In addition to a first-class eye, Croce has a first-class mind.
The critics concede that he has a first-class political mind, able to bring special understanding to the implications of polling and voting data.
It's a major work by a first-class literary mind and technician.
Nobody realized he had a first-class mind and everything else.
He has a first-class mind and a working-class devotion to the job at hand.
I have had occasion to review certain backup mathematics in connection with his work in the past, and regard him as a first-class mind.
His colleagues say he has a first-class mind, with an ego and energy to match it.
Deutch did not find many first-class minds in the ranks.
A first-class mind was lost to this city when you devoted your existence to your repellent philosophy.
Jolly fellow and with a first-class scientific mind behind those wide blue eyes.
