acme

the acme of perfection

the acme of good behavior

the acme of one’s hope

physics is the acme of scientific knowledge.

reached the acme of his career

Denis was in the acme of embarrassment.

The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the acme of Chinese autocratic and centralized feudal society.

Such changes, however, reach their acme in the so-called alternate generations of some of the lower animals.

However, though they flourished to an acme for a certain period, they found no continuity.

They are the acme of Nature's architecture, and in building them she has outrivalled all her erstwhile conceptions.

In short, it praised the determined action of the Government as the acme of human wisdom and mercy, and exulted in the inauguration of an epoch of reasonable democracy free from the tyrannical fads of Socialism.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight and conquer and the whole Empire says, " Well done! "