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Dear teachers,

Would you be kind enough to give me your considered opinion concerning the interpretation of the expressions in bold in the following sentences?

All his father’s power of seeing the worst, all James’ nervous pessimism, had come to the fore in him during the hour since, at the Connoisseurs’ Club, he had been handed that letter. (J. Galsworthy, “The White Monkey”)

In the struggle for these demands many fundamental questions will come to the fore…

come to the fore = stand out, emerge, spring up, come out into the open

V.