Sentence examples for select coterie from inspiring English sources

The contingent to whom he belongs is composed of a select coterie of fighters sharing a central command, which consists of two men.

Nielsen challenges the notion that political communication in America must be tightly scripted, controlled, and conducted by a select coterie of professionals.

We belong to the small, select coterie of Hollywood political gabbers: Dee Dee Myers, Pat Caddell, Marcia Clark, Susan Estrich, the beautiful actress... and me.

Edwards is among that select coterie of filmmakers- Woody Allen, Fellini, Bergman -- who use their own life crises as fodder for their films, suicides included.

Chilli is one of a select coterie of dishes we've really taken to our greedy hearts in this country, even going so far as to honour it with a full culinary makeover (see also spag bol, guacamole and green curry).

FOR years the designer Roberta Freymann was one of the Upper East Side's best-kept secrets, quietly purveying international resort wear to a select coterie that included the actresses Isabella Rossellini and Cecilia Peck; the socialites Jennifer Creel, Heather Mnuchin and Carolynn Rockefeller; and the photographer and Italian aristocrat Priscilla Rattazzi.

Which, in turn, means that a small coterie of global casting directors — the individuals responsible for selecting the Next Big Thing from modeling agency books and putting them on the runway before anyone else — are becoming more important.

These days, the prime minister takes decisions after seeking advice from a small coterie of individuals.

In dismissing the debate between New Formalists and Language poets as mere coterie poetics in his review of "A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems," by Mary Jo Salter (March 9), James Longenbach would have us believe that it was only a question of taste, a term he places in dismissive opposition to "the grand history of art".

Without fuss (he is engagingly modest, with none of the airs of some French grandees), he has joined that select coterie one thinks of Henry Kissinger and Lee Kuan Yew whose opinions carry weight long after they leave office.Doubtless part of the reason is simple nostalgia.

This coterie was known as the Inquiry.