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Limelight   /lˈaɪmlˌaɪt/   Listen
noun
limelight, lime light  n.  An intense light produced by heating lime. See Calcium light under Calcium.



limelight  n.  (Theat.) That part of the stage upon which the limelight is cast, usually where the most important action is progressing or where the leading player or players are placed and upon which the attention of the spectators is therefore concentrated. Hence, A conspicuous position before the public; the center of public attention; used mostly in the phrase in the limelight; as, politicians who are never happy except in the limelight.






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"Limelight" Quotes from Famous Books



... lamps every crack and crevice of the tunnel walls was in plain sight to the occupants of the car. The two fugitives might as well have attempted concealment under the limelight in the center of the stage of ...
— Boy Scouts in an Airship • G. Harvey Ralphson

... yesterday 14 to 4, and thereby leaped into the limelight. It was a surprise to every one, Herne most of all. Owing to the stringent eligibility rules now in force at Wayne, and the barring of the old varsity, nothing was expected of this season's team. Arthurs, the famous coach, has built a wonderful ...
— The Young Pitcher • Zane Grey

... gasp of astonishment from the other players and some of the spectators as the two enemies were thus brought into the limelight. As for Tom, he felt a sinking at his heart, for he realized that Sam had it in his power to make or mar his play by the manner in which he ...
— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman

... movement in behalf of a richer rural life and of better rural schools is now before the country. It is the subject of discussion everywhere. It is in the limelight; the literature on the subject is voluminous; books without number, on all phases of the subject, are coming from the press. Educational papers and magazines, and even the lay press, are devoting unstinted space to ...
— Rural Life and the Rural School • Joseph Kennedy

... succeeded. Their souls had followed it over the footlights, and, floating in the limelight, shone there awaiting the fulfilment ...
— Young Lives • Richard Le Gallienne


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