Example sentences of "he be above all " in BNC.

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1 Gandhi actually acknowledges this fact ; he is above all a practical idealist .
2 For he is above all concerned to deny that the point of the universe is somehow to serve human interests .
3 He is always older than the heroine , usually in his early or mid-30s , rich , successful in the vocation of his own choice … he is above all virile .
4 He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless .
5 Intelligent , sensitive and artistic , with a certain diffidence which added to his charm , he was above all a man of absolute integrity .
6 There he was above all an observer of life , carrying on — forgive the pun those observations into the characters he played .
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