Sentence examples for grands of from inspiring English sources

Concert grands of recent decades have progressively tended towards the harsh and percussive – or so it seems to me while writing this today.

He thus short-changes Steinway's other facility in Hamburg, Germany, whose pianos many top musicians prefer — when they don't choose the magnificent grands of Bösendorfer, Bechstein and Fazioli.

That is particularly true of the delicate fortepiano; it is a tangy, colorful instrument but a real weakling next to the grands of today.

Sung to the tune of the "noël", "Où est-il, ce petit nouveau né?" Although ostensibly Christmas carols, "noëls" were traditionally produced at the end of the year to satirize ministers and other "grands" of Versailles.

Again it's hurry up and wait, as we stand for an hour, poring frantically over the guest list, which has just been released, researching on BlackBerries unfamiliar names, grasping for some sense of the choices made--more politicians than athletes and artists, no one from the Grands of American media (no Tom Brokaw, for example) although the presidents of Univision and Telemundo are there.

"To me this is the grandest of the grand.

The grandest of the actor knights in the grandest of Shakespeare's plays!

I will continue to seek out the grandest of restaurants and the grandest of dishes.

Liam, a hundred grand of your money and a hundred grand of my money.

The grandest of stages for the grand farewell.

Nusseibeh comes from one of the grandest of Palestinian families.