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  • The New York Film Festival, which has reigned prestigiously at Lincoln Center each September for nearly 50 years, typically aims to showcase brand-name auteurs, curated into an intensive, but manageable, two dozen or so titles.

    Sharpening Its Lens, Even as It Expands Steve Dollar 2011

  • More prestigiously, he played an army major in Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976).

    Kevin McCarthy obituary Brian Baxter 2010

  • Gulbenkian wrote a series of highly regarded articles on Russian oil, which appeared in a leading French magazine in 1889, and he turned the articles into a prestigiously published book in 1891—making himself a world oil expert by the time he was twenty-one.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • Gulbenkian wrote a series of highly regarded articles on Russian oil, which appeared in a leading French magazine in 1889, and he turned the articles into a prestigiously published book in 1891—making himself a world oil expert by the time he was twenty-one.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • My investment guy, a prestigiously-schooled, highly experienced professional, extensively researches Blue Chip companies, investing only in those that demonstrate the most solid -- as he calls them -- "fundamentals."

    Earl Pomerantz: The Clueless Investor 2008

  • To give you a completely different view of this prestigiously sought-after perfume, I will have to share with you a little story which my perfume friend Alden shared with me – simply because it put a big grin on my face in a much needed moment: I read so many wonderful reviews about Yerbamate.

    Yerbamate Ayala Sender 2007

  • To give you a completely different view of this prestigiously sought-after perfume, I will have to share with you a little story which my perfume friend Alden shared with me – simply because it put a big grin on my face in a much needed moment: I read so many wonderful reviews about Yerbamate.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ayala Sender 2007

  • It was odd seeing this lowest of educational awards prestigiously displayed the way doctors and lawyers presented their credentials.

    A Man Called Jesse Casper, K. N. 1998

  • He looked at me coldly with the knowing eyes of a rich, powerful, assured and physically bulky man who had inherited a good brain and a chunk of merchant bank, and trained racehorses prestigiously out of obsession.

    Penalty Francis, Dick 1997

  • A prime example is the general flaccidity of theorizing shown by the prestigiously erudite Académie des In - scriptions et Belles-Lettres.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968

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