Frank Rich's review led with, "There is, at least, a first-rate set".
It's a razor-sharp moment, brutal and harsh, delivered by an excellent actor on a first-rate set.
The Swedish players had already made that point on recordings, particularly in a first-rate set of Nielsen symphonies conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen for Sony Classical.
It helps him underline ironies, emphasize oddities and bond with the audience as Charlotte takes us on a tour — literally — of her stuff (the first-rate set is by Hugh Landwehr) and, less literally, of her life.
Mark Carney enters his first rate-setting meeting as Bank of England governor this week armed with further evidence of Britain's economic recovery, as a wide-ranging survey signals rising confidence, strong export growth and job creation among UK businesses.
The unanimous decision to raise rates, the first time in months that the 10 members of FOMC had all agreed on policy, came at the end of the committee's first rate-setting meeting since the election of Donald Trump as America's next president.
Another first-rate resort, set on a big, sandy beach with calm waters, is Carlisle Bay, Antigua.
THERE are first-rate opera sets: among them, "Fidelio" (with the Danish soprano Inga Nielsen in the title role), "The Barber of Seville," "The Flying Dutchman" and "The Magic Flute," with singers like Hellen Kwon and Kurt Rydl.
It is a first-rate, mint condition set of 80 etchings printed from the artist's plates.
So it has gone this season, though Coney Island remains pretty much what it was 30 years ago -- a cliche of seedy decay, a shrunken little strip of mostly second-rate amusements set against a charmless backdrop of high-rise housing projects.
He found Polish philosophical life dormant and third-rate, and set about vitalising the subject and building its Polish institutions, at the cost of his own academic output.
