Sentence examples for it first rate from inspiring English sources
Publisher's Weekly has called it "first rate," and predicts that "The Emperor of Ocean Park," "which touches electrically on our sexual, racial and religious anxieties, will be the talk of the political in-crowd this summmer".
Ream's model received praise from several high profile individuals, most notably President Ulysses S. Grant, who called it "first rate".
Stephen Thomas Erlewine also criticized the song, calling it "second rate".
Not only is it first-rate material, but all the proceeds go to Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund.
Dr. Peterson praised the work of Dr. Casadevall, calling it "first-rate science," adding that "she has done a tremendous service by calling attention to this problem".
My father would have loved it — first-rate minds, first-rate food, enough Wasps to make him feel he'd crossed the river from Brooklyn, enough Jews to make him feel he was not an outsider looking in.
(To be said or sung at all Conservative dinners) I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate; When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rate On ev'ry mistress, pimp, and scamp, at ev'ry noble gate, In the fine old English Tory times; Soon may they come again!
The Billboard review was positive, calling it "a first rate jazz set" on which "Costa swings as ever on piano".
