Sentence examples for for grandees from inspiring English sources
Overlooked art Gongs a go-go for grandees of the arts and literary worlds, with New Year Honours being awarded to Sir Roy Strong, Ed Victor, Matthew Bourne and William Sieghart, among others.
His early independent commissions for grandees such as Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, the son of Isabella d'Este, and the Giustiniani family may not have been the result of talent alone but came about through family connections.
Later in the movie, when Harry travels to the small town of San Paulo, where the rapes of Jennifer and her sister occurred, his disgust for the muck of its daily deceptions and benighted clannishness is reflected in his view of its casual smirking rapists circulating in plain sight and continuously protected by what passes in that town for grandees.
Through a broad scope of designing work, from camps for migrant farm workers to estate gardens for Hollywood grandees, Mr. Eckbo helped establish modernist landscapes as a norm in gardening.
This treatment is as true for Nick as for the cast of grandees and gargoyles among whom he moves.
For party grandees, sticking their heads in the sand left them unable to cope with the tempest whipping up dissent.
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For the grandees, having one's daughter named queen of one of the "krewes," or clubs, ranks among life's great milestones.
However, though it's derided as toothless and extravagant and as a retirement home for greedy grandees, the parliament nevertheless matters.
But he also pushed hard for the grandees to take it further and grant the vote to all men — something that wouldn't be achieved in Britain for another 270 years.
Beside it were two double-wide trailers: one tan, with dingy blue sofas — a waiting room for the grandees who charter their own helicopters — and the other black, its interior as glossy as a night club's, with a purple-lit cocktail bar.
