emphases

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The difference was not just one of opposing political ideologies but of vastly different cultural and human emphases.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2024

Where Hearts had made the right choices in key moments, Celtic too often took the wrong option with passes, crosses and emphases.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2023

There were emphases on ballhandling, shooting from midrange, being aggressive, driving to the basket and finishing around the rim.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2023

The emphases include the preservation and restoration of the liberal arts, including the “great books,” and the traditions of Western civilization.

From Washington Times • Apr. 13, 2022

In placing the lecture before the public in print, it is impossible, by having recourse to any system of punctuation, to indicate the pauses, jerky emphases, and odd inflexions of voice which characterised the delivery.

From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Ward, Artemus