The prairie is clearly a grander sort of scale, but the first book really seems to succeed as a book for children.
He reflects on that life with somber perplexity, writing that his father commuted daily to London — a place Fowles would come to associate with "physical exhaustion and nervous anxiety" — and "hankered after a grander sort of life than life allowed".
Thereafter, it suited his colleagues and successors to airbrush his role out of the party's history – a job they performed so successfully that the sole public re minder of what had once been his national fame became his occasional and increasingly frail appearances at the grander sort of London memorial service.
At American companies that have trade union representation, half must be from the workforce; most of these people are not investment experts, any more than some of the grander sorts of trustees.
Attenborough's is a rather grand sort of modesty, heartfelt but extravagant.
The $100,000 trailer, given by a Texas company, is one of the grander sort ("triple-wide"), poses few problems for the security people, and, best of all, can be placed close to the mansion.
His performance is impressive, in a grand guignol sort of way, but, like everyone else's, it is a very distant cousin to real apes.
At the closing down sale of a nearby boys' boarding school – nothing grand, the sort of job lot of iron bedsteads, fingered Latin grammars and cheap drugget carpet that you found everywhere – John Snare thought he saw something extraordinary.
Consistently voted by Harden's and Zagat as one of the top three Italians in London, Quirinale is smart without being grand, the sort of place where you can pop in at lunch time for a plate of pasta and a glass of prosecco, or celebrate your birthday in the evening with a five-course tasting menu accompanied by a flight of wines.
Milo was a five-time Periodonikēs, a "grand slam" sort of title bestowed on the winner of all four festivals in the same cycle.
This was a grand slam sort of session, featuring heavy weight speakers including President Obama, Michelle Obama (who spoke compellingly about the opportunity to better harness the amazing human potential of our veterans and their families) and Bill Gates along with a high profile set of celebs including Barbra Streisand, Mick Jagger and Geena Davis.
