a grand old man in a sentence

As a grand old man of the thrill-happy genre, Scott gives this film a fine cast, a modicum of wit on the run and a reasonably human dimension.
A grand old man among children, Argentina's Independiente joins three smaller clubs in a battle this week for one of the final two berths in the Copa Libertadores.
And since he was a grand old man in his late 20s during his run as a teen idol, he was mature enough to carry the mantle with dignity.
One of the astonishments of his life was that, surrounded by flamboyance and bizarre behavior, he seemed to survive intact and eventually became a grand old man of Bloomsbury lore.
Maguire sensed that near-simultaneous nods from a grand old man of American letters and a group of TV game show writers meant that his quirky take on childhood classics might just have broad-based appeal.

It has all the makings of one of those New York stories, like Leonard Bernstein's own pinch-hitting debut as a conductor in 1943 ( though he was already a grand old man of 25 ).
The Beats resurfaced as grand old men of the hippie movement in the'60s, and William S . Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg have gone on to be eulogized as two of the major writers of this century.
His most notable works of that period are " The Song of the Prophet Oleg " based on Alexander Pushkin's poem and " Departure of a Grand Old Man " about the last days of Leo Tolstoy.
In " J . L . G . by J . L . G . " he is a grand old man of cinema and full-blown eccentric ruminating in a style that is as flighty as it is still vital.
A grand old man : Everett Nevin, a California racing fixture who was still serving as director of racing at Ferndale this summer at age 92, died Thursday in Napa, Calif . He'd suffered a stroke a few days earlier.

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