And there's nothing second-rate about the academics.
Though Glasgow is sometimes referred to as Scotland's second city, there's nothing second-rate about it, especially not its red-hot art scene.
Nor is there anything second-rate about having a state comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, who also had to resign because of scandal, in his case because he misused state money.
People who know wines now disparage Parker for preferring "flavor bombs," big wines that are exploding with fruit and alcohol, and which showed up better in tastings — with the not very convincing implication that there is something second-rate about liking such blackberry-jam wines.
Yet what's so first-rate about Tiffany's production is that it's situated on the slipway between dream and daily life.
What's first-rate about this particular seduction is not the lyrics or the music or the choreography but Brooks's antic imagination and the atmosphere of audacious liberty with which he whips up both the audience and his collaborators.
There is something very tenth-rate about the illiberal, restrictive, humourless, narrow-minded, meddling, coercive, uneducated and punitive Home Office ever since David Blunkett, begetter of this rot, made it such a blight on the fabric of Britain.
Despite the slightly shabby shop and fitting rooms low overhead means less expensive suits!–there is nothing second-rate about the beautifully tailored suits, jackets and trousers that come out of Sam's five workrooms.
Additionally, children's participation will provide the Committee with first-hand – and first rate – information about how children are doing.
