How To Use Showpiece In A Sentence
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An impressive showpiece . -- Booklist, starred review.
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DiDonato took a broader and more dramatic perspective in two Rossini numbers, Desdemona's haunting "Willow Song" from "Otello" and a dazzlingly virtuosic encore of "Tanti affetti," the final showpiece from "La Donna del Lago.
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After seeing their showpiece team jeered by sections of Wembley during the Hungary game.
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On Tuesday the 24-year-old pianist and singer is set to perform a showpiece duet with highly regarded folk singer Katie Melua at the Brit's ceremony at London's Earl's Court.
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It is hoped the overhaul will make the museum a showpiece regional attraction which will bring thousands more visitors to the area.
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The showpiece is the glass staircase that leads to the first floor.
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It will be fantastic for the young kids in Keighley to see a local boy playing in rugby league's showpiece.
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The figures of Lord Ganesha made of plastic in the showpiece section look attractive with its colour and design.
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Renowned for attracting top acts to the showpiece event, this year they have excelled themselves by signing up current chart-toppers Hear'say.
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The first National Eisteddfod, held in 1861 at Aberdare, proved to be a showpiece for literary and musical talent.
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The factory was to be a showpiece of Western investment in the East.
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The showpiece will be a collection of about 10,000 personal papers that belonged to Dr. King, which were purchased with a $32 million loan backed by some of Atlanta's biggest philanthropists and corporations.
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The Government was today trying to fend off a torrent of criticism following the latest bail-out for the cash-strapped showpiece attraction.
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The Bartók is a showpiece for the Concertbebouw Orchestra.
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Certainly Lieberson has written a virtuosic orchestral showpiece with some lovely, moving moments of repose.
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An ambitious programme of events will include a showpiece £5m international arts festival, tipped to rival Edinburgh's in scope and quality.
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Once the pride of India and a great showpiece to the world, Indian Railways has steadily gone downhill.
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The showpiece is the glass staircase that leads to the first floor.
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In between, there are virtuoso showpieces, hilarious buffo send-ups, and elegiac romances, all enhanced by imaginative instrumental accompaniments.
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Hand-thrown cachepots and the arrangement's showpiece, a square wreath, also carry out the pear-green scheme.
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Grieg's piano music can be showy, but it never is gratuitously so; while it can be a showpiece for the performer, the music usually has other priorities.
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The showpiece is a complex natural cooling plan that will bring the temperature down dramatically, for example from about 45 degrees Celsius outdoors to about 25 degrees indoors, according to Mr. Schuler, who is working on the project.
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Somewhere in backwoods Georgia we visited a monastery, a showpiece of religious tolerance.
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So it is Spain for me - hopefully in a showpiece final which will be a celebration of all that is good about the game.
The Sun
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Early Victorian taste favoured opulence and eclecticism, so exhibition showpieces coexisted with simpler, compact items like Windsor chairs.
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Which made yesterday's showpiece match a bit of an audition.
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The showpiece event takes place the next week on 2 July at Lord's.
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Wembley seems a showpiece stadium with an open pitch and it is not quite the same.
The Sun
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The aim of the Scottish anatomist in this showpiece dissection was to prove once and for all that only the lymphatic vessels - in this case, those known as the lacteals in the intestines - and not the veins were capable of absorbing fats.
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For the Act II showpiece, she is thrust forward over the orchestra pit on a plank jutting from the stage.
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In contrast with the Unilever sponsored showpiece exhibit was an impromptu display by Banksy, an agit-prop and graffiti artist.
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Pride at this Highland showpiece event was tangible in the faces of directors and supporters alike before the game.
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They will now face Australia in tomorrow's showpiece final.
The Sun
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The new stadium is a showpiece for the Greeks.
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It's quite a showpiece in the centre and illustrates to children what nature can do.
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And the Derby boss will revisit the nation's showpiece stadium with a real swagger this time.
The Sun
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He knew these to be just decorative showpieces and feared them not.
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The building is a showpiece of elegant design.
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He emphasises that it is not just Normandy veterans who are invited to be at the showpiece event but men and women who served in any capacity in the services during the Second World War.
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The deft fiddling of a bright new member, Eleanor Bartsch, partnered the fruity bassooning of Cynthia Cameron Fix, with gambist Duncan Pledger and Yount in the continuo roles for two contrapuntal ensemble showpieces by Tarquinio Marula.
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Famous for such musical showpieces as the Soldier's Chorus and the sparkling Jewel Song, its Romantic indulgence in magic and menace, sex and religion still have a compelling charm.
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The ‘Giuoco della coppie’ is a mellow showpiece for the excellent London winds.
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Siegfried's Rhine Journey, which leads into Act 1, is more than an orchestral showpiece: it is an important transition between worlds.
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During the past 15 years, he has converted several thousands of logs into such pieces of art that become fascinating showpieces at houses or institutions.
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Gifts, decorations, collectibles, showpieces and pieces of art from across the globe are spread out.
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The locals had hoped for glitter and glamour to show off their 250 million sporting showpiece and they got rain.
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Much is made of champions who struggle to win the showpiece races.
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Whether that is what a showpiece final should be about is questionable.
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It was a suitably surreal showpiece for a night that confounded all expectations.
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Ambitious plans to turn a South Yorkshire museum into a showpiece regional attraction are finally about to come to fruition following a £2m Lottery grant.
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By emphasizing the bass line near strategic cadences, he transformed the usual showpiece into real music.
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After seeing their showpiece team jeered by sections of Wembley during the Hungary game.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Ascot authorities insist it was a one-off, a special extension of Flat Racing's showpiece to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee.
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With just 12 weeks to go until the Oscars, the Los Angeles Film Critics' Association awards mark the start of the countdown to the showpiece event.
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I don't remember what all cars they had from the movie but the showpiece was the Jeep by the character played by Tom Cruise.
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The carved chestnut central staircase is a showpiece, and the mahogany paneling gleams in the spacious living room and dining room.
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‘Song of the Flea’ is a showpiece for the basso's humor and dramatic exaggeration.
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On show at the festival are leather goods, clay statuettes, wooden showpieces, handloom garments, jute bags, paper articles, metal crafts and so on.
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His kitchen is a showpiece of streamlined functionality.
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Silvia parries Keller's systematic professional suspicion with disarming dignity and their scenes of confrontation are an elegant showpiece of good writing brought alive by even better acting.
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When Nicholas returned to Parkhead to play his home debut in a showpiece friendly against Everton he was greeted with rapturous applause.
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This year they turned to Bellini, staging Norma, generally regarded as one of the composer's finest bel canto masterpieces, and not so long ago a showpiece for Maria Callas.
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After seeing their showpiece team jeered by sections of Wembley during the Hungary game.
Times, Sunday Times
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This time the result is an orchestral showpiece of irresistible effervescence.
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This is a terrific showpiece for the pianist who loves to explore exotic sounds, experiment with subtle shadings and pedaling, and create a stylized tableau with careful articulation and voicing control.
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The showpiece is the glass staircase that leads to the first floor.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 8pm concert ends with a virtuoso showpiece for clarinet and piano, Weber's Grand Duo Concertante in E flat.
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John has announced his resignation after a showpiece event ran up losses of millions of dollars.
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He built the casino as the showpiece of his business empire.
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There has been nothing unsaid about interior decorative showpieces and how they have helped change a drab looking room to a glamorous live-in.
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Before that, there are plenty of significant jumps races around the country today that will be seen as pointers to the two showpiece events at the Cheltenham Festival.
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However, England plans to take a team of 560 for the October 3-14 showpiece, which is set to be the biggest multiple-sport event staged in India since the 1982 Asian Games.
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It will need swift action and monstrous retribution for it to rediscover credibility before the showpiece event of the season, in Monaco, on May 26-and the suggestion is that neither will come.
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This will have several interlocking components: The showpiece will be a new U.N. Security Council resolution to add sanctions against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and its affiliated companies, along with other Iranian firms involved in manufacturing, transporting and financing weapons shipments and other illicit activities.
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Something else they share is that neither is recognised as a virtuoso showpiece for the pianist.
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The two new prison blocks were opened this year and were intended to be a showpiece of how prisons should be.
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Despite its location and transport problems, the people of Cardiff showed us how to stage showpiece matches.
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The showpiece is a lengthy interpretation of James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," with a brief detour into George Gershwin's "Summertime.
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Security has been tightened for today's showpiece final of cricket's NatWest one-day international series, at Lord's, after pitch invasions and firecrackers marred earlier rounds.
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The Wiltshire Buildings Record is running the course on local furniture and interior styles as its showpiece event for this year.
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The Scot blamed broadcasters for messing with the schedules and wrecking the entertainment value of the game's showpiece match.
The Sun
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The showpiece is the glass staircase that leads to the first floor.
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The meeting has quickly become a speedway showpiece that also attracts big viewing figures for live coverage on TV.
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The showpieces, however, are large picture-frame ornaments crafted from peppermint sticks.
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The building is a showpiece of elegant design.
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The drawing room of Sunita's apartment near Vellayambalam is adorned with soft-toys, glass and nib paintings and embossed and engraved showpieces.
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The factory was to be a showpiece of Western investment in the East.
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In the Ferrari, the naturally aspirated V8, with its crimson cam covers, is a galling showpiece of aluminized testosterone.
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There are virtuoso showpieces, hilarious buffo send-ups, and elegiac romances, all enhanced by imaginative instrumental accompaniments.
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The Liszt, a showpiece in any conductor's hands, but certainly one in Stokowski's hands, could be more demonic, however.
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This is a terrific showpiece for the pianist who loves to explore exotic sounds, experiment with subtle shadings and pedaling, and create a stylized tableau with careful articulation and voicing control.
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The biennial showpiece underlines Aberdeen as a significant energy capital and as a centre of excellence for such technology.
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The building is a showpiece of elegant design.
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This was one of Rona's showpieces, and in fair weather would be the archetypal cave of smuggling fiction.
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A scorecard is the only record of the 1910 Leytonstone versus South Weald showpiece.
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When male spotted bowerbirds collect sticks and other doodads to wow females, these natural interior decorators don't search for the rare showpiece, according to a new study.
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Whether the early Strauss songs form ideal showpiece material for her voice is debatable.
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The exhibition, which runs until September 7, is a showpiece of life and death in the animal world.
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Instead of being used for serving food, it seems far more likely that it formed a showpiece, displayed prominently at its owner's banquets.
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The slow movement is lovely (although never completely relaxed), and the finale is treated as a virtuoso showpiece.
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Predictably, Wand does not treat Pictures as an orchestral or sonic showpiece, although it would wrong to say that his reading doesn't raise goose bumps of a different sort.
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He was just as good with informal portraits as with grand showpieces.
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The showpiece annual event is being held next month and will be shown on television around Christmas.
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But it was a distraction when Marcelo came on to sing his showpiece aria.
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Impressive debuts for the Bahrain and Beijing circuits, have heaped greater pressure on the British showpiece event.
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The locals had hoped for glitter and glamour to show off their 250 million sporting showpiece and they got rain.
Times, Sunday Times
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On show at the festival are leather goods, clay statuettes, wooden showpieces, handloom garments, jute bags, paper articles, metal crafts and so on.
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With just 12 weeks to go until the Oscars, the Los Angeles Film Critics' Association awards mark the start of the countdown to the showpiece event.
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He approached the showpiece race of the week with a simple but compelling philosophy.
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In the fourth and fifth round Clarke put on an exhibition showpiece and the result was unanimous in Clarke's favour.
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Helgi Tomasson's Quartette is a delightful showpiece for four ballerinas, each of whom has a lengthy solo.
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It is the first time the anthems will not be played at a showpiece final at the new Wembley.
The Sun
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The director, himself, says he is giddy with excitement at the prospect of opening the showpiece event, adding that it made him ‘feel more like a teenager than an adult’.
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The custom-made instrument is the showpiece attraction at Manchester's newest music shop and has been attracting crowds.
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More showpiece than serious contest, it is the culmination of three days of gratuitous exhibitionism in which the clean-cut, vibrant face of the NBA is touted at every turn.
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The existing Bournonville repertory ranges from full-scale story ballets to divertissements and small showpieces.
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Complex solo lute and keyboard works became virtuoso showpieces, culminating in the brilliant sets of variations in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.
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The Flute Concerto is a showpiece for both soloist and orchestra, elegant and atmospheric; it is full of subtle beauties that fall like gentle leaves on the ear.
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Traditionally the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has held its annual prize-giving after Hollywood's showpiece event.
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Being touted as favourites is always a perilous position to be in as Portlaoise learned to their expense however the baton of favouritism for the showpiece finale has now been passed on to Stradbally.
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Dust, mold, and a corkboard were the main showpieces of the office.
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Articles ranging from showpieces to ornamental jewellery are exhibited.
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The showpiece projects are the Concord Centre and Glass City expected to attract two million visitors and 2,000 jobs.
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But if its showpiece has regained its ancestral home, it might just be at the expense of its soul.
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Certainly, Inveraray have not had an easy run to the final, despatching Kingussie's great rivals Newtonmore and league runners-up Fort William en route to the showpiece in Inverness.
