Sentences with phrase «grand old man»

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

Sports used to abound with grand old men who grew with their games: Mister Mack, Colonel Matt, Amos Alonzo Stagg.

It has been 10 seasons now since Papa Bear stopped coaching, but he is the only grand old man left at his desk, working every day and half a day Saturday.

Courtesy of graphic adventure grand old man Ron Gilbert, it provides a really impressive time trip back to the late 80's and early 90's when wild adventures by LucasArts and Sierra pretty much defined the gaming childhood of us old farts.

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

As one grand old man of Danish publishing had told Homer, «We come to Frankfurt every year to see if we're still alive.»

In October 2001, I had an engaging, two - hour conversation with Cardinal Karl Lehmann, now one of the grand old men of the German hierarchy.

David Orr, in a recent Sunday book review in the New York Times, has aptly enough called him «the Grand Old Man of....

This grand old man became almost a legend in India as he founded new fields and also built up the work started by earlier German Lutherans.

(Well, maybe the world's grand old man.)

But he lived on nobly, a wise and benevolent presence, New Zealand's grand old man.

Let's remember that our current crop of women MPs are younger than their male counterparts - after the next election there will no female equivalents of the grand old men of the backbenches (Clarke, Tapsell, Hogg, Young, Winterton, Spicer, Shepherd, etc.) except for Ann Winterton.

He was the youngest person ever awarded a titular professorship of zoology at Oxford, and at 38 he is still half the age of the grand old men who dominate paleontology.

I took a picture of this grand old man of contemporary Russian physics against the backdrop of his beloved lake, then started walking back to the shore station.

This woman who contends that females are often polyandrous has herself been a constant mate since 1970, when she fell in love with Daniel Hrdy in Anthropology 101, a Harvard class taught by the grand old man of physical anthropology, William Howell.

«The Grand Old Man of Westerns,» as film historian William K. Everson called him, retired in the early»40s after more than three decades of yeoman work opposite every cowboy hero on the Hollywood range, from Franklyn Farnum to Gary Cooper.

Our judges have compiled an eclectic list that ranges from trendsetting teenagers to grand old men and everything in between.

The grand old man suffered but at least the reference was to a material condition.

Lyondell was an idea that I grabbed from that grand old man, John Neff.

The Grand Old Men who have run these firms for decades are now looking at passing along their ownership stakes and management responsibilities to a younger generation.

At 64, he isn't yet old enough to a be a grand old man, but he is no longer young enough to be regarded as a young turk.

«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-...]

But to see Howard Hodgkin, grand old man of sensuous painters, reach into the deep blue to create a dreamlike metamorphosis of athlete and water, the diver and the pool, is beautiful.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

He's one of the «grand old men» of climate research, a hero and mentor to thousands of students and practicing meteorologists.

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.