Nor are grand over-arching sentences, sweeping panoramas, troubled aristocrats and less than holy colonial victims.
While watching Daniel Aukin's staging of Shepard's new play, "Heartless" (at the Signature Theatre Company), I struggled not to compare his stripped-down approach with Hawke's grand over-all vision.
He'll spend a hundred grand over by the bar.
"Right then and I felt very grand over it all.
Limited cornering clearance is an expected downside of riding a huge motorcycle — you can only lean something this grand over so far before metal meets macadam.
Ted Mason, director of new car sales at Mercedes-Benz of Beverly Hills, said, 'We're getting sticker, and sometimes two or three grand over sticker" price for the vehicles.
Having seen the property of my dreams disappear for a mere 10 grand over my limit, I will soon start listening a little more closely to that bad angel.
That means you'll lock in the price rather than wait to get the bad news that, oh, by the way, the dealer wants four grand over sticker when you get delivery in August (when the car hits the streets).
Now, the only way we're getting anything sort of resembling the free phones Schmidt promised is by giving Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile roughly two grand over the next couple of years.
Unfortunately, such grand and over-simplified claims about the role of press freedom in development are common in public discourse.
