Sentence examples similar to first-rate mark from inspiring English sources

What constantly impressed was her fastidious intelligence and capacity for stillness: always the mark of a first-rate actor.

One of Zeller's gifts, however, is to write stunning lead roles, and Gina McKee as Anne displays the emotional transparency that is a mark of the first-rate actor.

But then it was also Fitzgerald who had said, at an earlier and more optimistic moment, that the mark of "a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function" in illustration of which we might counter the fatalism of "no second acts" with its venerable opposite, "It's not over till the fat lady sings".

Craig Lucas, who wrote the book for the show, is responsible for this narrative undercurrent, which also lends a whiff of flirtatiousness to Margaret's relationship with Clara's suave prospective father-in-law (the first-rate Mark Harelik).

"He was first-rate.

"Gerald is first-rate.

Really first-rate.

Service is first-rate.

First-rate social realism.

The writing was first-rate.

All first-rate.