(1) I knew Bernardine for more than 25 years, and the purity of her thought and the precision of her phrase-making, whether in conversation or in writing, were matchless.
(2) Dobbs writes that "the relentlessly upbeat tone was established by the court historian, Arthur M Schlesinger Jr, who wrote that Kennedy had 'dazzled the world' through a 'combination of toughness and restraint, of will, nerve and wisdom, so brilliantly controlled, so matchlessly calibrated'."
(3) The jury is still out on BBC3 and BBC4, as well as on BBC World, while the digitising of the corporation's matchless archive has faltered.
(4) Bates was an infinitely versatile actor at home in all media; but what one will remember, especially in modern drama, is his matchless ability to suggest a quicksilver intelligence imbued with mischievous irony.
(5) The matchless lineup included Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper , Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt and Gary Oldman.
(6) Listening to the voluptuous precision with which he articulated his dream of feasting "on the swelling, unctuous paps of a fat, pregnant sow", it was good to be reminded of the matchless clarity of the Richardson voice which remains one of the great treasures of my theatre-going lifetime.
(7) His matchless magnificence, the self-proclaimed “greatness”, was invented early as a cheery prizefighter’s publicity stunt.
(8) The documentation of the vascular lymphatic system culminates in the matchless work "Vasorum Lymphaticorum Corporis Humani..." by Paolo Mascagni (1755-1815) which Susini (1773-1814) immortalized in ceroplastic statues.
(9) Even at that matchless speed a journey to the nearest star would take thousands of years.
(10) In his next tweet Fry said he thought Chahidi – currently playing the Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger as well as the former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind in Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse – should win the category "for his matchless Maria."
(11) Especially the last yields three-dimensional casts which are matchless in elegance and definition of the relationship between lymphatic and blood vessels; 3) three-dimensional models from serial ultrathin sections, which represent a fundamental tool in order to go through the processes of transendothelial transport; 4) in vivo cinematography documents the lymph pulsed flow, the contractile activity of superficial lymphatic collectors and the play of their valves.
(12) "A moment for English cricket fans to do what they do with such matchless wit and poise - lose really badly.
(13) Surrounded by glass panels and comfortable limestone walls, they are missing the best view of the museum, which is from the far side of the river, a Styx with a matchless prospect and the promise of a return trip.
Nonpareil
Definition:
(a.) Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch; -- often used as a name.
(a.) A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
(a.) A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris), native of the Southern United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted finch.
(a.) Any other similar bird of the same genus.
(a.) Having no equal; peerless.
Example Sentences:
(1) After meeting him, I don't feel I'm any closer to understanding how anything in Brian Wilson's world works or worked – not the astonishing, nonpareil burst of 60s creativity, not his latterday renaissance – but I can't think of anything else to ask, or at least I can't think of anything that won't just elicit a yes or a no.
(2) After Ali’s final fight, Hugh McIlvanney, the nonpareil of boxing correspondents, described him as “the king who went out on a dustcart”.
(4) For another, I’m a journalist, and thus aware that among Prince’s panoply of talents lies a nonpareil ability to screw with journalists.
(5) He was a nonpareil orchestrator of outrage during their early career, but proved incapable of dealing with its consequences.
(6) (“Among Prince’s panoply of talents lies a nonpareil ability to screw with journalists,” Petridis wrote at the time.)
(7) Immediate-release granules (IRGs) were prepared by coating particles of Nonpareil 103 with bermoprofen.
(8) Commercially available lattices are often used to coat nonpareils or beads.
(9) Sentimentalists are already building barricades against the notion that Klose, an unspectacular penalty-box finisher, could leave South Africa as the nonpareil of strikers.