Literary notes about prestigious (AI summary)
The term "prestigious" is often used to evoke a sense of exceptional status and honor in literary contexts. It is frequently applied to institutions and organizations, such as universities, law families, and even space agencies, to underscore their longstanding reputations and high standards [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. At the same time, the word appears in narratives relating to personal accomplishments and notable feats—from scholarly pursuits and governmental appointments to mystical quests and even ironic or unexpected contexts like a solo musical instrument or a hacking group [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]. In this way, "prestigious" serves as a versatile descriptor that elevates a subject's character, reputation, or achievement, whether used earnestly or to create a contrast with more commonplace elements [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25].
- She chose Cal Tech, selected after turning down acceptances from half a dozen prestigious universities in the East.
— from Project Cyclops by Thomas Hoover - Administrators and scientists in the world's most prestigious space agency had spent years trying to get the unmanned probe into space.
— from Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier by Suelette Dreyfus - Galbally was a young, well-respected member of Melbourne's most prestigious law family.
— from Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier by Suelette Dreyfus - Who's Who of prestigious institutions around the world.
— from Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier by Suelette Dreyfus - She’s a Smith College alumna, a human dictionary, now working as publications director at a prestigious prep school.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman - But I would hardly have considered the viola to be a prestigious solo instrument.
— from Violists by Richard McGowan - I could have continued my studies at a prestigious university, but I longed for a mystical quest.
— from Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult by Mark E. Laxer - Not even Erik Bloodaxe, one of the leaders of the most prestigious American hacking group, Legion of Doom (LOD), got DEFCON when he asked for it.
— from Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier by Suelette Dreyfus - Thus in the last decade of his life he finally exchanged his straw sandals and reed hat for the robes of a prestigious abbot over a major monastery.
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover - The ecclesiastic in Transcendentalism who was also a magician and performed the “prestigious feat” of conjuring roses up in winter.
— from The Browning Cyclopædia: A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe - The company probably hadn't meant to become the world's most prestigious hacker hang-out, but it soon ended up doing so.
— from Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier by Suelette Dreyfus - “Of course that doesn't affect your fate in any way, and as to him he is much too prestigious to be killed light-heartedly.
— from The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad - The ‘prestigious feat’ of causing flowers to appear in winter, was a common one.”
— from An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson - A prestigious independent auditor was engaged to evaluate the deposit.
— from Joe Burke's Last Stand by John Moncure Wetterau - They were appointed to prestigious places in the army, the church, or the royal bureaucracy.
— from De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo: Explorers of the Northern Mystery by David Lavender - Didn’t our Internet addresses end with a prestigious “.net” rather than “.com” (the designation for a commercial site) or “.edu” (for a school site)?
— from NetWorld! What People Are Really Doing on the Internet and What It Means to You by David H. Rothman - The "prestigious feat" of causing flowers to appear in winter was a common one.
— from A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs. - He had had nothing out of them—nothing of the prestigious or the desirable things of the earth, craved for by predatory natures.
— from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad - We should listen to the Jefferson Warning not because it is prestigious but because of its insight.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle - These are some of the prestigious merits of the bicycle, though many more might be added.
— from Hortus VitaeEssays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee - So were the prestigious lobbying firm, Cassidy and Associates and assorted assistant secretaries in the Bush administration.
— from Financial Crime and Corruption by Samuel Vaknin - They'd passed these brilliant fakes on the prestigious Wall Street investment firm of Jay Cooke and Company.
— from The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling - Europa a young Ladye, swimming into Creete vppon a prestigious Bull.
— from Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Francesco Colonna - Being bestowed with the prestigious and highest state award, the Jivbadada Kerkar Award for Best Organiser for the year 1984-85.
— from Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various - This was the title of the cover page of the prestigious magazine, "The Economist" in its issue of 10/1/98.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
