Sentences with phrase «as grande dames»

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Famous as the site of the 1972 break - in that led to President Nixon's fall, the complex is a grande dame of Washington real estate that has counted senators, top administration officials and a Supreme Court justice as residents over the years.

Julia Child is the grande dame of French cooking in North America, her books are a fantastic resource for well - trained cooks as well as...

And that grande dame of the American cinema, Meryl Streep, makes the most of her cameo as a preacher's wife whose kindliness is beyond practiced.

Beginning with the grand re-opening of the recently restored Alfonso XIII Hotel in Seville, Spain which re-opened on March 13th, The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts will unveil a series of large - scale restoration projects including the multi-million Euro renovation of Hotel Maria Cristina, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Spain and Prince De Galles, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Paris, as well as the $ 55 million Euro restoration of the «grande dame» of Italy, Hotel Gritti Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Venice.

Have one meal at one of the grande dames like Voyager or Leeuwin Estate, then another meal at one of the boutique wineries such as Amelia Park — that way you see the full range of winemaking operations in the area.

Recognized as a «legendary dealer, the grande dame of the avant - garde» (The New York Times, May 11, 2003), Virginia Dwan (b. October 18, 1931) is an American collector, art patron, philanthropist, and former owner and executive director of Dwan Gallery Los Angeles (1959 — 1967) and Dwan Gallery New York (1965 — 1971).

In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.

(Nevelson with her elaborate wood sculpture remained through the many decades of obscurity for Bontecou and De Feo the turbaned grande dame - magus among the New York boys» club, her dark eyelids and brows as dramatic as her large - scale work.)

Hauser & Wirth features another art world grande dame, Louise Bourgeois, whose work is at the center of the gallery's thematic presentation, which spotlights the spider, an insect that's viewed as a positive omen in Chinese culture.

Furthermore, roughly one quarter of the participants are above the age of 60, and a number of those, including Hanne Darboven (61) and On Kawara (69) are seasoned Documenta veterans — as is the show's reigning grande dame, Louise Bourgeois, who celebrates her 91st birthday this year.

In the large - scale colour portraits, the artist imagines herself as a cast of «grandes dames» from the Golden Age of 1920s Hollywood cinema.

Chambers HNW 2017 described her as «one of the grande dames of the future.

One of Paris's original grandes dames, it first opened as the Hotel Majestic in 1908 and played host to high society for several decades (including Stravinsky, Proust, Joyce and Picasso) before falling into government hands during the Second World War.