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    limelight


    1. He wanted no thanks for these services, professing only that old Ted should enjoy his moment in the limelight, safe in the knowledge that, like himself and his plums, old Ted would have a new flower named after him


    2. the limelight, safe in the knowledge that, like himself and his


    3. Kaitlyn Spelman stayed out of the limelight to the best of her ability, allowing instead the talents and gifts of the Company to feature foremost


    4. Not everybody would be happy under the limelight of fame


    5. hopefully change in time as more and more Alpha Asian Males gain the limelight and start


    6. what we uncover here will propel us all into the limelight, life will never be the same again


    7. doctor was kept near the players, though out of the limelight


    8. “Just couldn’t stay out of the limelight could he?”


    9. that hog the limelight during ‘open discussion’ this could prove to be destructive as


    10. brothers or sisters to steal the limelight and I guess I was a little spoiled but not

    11. Al Gore was once again nominated for Vice-President and could never seem to get the respect and support he needed to step into the limelight of the head position


    12. into her time in the limelight


    13. Nancy in fact preferred to stay as much out of the limelight as possible, partly because she wanted her little Eli to be disturbed as little as possible, but mostly because she didn’t crave attention the way most politicians or celebrities did


    14. enjoyed having the limelight focused on him


    15. Some whispered that she was deliberately stealing the limelight from Ariel, and yes,


    16. For the shy, unassuming Wittmann, the sudden thrust into the limelight was sometimes all too much, he continually stressed that he was only doing his job


    17. Gomz: Koel, it’s a really nice party that you organized, but this Tarana is stealing all your limelight


    18. overused catch phrases such as “do not panic” like they were in a burning theater; adding to the sense of smoke and mirrors behind the political limelight


    19. “Jasminica, just before this interview, I recounted with our viewers how you have been thrust into the limelight, to the point now, where you have been asked to be Mr


    20. He said he was more comfortable there and Samania and Rogerdonia felt it was a more secure spot and less in the limelight

    21. I was sure that he enjoyed the limelight so much that he would not be able to stay out of the loop no matter how determined he was to not give us what we wanted


    22. Perhaps they stumbled into the limelight; or maybe they did it through driving ambition, determination, and force of will


    23. Hopefully, the gods will be with me and nothing else will happen that will bring me into the limelight


    24. It is interesting to note that gold, silver, gems and emeralds are still in demand because their forms takes a longer time to change and alter and therefore they retain their initial status more than other kinds of elements since they do not corrode so easily and so their images are still in the limelight


    25. He relished the national limelight for a while but eventually was more comfortable in his home environment in Ralegan Siddhi


    26. The two women had managed to bring the discussion back to the nitty-gritty of the evidence and Anderson could see that they were enjoying their limelight


    27. “Why should the frosting have all the limelight?” she asked herself, and


    28. You are used to being in the limelight, because you‘re the main worship leader during youth and Sunday services, then suddenly, everything vanishes before your eyes like a deflated balloon, because you were faced with all those gossip and wrong interpretations about you being friends, and I‘d say, close friends with a guy, who happens to be in the same congregation you are in and a youth leader, just like you


    29. "So what difference does it make now that your perspective of things has changed and that you‘re in God‘s limelight? Would you care about what people will think or say about you now that you‘re not the same person that they knew before, but that you are the new and better version of Grace Stevens?" I asked her with a soft smile


    30. They were careful to compensate Stripehead for the loss of limelight

    31. “Jesse’s mom hates it when he’s in the limelight


    32. As for Dorgan, he was never much in the limelight anyhow and was less so now than ever


    33. All the birds were there on the deck, Mack Starling leading the questions prompting Mitch’s story, whose breast was visibly puffed out, basking in the limelight as he recounted their stunt with the truck


    34. When the article appeared in the paper on the morning of Wednesday August 26 outspoken Legislative Councillor Martin Lee had again stolen the limelight


    35. What I was going to do was light the fire again, controversially, and put it and the police back in the limelight


    36. that some day these children may bask in the limelight?


    37. ized charities in the limelight showing them as nothing but


    38. left wing who loves the limelight


    39. monopolized the limelight with her antics interrupting and stultifying all nascent conversations


    40. And there was nothing more that Layne Abeley to do then stay in the limelight, no matter what treachery and betrayal it took to get there, and stay there

    41. We hate the limelight


    42. You avoid limelight, I know because you never answer


    43. ” This is not to say that I want to be in the limelight


    44. He changes a channel of sorts with a remote of sorts and one of the more interesting cities on one of his more interesting worlds takes the limelight


    45. Joe, who had been mostly out of the political limelight since his return from London and his resignation as ambassador a year earlier, was focusing his energy on his businesses and investments and traveling frequently to New York and Washington, D


    46. Righto, Isaacs, shove em out of the bleeding limelight


    47. Maria noticed his air of breezy confidence; he was clearly comfortable allowing Lily the limelight


    48. The Bird gloried in the limelight, and for that night, he let Louie and the others be


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    Synonyms for "limelight"

    calcium light limelight glare public eye spotlight

    "limelight" definitions

    a focus of public attention


    a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting