Then he sent questionnaires to all the "mostly eminent and some very distinguished old people" he could think of.
You'll see lots and lots of men, starting with the first industrial designers, mostly eminent artists, like Charles Le Brun, who designed tapestries for Gobelins in 17th-century France, and George Stubbs, whose ceramics were manufactured by Wedgwood in 18th-century England.
The New York Times' Stephen Holden says, "Beyond its blindingly colorful palate, the pleasures to be gleaned from ['Second Best'] derive from watching its eminent, mostly British cast ham it up while trying to inflate dramatic molehills into mountains.
(The notion is mostly untrue today among eminent painters; Matisse's studio, for instance, was as tidy as a rich doctor's waiting room, and the dandified Braque keeps his workrooms as well tended and polished as the shoes on his feet).
24 portraits, mostly from the National Portrait Gallery, show eminent women from the late 18th century to the present day.
In many ways late Le Carré remains a pre-eminent English writer – mostly for his consummate prose-creation of atmosphere.
Eminent Polish scientists, working mostly in foreign research centers, were invited to deliver the plenary lectures.
By 1960 there were more than 300 members, mostly dignitaries who held or had held high political, judicial, or ecclesiastical office, along with an occasional eminent person in science or letters.
Aubrey's Brief Lives are mostly lives of the kind of men who still attract biographers today: eminent writers, philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, doctors, astrologers, soldiers, sailors, lawyers, dignitaries of the state and church.
Occasionally banned and denounced in East Germany during the decades before he was hailed as its pre-eminent playwright, Muller was known when the 1970's began (mostly by specialists, in the West) as the author of bravely impressive but somewhat dour classical adaptations, Brechtian "learning plays," and realistic dramas about the problems of building socialism.
As a youth, he gave some attention to the ways of the brook fish of western Switzerland, but his permanent interest in ichthyology began with his study of an extensive collection of Brazilian fishes, mostly from the Amazon River, which had been collected in 1819 and 1820 by two eminent naturalists at Munich.
