Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant — Alafair Burke
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of oxford is capricornus, whose lord is saturn — John Aubrey
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. — John Stuart Mill
They were…well, Beautiful People! – not ‘students’, ‘clerks’, ‘salesgirls’, ‘executive trainees’ — Tom Wolfe
The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all — Robert Charles Wilson