Sentence examples for as first-rate from inspiring English sources

"I'm not sure how anyone, even someone as first-rate as Bill McLucas, can really draw any conclusions this early," said Mr. Sorkin, who formerly served as an assistant United States attorney in New York and also once headed the S.E.C.'s New York office.

The people with whom he has surrounded himself are just as first-rate as his material.

But there aren't many ensembles that are as first-rate as the ones we present". Southern California is home to a number of organizations that sponsor chamber music.

Several restaurants and wholesalers mislabelled inferior produce as first-rate.

None of them had been identified by N.F.L. scouts or even college recruiters as first-rate material.

Its African collection, Egyptian artifacts and pre-Columbian material, particularly its Andean textiles, are regarded as first-rate.

Movies as second-rate as this one have a habit of turning critics into hitmen.

There, she meets an inferior-seeming fellow, and humiliates herself before him so many times that she's forced to acknowledge that she may be as second-rate as he is.

The first issue was also released at the same time as the first issue of Hearst Magazine's "O: The Oprah Magazine," which Mr. Pearlstine described as "first rate".

His predecessor Neil MacGregor described him as "first rate" and prophesied firmly "he's going to be a great success in the job".

Both The New York Times and The Daily News described her singing of Mozart arias and Strauss songs as first rate.