excellence

At a time when drama has come to depend on celebrity leads and commercial hype, this bounty of understated excellence is heartening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

And while those two provided almost all of the runs, England's excellence in the field was an all-round effort.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

People who have worked with Vahdat say that as a boss, he demands excellence and has a quiet competitive streak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Or is Juneteenth a celebration of the strength and excellence that both grew out of the great evil that slavery represented and in spite of it, an evil that still afflicts the nation in 2026?

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

For my final round of commencements as First Lady, I spoke at Jackson State University in Mississippi, another historically black school, using the opportunity to talk about striving for excellence.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

It is a film of excellences, never more so than in the performances by Robert De Niro and a remarkable supporting cast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

The days after VE Day were perfect for a tragic English opera with an English setting, and its musical excellences were supplemented by a sense of its national significance.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2013

That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room.

From Time Magazine Archive

Man with a Bull-Tongue Robert Plow, a collection of 703 sonnetesque verses, sings only homespun heroes, vaunts the excellences of Kentucky farmlife, mourns the mortality of Poet Stuart's love affairs and friends.

From Time Magazine Archive

The diction and rhythm of the poem are characterised by excellences of a quite different sort from those of his other pieces.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.