Sentence examples for world's grande from inspiring English sources

Elevator pitch Art world's grande dame passes on the paintbrush.

Bunny Williams, who though only 67 is the decorating world's grande dame, noted that while business has steadied in the last year, "no one is taking it for granted," she said.

Five years later she was succeeded by another iconic female master, the fashion designer Jean Muir, and one always sensed a certain rivalry between the design world's two grandes dames.

In the clip, they drop steaming deuces onto dozens of flags from countries around the world, a scatalogical spectacle soundtracked by Frédéric Chopin's "Grande Valse Brillante".

New Caledonia has about one-quarter of the world's nickel resources, and much of Grande Terre's surface is scarred from excavation.

Movies and rock music glorified some of the world's great roads: Route 66, the Grande Corniche and the Pacific coast highway are part of our collective dreamscape.

Make sure to hit Cerro Blanco and Duna Grande, two of the world's biggest dunes, for the most gnarly sand-boarding.

Real estate's grande dame.

The grandes marques of the Marne made Champagne one of the world's leading luxury brands by marketing it as an urbane beverage for special occasions.

A Disney/Comcast combo, for instance, could herald a world in which Grande Fratello-style exclusive content becomes the norm.

Betty Schlein of Southampton, who purchased some art from the gallery from time to time, remembers that Mrs. Benson lived the role of art-world grande dame to the fullest.