To see that feeling rendered with such emotional eloquence by a team of first-rate artists is in itself a reason to hope.

"Why, if a first-rate artist prefers to remain in the German Democratic Republic and work for the reputation of his country and also enjoy his life here?"

In this way, first-rate peripatetic artists are consigned to the pantheon's banlieux rather than its 7th arrondissement.

The critic Mark Van Doren called him a "first-rate artist" who "knows innumerable truths that cannot be taught."

Suzanne Valadon (mother of Maurice Utrillo) remained a first-rate artist in her own right.

True, the group would bring first-rate artists to the county, but then so do many other presenting organizations.

Ms. Ratner put on concerts by first-rate artists in the living room of her Riverside Drive apartment.

It is not just the Art Nouveau designs, but the very idea of hiring first-rate artists to design the packaging.

For most of the first-rate artists in this show, landscape painting was a way of becoming part of nature and asking questions.

One value of the book is that it shows us what megalomania and paranoia look like when transcribed by a first-rate literary artist.