Sentence examples for is apogee from inspiring English sources
noun
The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is furthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.
When it's closer, it's referred to as "perigee", and the opposite is "apogee".
Inside the living-room-size control booth, the always calm Bob Clearmountain, a secret rock legend in his own right (sound mixer and producer extraordinaire and whose wife, Betty Bennett, is Apogee's C.E.O. and founder), sat wide-eyed and ready at the control board.
This idea reaches is apogee in Benedetto Croce, who very nearly denies that nature can ever be beautiful, or at any rate asserts that the beauty of nature is a reflection of the beauty of art.
Among the tenants that Central Park Corporate Campus has attracted this year, he said, are Apogee Networks, Country Wide Home Loans, Del Monte, NJ Sports Production, Procter & Gamble and World Audio Visual Enterprises.
"This is the apogee of its type.
And pool skating is the apogee.
It is the apogee of Fordism gone mad".." Not all schools are bad, Seldon adds.
To many architects, the Lawn is the apogee of Jefferson's Enlightenment thinking writ in the landscape.
(Among hog hunters, I found, taking on a big hog alone with only the help of dogs is the apogee of hog hunting).
The choices thereafter are many – you are close to the ridge and the Spanish border – but that spring is the apogee of the walk.
On the one hand, there's the impulse to ridicule or ignore the very tourist traps of which "Cats" is the apogee.
