(n.) A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her behaviour with her European counterparts mirrored her treatment of the Tory grandees.
(2) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.
(3) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(4) You’re not the first person to be let down by Boris Johnson,” a Tory grandee once dryly remarked when I had to stand in for BoJo at some obscure seminar.
(5) I share with Jeremy the wish to see a world which is free of nuclear weapons, but I don’t believe for one second that if Britain were to give up its deterrent any other of the nuclear states would give theirs up,” he said “The truth is that we live in a differently dangerous world now and we need a continuous at-sea-deterrent, and we need to do it in the most cost effective way – that is the view the Labour party conference has taken for many years now.” Labour party grandees also made interventions on Sunday that could undermine Corbyn.
(6) Public criticism of Ed Miliband's leadership by senior Labour figures is creating an impression of "toxic disunity" and risks handing the next election to the Tories, according to party grandee Dame Tessa Jowell .
(7) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(8) If this is so, the lineup of grandees he manages to assemble to speak for his character is all the more impressive.
(9) Yet the upper classes are Tory grandees; never little Englanders.
(10) Ignatieff, who was cast by some party grandees as the great hope for an ailing party in search of a charismatic leader, became leader in 2009.
(11) As a final attempt to reconcile the rival camps, party grandee Alain Juppé was brought in to mediate.
(12) Shadow cabinet members are under pressure from Labour grandees to start spelling out their policies more clearly.
(13) As well as his immense experience in the political nuances of the Lords, Strathclyde was seen as an important link to the more traditional wing of the Tory party and its grandees.
(14) A plan to transform the organisation, produced by City grandee Lord Myners, echoed Sutherland's call to "modernise or die" and recommended a shakeup of the Co-op's structure.
(15) Lord Hurd , 70, the Tory party grandee and a second member of the honours committee, has declined to give evidence to the current hearings in line with Conservative party members who are boycotting the proceedings.
(16) Back at the bar of the Imperial hotel, he made himself busy introducing Tory's trousers to various Conservative party grandees, insisting they shake a proffered leg by way of greeting.
(17) John Hall Bristol It is hardly surprising that people such as Chris Patten have turned into apologists for the EU when they were shunted off to the Brussels gravy train - yet they still seem to think we want to hear their views (Grandees turn on Cameron over plans for EU, 30 May).
(18) The Conservative grandees were backed up by a retinue of more-or-less loyal historians.
(19) Brown wined and dined with Charles Kennedy and other party grandees, and used his private jet to fly Kennedy across the country during the election campaign.
(20) George W Bush spun a tale depicting himself as an average boy who grew up in an average family, when, as we know, he had all the privileges available to a son whose father was a Republican grandee and would-be president.
Magnifico
Definition:
(n.) A grandee or nobleman of Venice; -- so called in courtesy.
(n.) A rector of a German university.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pre-eminent among these high-minded, inter-marrying, multi-generational magnificos were the Macaulays, the Trevelyans, the Arnolds and perhaps most extraordinary of all, the Huxleys.
(2) Every single thing Ranieri has done all season has been magnifico .