Sentence examples for grandest large from inspiring English sources

Raonic quickly went up 3 0 in the second set, and looked to be on his way to his first grass-court trophy which, when you're playing at Queen's, happens to be one of pro tennis's grandest: large, silver, ancient-Greek-urn-evoking in that late-Victorian way.

Every single one of Benjamin's fastidiously achieved works has a rare and remarkable quality of not a note seeming out of place, whether it's on the smallest and most exposing scale of music for solo violin or solo piano, or the grandest canvas of large orchestra or ensemble.

Just across the Harlem River from the Polo Grounds, he erected the largest and grandest stadium in baseball.

Of the group, Bernard Tschumi had obtained the grandest commission, for a large-scale Paris park, La Villette; but even though he had been working on it for five years, completion was still far off.

The Delta Queen Steamboat Company has long operated some of the largest and grandest steam-powered paddlewheelers plying the Mississippi -- the 442-passenger American Queen, the 174-passenger Delta Queen and the 416-passenger Mississippi Queen. 416-passenger Mississippi Queen

You don't want to miss seeing Burghley, one of the largest and grandest houses of the first Elizabethan Age.

The leading voice of the U.S. Supreme Court's "liberal" bloc today is a Republican lawyer from Chicago whose family once owned the largest and grandest hotel along Michigan Avenue.

By the time it was dedicated, the Gothic Revival building was the "working seat of America's largest diocese and the grandest church in the Western Hemisphere," wrote Charles Morris, author of "American Catholic".

For a while, it was home to some of the world's grandest hotels (the Marlborough-Blenheim was the largest reinforced-concrete building in the world, and was later imploded in the music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Atlantic City"), as well as some of its more ardent iniquities and diversions.

The presbytery and the neighbouring Victorian Roman Catholic church were built over the ruins of one of the grandest abbeys of medieval England, Henry's royal foundation, whose church was larger than Durham Cathedral.

The development and realization of the sequence, featuring a large cast of extras and the music of Curtis Mayfield, is one of the grandest cinematic metaphors I've ever seen.