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

It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life.

In his view, the Internet is a second-rate substitute for a consultant's ability to select compatible managers.

The magazine, while acknowledging that "homosexuals are present in every walk of life," concluded that homosexuality is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life.

Even in the liberal press, homosexuality drew scorn: in The New York Review of Books, Philip Roth denounced the "ghastly pansy rhetoric" of Edward Albee, and a Time cover story dismissed the gay world as a "pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life".

"He was first-rate.

"Gerald is first-rate.

Really first-rate.

Service is first-rate.

First-rate social realism.

The writing was first-rate.

"It's really first-rate".