Sentence examples for preferred to shine from inspiring English sources
An appreciative Forte preferred to shine a light on his costars -- and not just Dern and Squibb, but the countless extras Payne and his longtime casting director collaborator, John Jackson, found to play Woody's family and the residents of his hometown.
That was a dark season for a writer who instinctively prefers to shine.
Marie is a woman who favours self-erasure, loves her grey gallery uniform, courts boredom, avoids risk, prefers not to shine; yet the novel she narrates is an original and assertive performance with more than a hint of the baroque.
Some residents, already sensitized by the long parade of cars that materializes every time the New London ferry departs or disgorges arriving passengers, prefer not to shine a spotlight on their pastoral backwater.
Preferring instead to shine a spotlight on Oz The Great and Powerful.
Memorials preferred to NYU School of Law.
More is preferred to less".
"Limb" was preferred to "leg".
Sliver is preferred to gold.
Alfonzo is quiet by nature, preferring to let his personality shine with a dry humor.
