Sentences with phrase «as grand»

As well as the Grand Cherokee crawled through the dirt, I was also aware that this model had Jeep's high - end offroad gear.

The other thing that remains puzzling is that BMW deliberately designed the i8 as a grand tourer rather than an outright supercar, imbuing it with both a rear trunk (uncommon amongst «supercars» with rear, mid-engined layouts) and 2 + 2 seating.

And in what amounted to the most surprising (and potentially entertaining entry, Gordon Ting re-cast the eco-friendly Prius as a Grand Touring racecar, and a car that frankly we'd consider driving.

Unlike previous projects, the scale of touches is not as grand as we came accustomed with, the V18 C - Class Estate being characterized by subtlety.

Pricing reflects this, as the Grand Caravan is value priced from low $ 20,000 to mid - $ 30,000, while the Pacifica basically starts at around $ 30,000 and can reach almost $ 50,000!

Away from the dynamic ability of the new Panamera Sport Turismo and looking deeper into its ability as a grand tourer and there are few that can touch it for opulence, comfort and a sense of occasion.

Second, it signals the company's renewed determination to build serious sports cars as well as grand - touring machines such as the Coupe and the Quattroporte.

Which is why we ended our brewery tour at Hopcat, a bar with forty - eight taps, including beer from each of our stops (save Right Brain, which hasn't made it as far south as Grand Rapids).

As a grand finale, we drove it across the country to give it back to Mazda.

During a five - year production life (it wound down in 2009, with the 16M Spider version of the Scuderia as the grand finale), around ten per cent of F430s were manuals.

Now those new Alfa Romeos are on delay to allow FCA, which posted just $ 410 million in earnings for fiscal year 2015, a 40 percent drop from 2014, can concentrate on sure - fire moneymakers such as the Grand Wagoneer.

Raced by a French hero, gifted to a car - mad Belgian royal and now preserved in remarkably original condition, the Bugatti known as Grand - Mère is one of the greatest...

It also clearly defines it as a grand tourer, owning up to the fact that sub-LFAs are not really that sharp.

Looking to challenge other big luxury coupes like the Mercedes - Benz S - Class Coupe and the new Lexus LC 500, the BMW 8 Series will be as a grand tourer slotting above the 6 Series coupe and convertible.

Raced by a French hero, gifted to a car - mad Belgian royal and now preserved in remarkably original condition, the Bugatti known as Grand - Mère is one of the greatest sports cars from Molsheim.

Includes models such as Grand National, Riviera, Gran Sport, Regal, Enclave, LaCrosse, and others.

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The untold story of DeVos's stint as a Grand Rapids elementary school tutor.

Student representation at the boardroom table will grow from two to three in 2018 - 19 as Grand Erie District School Board welcomes its first Indigenous Student Trustee following the selection of all Student Trustee positions at last month's Student Senate meeting.

Roof combs were used as grand billboards for the display of religious and political imagery.

The school day must be rigidly organized, generally chopped up into 45 - minute or one - hour blocks (changing this to longer periods of time was, some years back, viewed as a grand breakthrough).

$ 100,000 will be awarded as a grand prize, with smaller prizes ranging from $ 200 to $ 10,000.

In 2006, Ali, long known for his outspoken views on white racism and his much publicized Muslim faith, served as grand marshal of the Kentucky Derby Festival's Pegasus Parade, and received a hero's reception.

Eva Marie Saint, at 93, as grand a presence as she was when she won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in 1954's «On the Waterfront.»

While not as grand or epic, the to and fro between teams is exciting.

Recently, Furious 7 used CGI to add Paul Walker to a handful of scenes following his death during the filmmaking process, while the new Star Wars stand - alone, Rogue One, also used the technique to resurrect the late actor Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin.

This Christmas a venerable Seattle tradition continues as the Grand Illusion plays, on 35 millimeter film and for the next three weeks, Frank Capra's greatest film, the grim, bleak, heart - warming holiday classic from 1946.

Sure, it seems slight when held to the standards of a tradition as grand as that of Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Also joining this impressive cast are the incomparable Cate Blanchett, who revels in her portrayal of Cinders» villainous step - mother Lady Tremaine, Helena Bonham Carter as the Fairy Godmother, Stellan Skarsgaard as the Grand Duke and Derek Jacobi as The King.

He served as grand marshal the Battle of Flowers Parade in 2013.

The film tells an emotional story as grand as «It's A Wonderful Life» but on the scale of a micro-budget indie.

The recreation of New York may not be as visually complex as Grand Theft Auto IV, but it is more than an adequate representation of the famous city.

In La terra trema, the characters may be poor Sicilian fishermen played by poor Sicilian fishermen, but their situation is explored on a stage as grand as that of any Greek tragedy.

«You have to get yourself ready for that,» said Spade, who served as grand marshal for the Coke Zero 400.

Of these five, nothing jumps out as grand in scale or as representing a technological advance.

-- could be more easily defended as Grand Guignol.

A revamped single - player mode acts as a grand tutorial.

It properly identifies a certain period in adolescence as grand drama and surreal dreamscape — when everything takes on magnified import both romantic and Romanticist — and paints that world in rich, velvet strokes.

Prizes are going to be awarded to the top 100 players at the end of this weekend with 50,000 V - Bucks (Fortnite «s dedicated currency) as the grand prize.

All we know for now is the game's title and the fact that it will have an online multiplayer component aptly titled Red Dead Online, meaning it could take a similar approach as Grand Theft Auto V's Grand Theft Auto Online component.

Real castle or no, what's here is just as grand and alive as the real thing.

It's as if he felt he owed his fans a spectacle as grand and improbable as his fame.

But, honestly, that's all handled much better here than it has been previously in other pictures (including Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain America: The Winter Soldier), and as far as my chief complaints go they feel relatively minor as far as the grand scheme is concerned.

There were a few gentle sci - fi films about memory at this year's Sundance, but Marjorie Prime is the most effective, not least because it's as much a small story about family and loss as it a grand discourse on human recollection.

LaFontaine, who has now left us, left a hole in the movie industry as grand and deep as his legendary baritone rumble.

In addition, we had William Friedkin come on the closing night as our guest of honor and, after many weeks of effort, we were able to finally secure a 35 mm print of «Sorcerer,» his stunning 1977 reworking of «The Wages of Fear» that had the misfortune to go over-schedule and over-budget and open a week after «Star Wars,» as the grand finale.

There is, of course, the Mass Effect 3 demo, as well as Grand Theft Auto IV available for a full game.

It's tempting to call this structure a series of nesting dolls, given the Eastern European suggestions of the settings and title, but doing so is as adorably twee and empty as The Grand Budapest Hotel itself.

As its Grand Guignol and penny dreadfulness unfold in the dockyards, back alleys, gin houses and opium dens of a corrupted capital baying for blood (and that enjoys a good show), the film's commitment to anatomising a marginalised demimonde oppressed either for its class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality might almost earn it the label of Marxist.