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• r  to a preeminent degree; with superiority or distinction above others; in a preeminent manner
  a wide variety of pre-eminently contemporary scenes

• Leaving the prisoners "indefinitely beyond the reach of any legal regime," said the Economist last week, "would put America--pre-eminently a nation of laws--itself outside the law.
• The telephone, modern painting, but pre-eminently television are cool and good.
• FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT THE 1933 INAUGURATION This is pre-eminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.

• preeminently

News & Articles

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• ORTEL: As the world convulses, America's greatest danger lies at home from mounting debt
  ANALYSIS/OPINION: Mired in the first modern depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened his inaugural address in 1933 by saying: "This is pre-eminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly." What a refreshing concept — that elected officials might tell the truth to the people. With ...
  March 9, 2014 - The Washington Times

Quotes

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• Franklin D Roosevelt in Toledo Blade
  Franklin Roosevelt once said that the presidency was "pre-eminently a place of moral leadership," and his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, called it a "bully pulpit."
• Arlen Specter in USA Today
  Specter said the FISA court "has really an outstanding record of not leaking, and of being experts. And they would be pre-eminently well-qualified to evaluate this program and either say it's OK or it's not OK."
• Harold Kroto in The Press Association
  Professor Harry Kroto, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996, said: "It surely comes as no surprise that DNA has come out top. It is not only pre-eminently important to understanding almost every fundamental aspect of life itself but...