(interj.) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
(n.) The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
(2) Meals on Wheels has operated in Britain for almost 70 years, and in its heyday delivered more than 34 million meals.
(3) On the contrary, an exquisite haute couture dress - like the ones that Cristóbal Balenciaga created in his 1950s heyday - can look as perfect as a beautiful painting or sculpture.
(4) In its Victorian heyday families would go to Blackpool for a fortnight.
(5) It recalls the heyday of conscious or socially redeeming rap and will be hailed as a restorative for those resistant to recent hip-hop developments.
(6) Back in Duran Duran's heyday, the only communal fan experiences were concerts, playground discussions or sporadic missives from distant pen pals.
(7) Or if Kelly Rowland has got over that mysterious debilitating throat infection which comes on every time she thinks of the heyday of Destiny's Child and juxtaposes it with watching a skeleton in a TK Maxx tracksuit doing falsetto Kylie Minogue.
(8) Black workers were barred from enjoying the full fruits of Detroit’s manufacturing heyday, while black prospective homebuyers were prevented from pursuing the American dream of single family home-ownership .
(9) In its heyday, senior police officers nodded to the power of the "the Fed" in speeches to recruits after basic training.
(10) Under her editorship, the News of the World circulation averaged around 3.5m, less than the 4m it sold during its 1980s heyday, but sales held up at a time when the circulation of many of its rivals were falling sharply.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Galliano in his heyday with Christian Dior, at the finale of his Paris fashion week show in 2009.
(12) Heartbeat, which originally starred Nick Berry as a London policeman transferred to a north Yorkshire village, was for years a mainstay of ITV's Sunday night schedule, attracting audiences of 15 million viewers in its 1990s heyday.
(13) In his mid-Eighties heyday, d'Offay was representing Gerhard Richter, Howard Hodgkin, Gilbert & George and Richard Long as well as showing Carl Andre and Andy Warhol.
(14) Lerner agrees that documentaries are enjoying a heyday.
(15) The last time this effect of the first past the post system was seen was in the 1980s during the heyday of the Liberal-SDP Alliance, when Simon Hughes and Rosie Barnes won famous victories.
(16) He had the whole dinner set.” Educated in Israel and the US, Herzog worked in his father’s prestigious Tel Aviv law firm and entered public life as a Labour MP in 2003, when the party was long past its heyday as the dominant force in Israeli political life, and when the second intifada had grimly underlined the intractability of the conflict with the Palestinians.
(17) Few cities in the developed world can have been put as comprehensively through the wringer as Yubari, on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido and known in its heyday as the capital of coal.
(18) It is in third place in the competitive London commercial market with an average weekly reach of 1.9 million listeners, up from 1.5 million three years ago but a long way down on its 1990s heyday, when it had an audience of more than 3 million.
(19) In effect, Hanningfield wants a return to the heyday of local government, when cities and counties civilised Britain long before a national government developed a social agenda to help communities and people in need.
(20) In Duerson's heyday, she recalls, if a player took a knock, the coach would hold up two fingers and say "how many can you count?
Zenith
Definition:
(n.) That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.
(n.) hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(2) After 24 h of fasting the zenith was shifted to the beginning of dark period without any other changes.
(3) Clinical electroencephalography, which reached a zenith in the 1950s and 1960s, increased the range of diagnostic techniques available for a series of brain diseases and revolutionized the study of epilepsy.
(4) That triumphal speech was his apex, the acme, the zenith of his career.
(5) The circadian rhythm of PRL persisted throughout lactation as manifested by: (1) significantly higher mean nighttime than daytime PRL levels in the whole sample, despite higher daytime nursing durations; (2) the distribution of zenith levels which most frequently occur between 23.00 and 07.00 h, when nursing duration is lowest, and which are almost absent between 07.00 and 23.00 h, when nursing duration is highest, and of nadir levels, which have an opposite pattern; (3) spontaneous PRL surges that are more frequent, longer, and of higher magnitude at night than during the day, and (4) the larger magnitude of suckling-induced PRL release from late afternoon through the night compared to the morning in some women.
(6) The zeniths of the curves were recorded about 4--6 hours after the skin incision in both patient groups, despite the different duration of the operations.
(7) However, 1990 proved to be not only the Indy's circulation zenith but also a watershed for its publishing company as recession bit hard into revenue.
(8) After 48 h of fasting remarkable shifts were found resulting in a nadir at the beginning of dark period and a zenith at the middle of light period.
(9) The dying have much to teach the living: so in many ways, this project is the zenith of the Big Brother experiment.
(10) The kind of cinema that reached a zenith in Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers .
(11) The cercal system, which may have evolved with the first terrestrial hexapods, reaches its zenith in the orthopteroid insects, but was replaced in holometabolan insects by visual startle mechanisms with descending giant interneurons.
(12) Population growth reached its zenith between 1950-70.
(13) We detected a consistent and significant (P less than 0.01) decline in plasma chromium after glucose administration, the nadir of the chromium response coinciding with the zenith of the glucose concentration.
(14) Thus, the ED30s constitute the "zenith" of an independent isobole in ED50 isobolograms.
(15) They reached a zenith during the Vietnam war when the US government allegedly conducted their highly classified Operation Popeye, an attempt to extend the monsoon season by cloud seeding in the hope of flushing out the Viet Cong.
(16) On Sunday, Mélenchon's star reached its zenith, when early results gave him 11.1% of votes, several percentage points lower than had been expected.
(17) Whereas phosphate has a marked circadian rhythmicity with a zenith between 1.00 and 8.00 hours, total calcium and albumin show a tendency to decrease between 20.00 and 6.00 hours.
(18) The zenith of suppressor activity was observed during most active infection, from 1 to 3 weeks after inoculation.
(19) At the zenith of a culture war, there’s seldom room for compromise.
(20) The highest pressures in the series (about 4 to 5 megaNewtons per square metre) were on the areas of thin fibrocartilage which were identified at the zenith of certain acetabula.