Sentence examples for first-rate account from inspiring English sources

The Washington Ballet Orchestra gave a first-rate account of the score; Scott Speck paced it to perfection.

"Her firsthand, and first-rate, account" is filled with "well-reported anecdotes," Ian Fisher wrote in the Book Review last year.

In telling the interconnected stories of women's rights and women's cycling, Macy, the author of several nonfiction books profiling notable women, delivers a first-rate account.

A firsthand, first-rate account, both anecdotal and documentary, of the era of Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator who looted his country (called, at the time, Zaire) of billions.

The book gives the heroic Dutch of 1940 their due, rightly blasts the Allied campaign in Italy and gives a first-rate account of the Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40 in which casualties for the Finlanders were about 68,000 and for the Russians, 500,000 to 1 million.

For all these apparent disadvantages, Patterson came back with a first-rate, quietly enthralling account that belongs on the shelf with Paul Theroux's "Happy Isles of Oceania," Jonathan Raban's sailings and, for that matter, with the work of the landlubber Bruce Chatwin.

The result is a first-rate and detailed account of how scientists who work with images of Mars transform those images into credible knowledge.

The singing--often by Broadway-trained Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele--is thrillingly first-rate and may account, along with Disney's High School Musical trilogy, for a reawakened interest among teenagers in musical comedy, so long a butt of sitcom jokes.

Journalists such as Andrew Ross Sorkin have provided first-rate blow-by-blow accounts of what went wrong.

The two great oratorios, "Die Schöpfung" ("The Creation") and "Die Jahreszeiten" ("The Seasons"), have never lacked for first-rate interpretations, with classic accounts by conductors like Herbert von Karajan, Thomas Beecham and Georg Solti still holding places in the catalog.

While the 352nd was considered a first-rate division, the 716th was "accounted a better-than-average static division"; these divisions generally had very few vehicles or tanks and had to rely on infantry and field regiments.