Sentence examples for a limelight from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it's a limelight thing.

"He's not a limelight guy," Christensen said.

Caplan describes Allred as "always a limelight person," the most popular girl at every synagogue dance.

A limelight produces light by directing a sharp point of oxyhydrogen flame against a cylindrical block of lime.

As Harvard graduates, we have both the fortune of having a limelight shining on our shoulders wherever we go, and an important responsibility that comes with that illumination.

With Dummy, Portishead brought the emerging genre of trip hop to mainstream attention, which was not a limelight the group necessarily enjoyed.

A city that in 2008 enjoyed the limelight of a World Expo is now one of Spain's most troubled.

"I couldn't imagine, actually, what it would be like where you're in the limelight at a young age".

BAN KI-MOON has hardly been a limelight-stealer during his 10 months as secretary-general of the United Nations.

To their eyes, Anthony Ward Clare is little more than a limelight-starved, ingratiating searcher of tittle-tattle, a jumped up Delia Smith with pretensions.

But that a limelight-shunning designer who is known in fashion circles (she was McQueen's righthand woman for 14 years) but unknown in the wider world is to get the dress commission of the century seems further proof that quietness rules fashion now.