Sentence examples for first-rate at from inspiring English sources

And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate".

As Harry Angstrom, John Updike's basketball star turned car salesman, says in Rabbit Run: "Once you've been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate".

As Harry Rabbitt" Angstrom knows only too well, "after you've been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate".

The food on both sides of the avenue is first-rate, at least if you stick to the original script of salad and tangy, prime-rated beef, or salad and huge, perfectly acceptable lobster, along with potatoes and greens.

But Butterworth's nightmare vision is beautifully articulated in Ian Rickson's hectic production and the ensemble playing is first-rate … At 26, Butterworth already knows how to rhythm a play, write cracking dialogue and build tension: I just pray the movies and cop series don't bag him before he goes on to develop as a dramatist.

Whatever happens in the sculptures, we are always watching a first-rate craftsman at work.

Easter afternoon brought a first-rate performance at Salle Pleyel of Bach's "St.

Peter was a first-rate journalist at Women's Wear Daily and Time, where he covered national and international news.

But while much of the show is first-rate and at times even inspired, it has also been tasteful in a way that is on some level numbing.

Anna de Codorníu Brut Rosé ($14 Codorníu was one of the first to proudly show that Spanish cavas could be first-rate sparklers at a very decent price.

Stanford University is still a great institution, offering a first-rate education at its physical campus.