crowning

The last is almost incomprehensible until you're familiar with his themes (and you'll still need the annotations), but Crash and AE are his crowning glories.

The Medal is is probably just crowning their hard work.

The caching system for IIS has always been one of their crowning achievements, working better than most systems.

Only if you thought Cryptonomicon was regretfully short, and the final chapter was the crowning achievement of Stephensons writing.

In a final crowning achievement, the team has shown that daily fellatio greatly reduces the incidence of breast cancer.

Now Napoleon, on crowning himself Emperor, probably should have used that money to buy Europe, instead of invading it.

That is no more likely to happen than a return to some sort of monarchy or crowning of an American king/queen.

Yes, we also know that's the number one use case, which serves as Facebook's crowning contribution to humanity.

My crowning achievement was writing up the complete procedure for installing a printer.

It's less of a crowning as it is bringing in those who can transform, with leadership, the mechanisms and operating procedures of a department.

A crowning achievement of Silicon Valley culture is its professionalisation of risk-taking.

I consider it one of Peavey's crowning achievements, maybe the best thing they ever made.

If Mozilla licensed DRM from a competing browser vendor, they would effectively be crowning a de facto DRM "standard" based on combined browser market share.

Saying that Eugene Goostman "passed the Turing Test" is like crowning me World Chess Champion, based on the amazing record of beating 70% of a random sample of six year olds.

Quote: "I've written on many occasions about what I call universal criminality, the crowning achievement of the modern police state, under which there are so many vague, overbroad and counterintuitive laws that every single person is in violation of at least a few of them at all times." Show a little class -- admit that this is Ayn Rand's idea.

What I really want is for a kid to see me die and tell himself, "Now I want to be a terminal metastatic oncology patient when I grow up, because I will never in my whole existence see anything as awesome as that guy's crowning moment of self-euthanasia, unless I can also strap myself in to the very same harness and dare to dream of dreams beyond sleep." And wow, is that kid precocious, or what?