descollar
Por encima de mH descollaba la esfinge, sobre su pedestal de bronce, blanca, brillante, leprosa, bajo la luz de la luna que ascendHa. | Above me towered the sphinx, upon the bronze pedestal, white, shining, leprous, in the light of the rising moon. |
Pero, paulatinamente, se iba implicando más en las actividades operacionales sobre el terreno, en tanto que descollaba la necesidad de un intermediario neutral entre los beligerantes. | But it gradually became more involved in field operations, as the need for a neutral intermediary between belligerents became apparent. |
Piaget descollaba en el campo de la psicología del desarrollo personal, y se daba por sentado que a partir de la adultez temprana el aprendizaje prácticamente se detenía y se iniciaba un proceso de declinación general. | Piaget reigned in the psychology of personal development and it was taken for granted that from early adulthood learning virtually ended and it was all downhill. |
