Towering
of Tower
Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.
Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.
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Towering Quotations
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J. B. Priestley
One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.
Roone Arledge
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Joseph Priestley
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
Robert Crumb
Towering Translations
towering in German is gewaltig, emporragend, sich erhebend
towering in Italian is poderoso
towering in Spanish is pujante
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