Sentence examples for great standards from inspiring English sources

The company has done great standards by Chekhov and Shakespeare, but also intriguing forgotten plays like Dorothy and DuBose Heyward's "Mamba's Daughters," which originally starred Ethel Waters.

And none have more great standards on popular music's all-time hit parade than "Babes in Arms" (1937), now in a new version at Goodspeed Opera in East Haddam.

The question of Coward's stature as a tunesmith is, in the end, a subjective one; it may be that the melodic subtlety of his songs, their harmonic twists and turns, makes them more perishable than the great standards of the American tradition.

Writers: Harold Arlen (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) When: 1946 Classic version: Another of the great standards, so let's step outside the comfort zone and turn to a version that reconfigures it from something tasteful, something for the background, into a song where the agony of obsessional love is place front and centre.

"I have the greatest respect for Dr. Chu, who upheld great standards of science during very difficult times in China.

That's why I had to do these great standards.

Great standard of play from both sides".

A great standard of rugby and nervous players".

In the end, the great standard-bearer of Greek civilization itself, Athens, collapsed.

Balmer casts Carter as the last great standard-bearer for an important strand of American Christianity.

When you have 25 or 30 games to a great standard the mistake is to change things after one error.