Sentence examples for two grandees from inspiring English sources

This time it's two grandees of the literary world.

There may be something to this: Mr Tillis was endorsed by Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, two grandees of the party's moderate wing.

In the coastal Bolgheri region of southern Tuscany, for example, two grandees of Italian wine use the variety to make highly accomplished dry whites that offer a little more weight and complexity while still retaining that trademark zip.

Where do we go from here and how does the scrutiny committee define wrongdoing?" Cameron received a boost last night when two grandees, whose expenses were questioned this week, threw their weight behind the leader.

As late as the 1960s, two grandees in the Lombard Street office, a Barclay and a Bevan, decreed that fish be eaten with two forks, in the manner of East Anglian Quakers.

At first, you can't see what the fuss could have been as you watch these two grandees languidly exchanging playground taunts, both oozing suave patrician disdain and each as loftily self-satisfied as the other.

The same cannot be said of the literature prize, which frequently goes to authors who write in languages that few if any of the judges — eighteen grandees of the Swedish Academy — can read.

Before the showreel of the year's highlights, the three grandees present – Lords Hall and Patten, and Tim Davie, the head of Worldwide who was interim director general between George Entwistle and Hall – slipped into their seats.

These were the Amtrak trains available to the three grandees of Wall Street; Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs; John Mack, Chairman of Morgan Stanley; and Richard Parsons, Chairman of Citigroup, leaders of perhaps the most important Wall Street firms.

He described the "soundings" of five Tory grandees, four of whom, like Home and MacMillan were from Eton, as a stitch up by an Etonian 'magic circle.' The article received wide publicity convincing Anthony Howard, who later declared himself "deeply affronted...and never more affronted than when Alec Douglas-Home became leader of the Conservative Party".

One grandee was blunter: "If Osborne's judgement is right, we're OK and Labour is in trouble.