Words similar to first-rate

Example sentences for: first-rate

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It was Giorgio Vasari, facile artist but first-rate chronicler of this cultural explosion, who allegedly dubbed it a rinascita, or rebirth, of the glories of Italy’s Greco-Roman past.
There are first-rate Egyptian galleries with mummies and early sculptures, and Nubian statues and stelae.
It is amazing that Gates has done this volume so successfully and so quickly, that he has flooded the market with first-rate black reference books in such short order.
There are lots of first-rate artists in "Sensation," and I can't think of any other recent show that captures so forcefully the particular feeling of being alive in the '90s, which sometimes means feeling like you're dead (I loved Ron Mueck's Dead Dad ).
The availability of many excellent translations today affords readers a chance to see how a variety of first-rate translators read and interpret ancient texts.