You cannot win a major contest like the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, as Mr. Kobrin did in 2005, without knowing how to dazzle.
An $18 dry Johannisberg riesling from the Finger Lakes region was voted New York's best wine of 2003 yesterday in a major contest limited to the state's wines.
Democrats, who have not had a major contest since New Hampshire on Feb. 1, are on ballots from coast to coast on Tuesday.
Wins over fences have come against a maximum of four rivals and he's been well beaten every time he's tackled a major contest.
An acknowledged master chocolatier was furious when his chocolate antique gramophone was eliminated from a major contest on a technicality, the prize instead going to a pipe organ modelled by a rival.
We sense Slavik's forebodings as he prepares his patent leather hair in the bathroom, stares at himself in mirrors and finds himself unable to eat anything before a major contest.
One of the struggles a fighter has before a major contest is with himself: how to convince an opponent and the paying customers that he is who he says he is.
A 2000 riesling from a winery in the Finger Lakes region defeated 485 wines, the largest number ever entered, to be named the best New York wine of 2001 in a major contest of the state's wines this week.
