The raw material would make a first-rate semi-scholarly work of non-fiction.
The truth is that it takes both a good score and a good book to make a first-rate musical.
But the gallery's illuminating catalog and stylish installation (dark-paneled rooms, heavy swag curtains) make a first-rate case for it.
He will tell you as soon as he gets the opportunity that he can walk into a kitchen and make a first-rate meal with anything that's there.
In Davenport, Mr. Kerry picked up an endorsement of his own: Tom Miller, the Iowa attorney general for 21 years, said the senator would make "a first-rate president" and would be the best candidate to take on President Bush over foreign policy and security.
Very slowly, as if he were in some perverse way proud of what had befallen him or of how stoically he'd endured it, he began to smile, and I couldn't help thinking that he'd make a first-rate soldier in whatever war we were prosecuting when he grew up.
It was clear that because of his late start Van Dantzig would never make a first-rate dancer, but there was a shortage of talented men at that time, and he was tall, good-looking, highly intelligent and prepared to work ferociously hard.
When an adviser to President Obama was quoted in The New Yorker as saying that the administration's policy in Libya was "leading from behind," he initiated a season of hand-wringing about American decline, as if he had announced that the president was implementing a secret plan to make a second-rate country even worse.
In June, China cut benchmark interest rates for the first time since 2008, and made a second rate cut last month.
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