Sentences with phrase «grand old»

I love those old Merchant / Ivory movies in the grand old houses in England of yesteryear where they display row upon row of gleaming copper saucepans and butler's pantries filled to the brim with every type of plate, cup, saucer, bowl and crystal stemware one could imagine.

It is a grand old home but it could use some work.

What the grand old system of churning out dues paying, commission seeking «licensed» real estate sales people amounts to is the equivalent of a sixteen - year - old passing a written test to acquire a driver's license, without the benefit of actually learning how to drive a vehicle safely and responsibly, because he / she has never been behind the wheel when the motor was actually running, and then being allowed to hop right into a 750 horsepower, 300 kilometer per hour race car, immediately being encouraged to hit the track (no practice laps) pedal to the metal, racing for the glory, the crown, and the prize money, along with the mostly other hacks who are clogging up the track.

It will have a drawing of the grand old Queen Victoria.

Although only 70 percent occupied at that time, the building offered proximity to such popular destinations as The Grand Old Opry, Vanderbilt University, the new 1.2 million SF Music City convention center, and two large medical centers.

About 100 of the grand old market halls that once dominated the urban foodscape have been preserved and restored.

But that was back when the Grand Old Party stood for something besides sticking it to Democrats and the poor.

Our Sacramento Office is located at 2011 P St. Sacramento CA in a grand old building in the heart of mid-town.

Possibly — but whether you live in a grand old home on North Main Street or dwell out in the boonies, your Oshkosh insurance rates will depend in large part on personal factors.

Now, she writes, «I may not be drunk yet, but I'm sure having a grand old time.»

Lexis took over the ground floor bar at Toronto's Trump Hotel and flew in from the sunny California campus of Pepperdine University, the grand old man of Canadian tort law, Allen Martin Linden.

Two grand old lions of the screen, Spencer Tracy and Frederic March, play two grand old lions of the law, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, as they grapple in the historic 1925 Scopes «monkey trial» in backwoods Dayton, Tenn..

The one - day conference takes place in Winnipeg at the grand old Fort Garry Hotel on Friday, November 3.

The suppression of many or most the grand old legal publishing brands of our youth seems to be an inevitability.

Virginia and I would have been grand old friends, with that kind of attitude.

First, why is it called extremism when you try to «intimidate» companies into making policy decisions you prefer, when that intimidation is done through protest, campaigning and civil disobedience, when the grand old tradition of political lobbying and corporate campaign contributions essential does the same thing?

As a native New Yorker (long ago decamped for the Midwest) thanks for taking care of the Grand Old Girl, she stands for Energy Independence now too!!

In the grand old tradition of spring cleaning, we've rounded up some of our top tips for green cleaning — without toxic chemicals.

Dr. «Wally» Broecker is no fan of large bureaucracies, which is why, though he is a «grand old man» of contemporary climate science, he has never participated in the International Panel on Climate Change.

Or greenland were we all know that you can farm and live and have grand old time, oh wait that was 500 years ago.

The agitation has ranged from dissent over whether it should call for a ban on all logging on public lands to talk of resignation from its board by David Brower, the grand old statesman of the environmental movement.

Born in 1924 in the ancient Persian city of Qazvin, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian spent her childhood in a grand old house replete with stained glass, wall paintings and nightingales.

When he died in 1961 he was described in The New York Times as «the grand old man of British painting and one of the greatest in British history.»

As testified by the international range of tributes to him which quickly appeared in the press following the announcement of his death last week, he was the grand old man of modern British art, successor only to Henry Moore — the artist who famously took sculpture off the plinth and changed the direction of modern art.

The grand old colonial house in these images has belonged to Leonce's family for generations.

For that reason they won't be reduced to period representatives, the Grand Old Master versus the Good Old Modernist.

If anyone deserves the title of Grand Old Man of British art, it is Richard Hamilton.

Tapley notes that the five painters in the show, Robert Anderson, Daniel O'Connor, Tim Parsley, Emil Robinson and Tina Tammaro, have each committed to «a curiously old - fashioned choice: to keep making pictures by hand, using simple drawing materials, and a grand old medium, oil paint... these painters [also] devote themselves, at least in part, to another old practice: working from «life.»

Richter sounds like the grand old man of art looking down from his pinnacle of achievements and experiences upon the struggling, rebellious young bucks down below: «Richter discreetly nodded to the rising generation in the process of brushing aside the aesthetic wisdom of Minimal, conceptual and other «progresive» post-modernisms.

This illuminating documentary portrait details the undimmed curiosity and enthusiasm of the grand old man of British painting

In recent years, David Hockney has become the grand old man of British painting, with a giant touring exhibition, A Bigger Picture, in 2012 and a high profile 2014 documentary called, yes, Hockney.

The grand old man of British sculpture died at the age of 89 on Wednesday.

The baying hacks surrounded the affable NPG Director Sandy Nairne, as he introduced the press preview of «Lucian Freud Portraits, describing it as «A living exhibition planned with the artist», which came from a 2006 conversation with Freud followed by several years of planning, and not a memorial show to Freud who passed away last year at the grand old age of 88.

A Good Old Modernist meets a Grand Old Master.

People grew to distrust grand old men and Minimalist geometry, and the Whitney is more than eager to look elsewhere.

These Nanas — rotund, ebullient, hungry girls dressed in bold primary colors — twirl on tippy toes and look like they're having a grand old time.

«Ib Geertsen is the grand old man of Danish abstraction, but was little known in the UK until he was championed by London's Rocket Gallery in a recent group -LSB-...]

Is he softening up, or is his attack on fine art extending from the grand old color - field painters to Keith Haring's followers — and even the subtle pleasures of Stephen Westfall's geometric painting today?

«I look at Cleveland as this grand old palace with [a] previous dynamic that may not be there in that fashion, but has the potential [to] re-shape itself,» Odita said.

The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong is known to locals as The Pen, or to worldy travellers under the more affectionate moniker; the Grand Old Dame of the Far East.

Annely Juda Fine Art presents «Anthony Caro — The Last Sculptures», the final series of works created by Sir Anthony Caro in the two years before his death in 2013, at the grand old age of 89, having practised his art consistently into his late 80s.

The grand old first person shooter arrives confidently on Nintendo Switch, with the hyper violence, lightning fast combat, and awesome heavy metal soundtrack from the well - received PC, PS4 and Xbox One title firmly in tact.

Handheld gaming has been a core pillar of the industry for decades, a grand old nerdy tradition which harks back to the grainy greatness of the Sega Game Gear and incredible addictiveness of Pokemon Blue / Red on Game Boy.

It looks like a grand old fun time, with a gentle commentary of today's political climate.

So join us tonight for a grand old time will you?

Well, I've got a review copy, so I feel qualified to say: You can absolutely play it on a regular Nintendo 3DS and have a grand old time.

With the Nintendo Switch tantalisingly hinting at a return to form for the grand old Japanese icon, Sony's all - conquering PS4 and the challenger for the throne, the Xbox One, finally have some meaningful competition.

Even at the grand old age of 22, I still love Pokemon.

The idea of the game sounds like it'd be a grand old time: as a young boy on the planet Gamearth, Rise is caught in the middle of a war between his peaceful people and the Gears of War - style Grunts who love nothing more than extreme violence and incredible structural damage.

Though, in actual fact, it's probably more accurate to refer to it as the Tale of Many Bastards, since No Pest Productions retro - steeped brawler does a grand old job of throwing one hard bastard after another at you with the sort of regularity that makes you question what kind of person you were in a previous life.