Accentuated Sentence Examples

Alex wore a light blue sweater that accentuated his dark complexion and Jonathan was dressed likewise.

He looked elegant in a light gray suit that accentuated his dark tan.

Personal pique accentuated this feeling in regard to Italy.

The policy of protection was further accentuated by raising the impost on corn from 5 to 7 francs per hectolitre (23/4 bushels).

The barbarous reprisals into which Sultan Mahmud allowed himself to be carried away only accentuated the difficulty of the situation.

At the same time the feeling he had noticed between his protegee Natasha and Prince Andrew accentuated his gloom by the contrast between his own position and his friend's.

The alliance of this latter power with Athens accentuated the rising jealousy of the Corinthians, who, after deprecating a federal war in 440, virtually forced Sparta's hand against Athens in 432.

The figures, even as they stand, are sufficient to establish a definite German superiority, but they were accentuated by other circumstances.

But in 1901 the strength of the active army and reserve shows a marked diminution, which became accentuated in the year following.

The theological division was accentuated by the Salters' Hall Controversy (1717-1719), which, nominally touching religious liberty versus subscription, really involved differences as to Trinitarian doctrine.

All these characteristics are accentuated below Little Rock.

Heavy eye makeup and dark red lips accentuated the glamour.

The fact that several accidents had already happened accentuated the risk, and in Great Britain the storage and use of liquefied acetylene are prohibited.

The earlier years of his reign were marked by a liberal spirit and the reform, especially, of the financial administration; but the revolutions of 1831 frightened him into reaction, which was accentuated by the opposition of the parliament to his expenditure on building and works of art.

His first wife, Catherine, daughter of Magnus I., duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, bore him in 1 533 his eldest son Eric. This union was neither long nor happy, but the blame for its infelicity is generally attributed to the lady, whose abnormal character was reflected and accentuated in her unhappy son.

The gentler synclines and anticlines of the earlier part of the period became accentuated, giving rise to pronounced mountain ridges, right across Europe.

The painting, which is accentuated by the lead lines, has great simplicity.

In the south-west the results of this erosion are seen in an accentuated form in the region between the White river and the South Fork of the Cheyenne river, known as the Bad Lands or terres mauvaises.

While Europe and probably North America were occupied by a warm temperate flora, tropical types had been driven southward, while the adaptation of others to arctic conditions had become accentuated.

Fabry in 1893; and the close orbital relationships of cometary groups, accentuated by the pursuit of each other along nearly the same track by the comets of 1843,1880 and 1882, singularly illustrated the probable vicissitudes of their careers.

But Berezowski's pistol shot, which accentuated the estrangement from the tsar, and the news of the death of Maximilian at Queretaro, cast a gloom over the later fetes.

The natural impartiality of his intellect was accentuated by a certain timidity, which is apparent in his writings no less than in his life.

At the same time the contrast between the vast proportions of the Carolingian empire and its feeble administrative control over a still uncivilized community became more and more accentuated.

His Bampton Lectures (in the preparation of which Blanco White had assisted him) were suspected of heresy, and this suspicion was accentuated by a pamphlet put forth by Newman, Elucidations of Dr Hampden's Theological Statements.

This indifference to the welfare of the Protestants added to the estrangement between the elector and his eldest son, which was further accentuated when John George, ignoring the Dispositio Achillea, bequeathed the new mark to one of his younger sons.

She was dressed in typical teenage garb and her large amethyst eyes were accentuated with heavy makeup.

December's parliamentary elections only accentuated this process, much to the anger of Bush's regime.

Small strips of wood are often used within the overall design that accentuated the larger pieces of the overall structure and size.

With the Get Started Eyes kit, you will learn how to define and line your eyes for accentuated drama.

The classic line of a matte black or a gun metal finish frames are accentuated by spring temples.

The Terskei Ala-tau forms a sharply accentuated, continuous, snow-clad range.

Others split readily into fine leaflets or laminae parallel to their bedding, and this structure is accentuated by the presence of films of other materials, such as sand or vegetable debris.

The privatization policies had merely accentuated the power of the market principle over the principle of redistribution.

This is strongly accentuated by the palpable differences between the US and NVA forces.

To a nearby third party, who has no choice in the matter, this staccato and often accentuated dialog can drive you mad!

This dispersion was accentuated in the presence of acute left ventricular dilatation.

Clothing is accentuated by large eyelets, oblique seams, seams on the outside and frayed ends.

This Frankenstein Monster is very tall and emaciated, the actor's frame accentuated by make-up that makes him appear even more gaunt.

Heavy rainfall has accentuated the huge river valleys and steep sided ravines that occur in the mainly volcanic rock.

Huge white backlit tulips accentuated the dark green of the yews.

The front legs should be long and well muscled with accentuated withers, and the back legs should be powerful and well muscled.

But industries of every description were most seriously crippled by the spirit of turbulence and disorder which manifested itself throughout Transcaucasia in the years 1904-1906, accentuated as they were further by the outbreak of the long-rooted racial enmities between theArmenians and the Tatars, especially at Baku in 1905.

But when the lagoon population was largely augmented in 568 as the result of Alboin's invasion, these jealousies were accentuated, and in 584 it was found expedient to appoint twelve other tribunes, known as the Tribuni Majores, who formed a kind of central committee to deal with all matters affecting the general weal of the lagoon communities.

In the West, meanwhile, the growth of the power of the papacy had tended more and more to the interpretation of the word " catholic " as implying communion with, and obedience to, the see of Rome (see Papacy); the churches of the East, no less than the heretical sects of the West, by repudiating this allegiance, had ceased to be Catholic. This identification of " Catholic " with " Roman " was accentuated by the progress of the Reformation.

Sir Henry's own tendency to favour the anti-war section, his refusal to support the government in any way, and his allusion to "methods of barbarism" in connexion with the conduct of the British army (June 14, 1901), accentuated the crisis within the party; and in 1901 the Liberal Imperialists, who looked to Lord Rosebery (q.v.) and Mr Asquith (q.v.) for their political inspiration, showed pronounced signs of restiveness.

A second, more generous coat resulted in ample curl and genuine fullness, accentuated by just the right amount of length - bold, but not so over-the-top that I looked like I was wearing a costume.

They are often accentuated with rosettes, flower petals, lace, pearls, or other delicate embellishments, and are frequently the most expensive flower girl dresses.

This look can be accentuated with a pair of hoop earrings complete with multiple pearls and black onyx beads that match the bracelet and necklace.

Many full-figured gals prefer to have their curves highlighted or accentuated by a piece of lingerie instead of leaving them exposed.

Having some curves is never a bad thing, and curves can be accentuated beautifully with plus size body stockings.

While the loose-fitting cardigan was also trendy in this era, coming into its own as part of the classic twinset, many cardigans were still cut to be V-neck fitted garments that accentuated curves while hugging the waist.

Combined with a stylish bustle which accentuated the backside, women went after a look known as the wasp waist.

Whether you choose ample insect-inspired lenses paraded on the catwalk, or striking rectangular lenses that hit up the coffee house scene, the ambiance of your outfit can be fully accentuated by a proper choice of lenses.

An accentuated oscillation when looking up is seen in upbeat nystagmus.

This style is often accentuated by a side part, and bangs fall on the forehead at a length of about 2 to 3 inches.

For example, if the bangs are combed over to the right side of the face, the tail would most typically be cut on the left side of the head.Common among males and females alike, this look is easily accentuated by vivid, dynamic colors.

It features a clean, slick, streamlined look that is accentuated by smart colors and bold prints.

Paired with a cheeky pair of boy shorts, classical feminine lines can be accentuated.

A nighttime ensemble that calls for chic black slacks, heeled boots and long leather gloves can be accentuated with a thicker shawl in a material such as velvet.

The yellow is accentuated by the rich golden yellow of traditional gold, however it contrasts and is highlighted by white gold or platinum.

The bags were stitched by hand (as they are still today) and accentuated with solid brass hardware, making Dooney & Bourke bags a shoo-in for the luxury accessory scene.

The gleaming patent leather exterior is accentuated by a large bow, which sensually hugs the wallet's flap.

Glitter goths love platform gothic leather boots that feature either glitter or patent leather materials and can be accentuated by stripey shimmering tights.

Jewelry watches can be designer platinum or gold timepieces accentuated with precious stones, or they can also take the form of a bracelet with a watch face.

The bra created a busty shape known as the "Sweater Girl" look, so-called because of the way that sweaters clung to the appealing shape of the bra and accentuated any woman's assets.

Moreover, the Angels are always accentuated by wings, glitter and other eye-catching accessories.

Gary Jules' version accentuated the desolate side of Mad World beautifully.

National rivalries had been accentuated and national differences brought into prominence by the meeting of the nations in a common enterprise; while, on the other hand, Mahommedans and Christians had fraternized as they had never done before during the progress of a Crusade.

After a protracted war with the neighbouring Megarians had accentuated the crisis the Eupatridae gave to one of their number, the celebrated Solon, free power to remodel the whole state (594).

The emperor soon began to repent of this cruelty, and when his remorse had been accentuated by the death of his wife in 818, he pardoned the followers of Bernard and restored their estates, and in 822 did public penance at Attigny.

The severe crisis through which the Ottoman Empire had passed accentuated the need for strengthening it by a drastic reform of its system.

Whilst the campaign of 1809 had seriously shaken the faith of the marshals and the higher ranks in the infallibility of the emperor's judgment, and the slaughter of the troops at Aspern and Wagram had still further accentuated the opposition of the French people to conscription, the result on the fighting discipline of the army had, on the whole, been for good.

This difference was still further accentuated by strong divergence in religious creed.

These preachers of the Restoration were controversialists, keen, moderate and unenthusiastic. These qualities were accentuated in the 18th century, when for a while religious oratory ceased to have any literary value.

Further divisions followed, and the weakness caused by these partitions was accentuated by a rivalry between the two main branches of the family.

During this visit Charles had presented certain towns to Adrian, but an estrangement soon arose between king and pope over the claim of Charles to confirm the election to the archbishopric of Ravenna, and it was accentuated by Adrian's objection to the establishment by Charles of Grimoald III..

The reason of this is readily understood when it is borne in mind how disadvantageous to the function of sight is the unpigmented condition of an albino's eyeball; a disadvantage which would be probably much accentuated, in the cases now under consideration, by the bright glare from the surface of the snow, which forms the natural environment of these animals at the particular period of the year when the winter change occurs.

The vast advance in knowledge of the existing forms of living things that has been acquired and recorded since 1859 has accentuated the difficulty of finding any morphological criteria for species.

Charles attempted to buy off these redoubtable invaders, a policy which aroused the anger of his German subjects, whose resentment was accentuated by the kings indifference to their condition, and found expression in 887 when Arnulf, an illegitimate son of Carloman, the eldest son of Louis the German, led an army of Bavarians against him.

The poverty of the Sicilian population is accentuated by the unequal distribution of wealth among the different classes of society.

But the difficulties of the ministry were somewhat relieved by a split in the Radical party, still further accentuated by the elections of 1879, which enabled Estrup to carry through the army and navy defence bill and the new military penal code by leaning alternately upon one or the other of the divided Radical groups.

The difficulties were accentuated by the lack of association between the correspondents and the real head of the censorship at G.H.Q.

At the congress of Vienna Alexander's attitude accentuated this distrust.

The copy, together with the many careful and highly finished preparatory studies for the heads, limbs and draperies which have been preserved, shows that this must have been the one of DUrer's pictures in which he best combined the broader vision and simpler habits of design which had impressed him in the works of Italian art with his own inherited and ingrained love of unflinchingly grasped fact and rugged, accentuated character.

The indulgence accentuated the division between those who accepted and those who rejected it.

The population generally were, however, distinctly antagonistic to Balmaceda; and this feeling had become accentuated since the 17th of August 1891, on which date he had ordered the execution of a number of youths belonging to the military college at San Lorenzo on a charge of seditious practices.

This attitude towards the English Church was accentuated by the consecration, on the 28th of April 1908, of Mr Arnold Harris Mathew 1 as bishop of the Old Catholics in England by Dr Gerard Gul, Jansenist archbishop of Utrecht.

The prince, under whom a definite peace was made with Malik al-Nasir, the Mameluke ruler of Egypt, had great trouble with powerful viziers and generals which he accentuated by his passion for Bagdad-Khatun, wife of the amir Uosain and daughter of the amir Chupan.

Reviewing one by one the questions on which rivalry existed, Lord Selborne showed that the internal self-government which each colony enjoyed accentuated the difficulty of dealing with these questions as a whole.

The dispute with Brazil over the rich Acre rubberproducing territory was accentuated by the majority of those engaged in the rubber industry being Brazilians, who resented the attempts of Bolivian officials to exercise authority in the district.

Their sexual cells are (probably in all cases) produced from the ectoderm, and lie in those radii which are first accentuated in development.

The depression was accentuated by the financial crisis in America, which affected adversely the wool trade, and in a more marked degree the diamond trade, leading to the partial stoppage of the Kimberley mines.

Evidently the impulse towards unity had to come from without; it began with the alliance between the Carolingians and the Papacy, and was accentuated by the recognition of the liber canonum.

Division with a remainder has thus a certain air of unreality, which is accentuated when the division is performed by means of factors (§ 42).

The construction of a carriage road to Tripoli led to a partial revival of prosperity and to an export of cereals and fruit, and this growth has, in turn, been accentuated by the railway, which now connects it with Aleppo and the Damascus-Beirut line.

The new fortress of Megalopolis, instead of supplying a centre of national life, merely accentuated the mutual jealousy of the cities.

The opponents of the book rely (1) on the testimony of a certain Louis Guyon, who in 1604 declared that the fifth book was made long after Rabelais's death by an author whom he knew, and who was not a doctor, and on the assertion of the bibliographer Du Verdier, about the same time, that it was written by an "ecolier de Valence"; (2) on the fact that the anti-monastic and even anti-Catholic polemic is much more accentuated in it; (3) on the arguments that parts are apparently replicas or rough drafts of passages already appearing in the four earlier books; and (4) that some allusions are manifestly posterior to even the furthest date which can be assigned for the reputed author's decease.

This is accentuated if people reheat the food while still in the container.

Patrons will dine in an elegant environment accentuated by subdued colors, theater-style lighting, oversized mirrors, beautiful floral displays and a maple-top bar.

The successful defence of Buenos Aires accentuated the growing feeling of dissatisfaction with the Spanish connexion, which was soon to lead to open insurrection.

It was not until the 13th century that the symbolical meaning of the cross began to be elaborated, and this was still further accentuated from the 14th century onward by the increasingly widespread custom of adding to it the figure of the crucified Christ and other symbols of the Passion.

Silesia remained a principal objective of the various contending armies and was occupied almost continuously by a succession of ill-disciplined mercenary forces whose depredations and exactions, accentuated at times by religious fanaticism, reduced the country to a state of helpless misery.

But as each successive range, proceeding south, represents a higher step in the terraced ascent from the desert of Gobi to the plateau of Tibet, the ranges when viewed from the north frequently appear like veritable upstanding mountain ranges, and this appearance is accentuated by the general steepness of the ascent; whereas, when viewed on the other hand from the south, these several ranges, owing to their long and gentle slope in that direction, have the appearance of comparatively gentle swellings of the earth's service rather than of well-defined mountain ranges.

Skilfully taking advantage of the jealousies of Poland and Lithuania, as they were accentuated by the personal antagonism of Jagiello and Witowt (q.v.), with the latter of whom the Knights more than once contracted profitable alliances, they even contrived (Treaty of Salin, 1378) to extend their territory by getting possession of the province of Samogitia, the original seat of the Lithuanians, where paganism still persisted, and where their inhuman cruelties finally excited the horror and indignation of Christian Europe.

In October 1878 Lord Dufferin's term of office expired, and his place as governor-general was taken by the marquess of Lorne, whose welcome to the Dominion was accentuated by the fact that he was the son-in-law of the queen, and that his viceroyalty was shared by the princess Louise.

The Lamellibranchia are mainly characterized by the rudimentary condition of the head, and the retention of the primitive bilateral symmetry, the latter feature being accentuated by the lateral compression of the body and the development of the shell as two bilaterally symmetrical plates or valves covering each one side of the animal.

The spirit of his thought is mystical and by no means easy to follow, and this difficulty is accentuated, even to German readers, by the use of artificial terminology.

The sexual cells of the medusoid lie in the endoderm on interradii, that is, on the second set of radii accentuated in the course of development.

The religious quarrel either accentuated, or was accentuated by, political differences, and the rival chiefs, Athanaric and Frithigern, appeared as champions of Paganism and Christianity respectively.

She closed the door behind her, dressed in clothing that accentuated her large breasts and tight body.