limelight

The brazen land grab of Crimea was planned while Putin was enjoying the limelight of the Sochi Winter Olympics.

However, Cooke can never really bring himself to see Joplin as ruined by the limelight.

There were speeches, but not from Joe Sutter, who held back from the limelight.

But Sam more or less managed to stay out of the limelight until he was connected to the star of Sydney White.

But it became pretty clear once Levine was in the limelight why this Jane dumped his ass.

Limelight and the center of the stage was a passion of Sam Clemens's boyhood, a love of the spectacular that never wholly died.

Used to going unostentatiously about with her chums, she now found herself continually in the limelight.

The vulgarity and love of the limelight which Du Maurier had satirized were multiplied tenfold.

The clashing bayonets flashed like quicksilver, and faces were lit up as by limelight.

Years ago a limelight was so arranged as to be used on board ship for illuminating objects at a great distance.