Sample Sentences forascendant (auto-selected)
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He died in 1804, when the cultural epoch we call Romanticism was in the ascendant.† (source)
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Mars ascendant.† (source)
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In fact, an overview of the Carrie White case leaves the careful student with one feeling ascendant over all others: that Carrie was the only issue of a family as odd as any that has ever been brought to popular attention.† (source)
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The singing, even in the halls, of famous sopranos and baritones, the armies of orchestras and chamber ensembles playing music that had been composed when the empire was vital and ascendant, the fires and candle light, the speaking of French and English among people of purple blood, and the strong sense of a ship that was going down, kept Alessandro on edge throughout the nights.† (source)
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An Ascendant is very rare, Max—especially in the last millennium.† (source)
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Most of them were called something relief: ASCENDANT RELIEF, ENDOGENOUS RELIEF, MOTIVE RELIEF, GALVANIC RELIEF.† (source)
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Alice grabs it with stoical indifference, pumping wearily away like some marathon bellringer while I pant and groan ludicrously and hear myself whimpering such asininities as "Oh God, that's good, Mary Alice!" and catch a glimpse of her lovely and totally unconcerned face even as there rises in me lust and despair in almost equal measure—with despair, however, ascendant regarding this loutish business.† (source)
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His ascendants had indulged in hashish, but he preferred a different kind of gratification.† (source)
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Well could he fortune* the ascendent *make fortunate Of his images for his patient, He knew the cause of every malady, Were it of cold, or hot, or moist, or dry, And where engender'd, and of what humour.† (source)
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Abraham Lincoln is the undisputed leader of the world's most ascendant nation, a country spanning three thousand miles and touching two oceans.† (source)
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Ascendants had great stores of the Old Magic in them; they were very powerful.† (source)
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Ethnic violence lent strength both to Tutsi supremacists in exile and to ideologues of Hutu power, ascendant inside Rwanda.† (source)
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Traces of elephantiasis have been discovered among his ascendants.† (source)
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Galbatorix is ascendant, and every race fights to remain free of his rule.† (source)
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In 1933, with Hitler ascendant in Germany, Will Rogers was the first to draw a line between the new Klan and the new threat in Europe: "Papers all state Hitler is trying to copy Mussolini," he wrote.† (source)
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A famous writer once wrote, 'An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher, or a magician — but the magician, the enchanter, is in the ascendant.'† (source)
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