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Spotlight

noun

A focus of public attention. Synonyms: glare, limelight, public eye. "When Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency"

A lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer. Synonym: spot.

verb

(past spotlit; past part. spotlit or spotlighted)

Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent. Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up. Antonyms: background, play down.

Illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater.

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"Spotlight" Quotes from Famous Books

... as she answered him, and the light from her candle, glowing brightly in a split tomato can, fell clearly upon Mary Standish as the old woman waddled toward them. It was as if a spotlight had been thrown upon the girl suddenly out of a pit of darkness, and something about her, which was not her prettiness or the beauty that was in her eyes and hair, sent a sudden and unaccountable thrill through Alan. It remained with him when they drew back out of gloom and chill into sunshine ...

— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood

... almost mystic entertainment, the great Obosky herself had appeared in one of her most marvellous creations,—the "Dance of the Caliph's Dream,"—the sensational, never-to-be-forgotten dance that had been the talk of three continents. There was no spotlight to follow her sinuous, scantily clad figure as it spun and leaped and glided about the dim, starlit Green; there was no blare of brass and cymbals, nor the haunting wail of flageolets,—only the tinkle of mandolins and Spanish guitars to guide her bewildering feet,—and ...

— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon

... widened slightly, but he asked no questions. Trigger Argee's name was known rather widely, as a matter of fact, particularly on her home world. And as he remembered Trigger, she wasn't a girl who'd go look for a spotlight to stand in. ...

— Legacy • James H Schmitz

... cause of all unprofitable forgetfulness. Do not allow your attention to grope vaguely among a number of things. Whatever you do, make a business of doing it with your whole soul. Turn the spotlight of your mind upon it, and you ...

— The Trained Memory • Warren Hilton

... line of light streaming through the almost closed portieres leading to the hallway outside. This ray of light, striking along the floor, pauses by the library table, just disclosing the edge of it but not revealing anything else in the room. The spotlight in the hands of a shadowy figure roves across the wall and to the portieres. As it pauses there the portieres move and the fingers of a girl are seen on the edge of the silk. A bare and beautiful arm is thrust through the portieres almost to the shoulder, and it ...

— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve

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