeat. From Wordnik.com. [Time Travels Nick's Picks] Reference
Joe Stiglitz and Larry Summers, two towering intellects with egos to match, are not each other's favorite economist. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Misunderstood Man in America] Reference
It's a hilarious variation on the empowerment theme-and, as always, it finds PJ Harvey towering over the competition. From Wordnik.com. [Move Over, Tarzan--Pj Harvey Is Back] Reference
They frisked the two reporters, who then proceeded through one of four towering gates that led to a marble courtyard. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Force] Reference
Harvard economist Rogoff has called him intolerably arrogant — though he added that Stiglitz is a "towering genius.". From Wordnik.com. [The Most Misunderstood Man in America] Reference
Today there is a towering hilltop monument to Che, who was killed by a CIA-led Bolivian counterinsurgency force in 1967. From Wordnik.com. [Requiem For A Revolution] Reference
Perhaps she imagines the foreigners to be big, beautifully dressed people who might embarrass merely by towering over me. From Wordnik.com. [DON'T ASK ME... I'M JAPANESE!] Reference
In their tete-a-tete in Vancouver, for instance, Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton did their talking amid towering evergreens. From Wordnik.com. [Wheelchair Diplomacy] Reference
The towering Lakers center is one of 24 NBA stars who have been rendered in miniature by LEGO, the Denmark-based toy company. From Wordnik.com. [Toys: The Smallest Big Guys] Reference
But I was certain I would live here as soon as our car eased down the long driveway, flanked on one side by a row of towering sugar maples. From Wordnik.com. [When Half As Big Is More Than Enough] Reference
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