Sentences with phrase «as splendid»

Also, these letters work as splendid samples in case you need to look up the pattern or are running out of ideas of what to write about.

A Curious Little Blog also likes the book, especially as a splendid example of punching back:

To attempt to bring this all back to where I began, I think that light, as splendid as it is, might indeed be a bit of a red herring, but perhaps for figurative painting as well.

The visuals in CG cutscenes, at least, look every bit as splendid as a Final Fantasy game should, especially in the beginning and ending.

They are all just as splendid as one another.

The music is equally as splendid!

This autumn, football / soccer fans the world over will be able to test their skills against each other in EA Sport's next FIFA game, which is shaping up to be just as splendid as its predecessors.

Unveiled luxury happens to cherish well some shrewd voyagers who have sought Lombok as their splendid leisure spot.

There are more ancient, fascinating tombs to enter, and don't miss the Philae Temple, which was built 3,000 years ago in honour of the goddess Isis and is just as splendid today as it ever was.

On this interactive tour, you'll be able to feed pet and hold a stingray before doing some snorkeling in the crystal clear waters where you will see even more rays as well as a splendid array of colorful tropical fish.

You will be walking distance from the «Grands Magasins», the Opera, the Champs Elysées, Montmartre, as well as the splendid Parc Monceau and the Palais des Congrès business center.

Switzerland is famous for its natural beauties such as splendid mountains, magnificent lakes, natural wonders and its panoramic view.

There are plenty of stunning aesthetic touches at Villa Batu Kurung including water features and stone and wood carvings as well as a splendid landscaped tropical garden full of excellent views, trees, and shrubs.

Chur, where we stayed for three nights, was as splendid as Brig - the hotel could not be bettered.

The Villa Borghese - Cavazza is a superb example of neo-Gothic architecture, designed by the architect Luigi Rovelli at the beginning of the 20th century, and still proving just as splendid to modern visitors.

Though the coral reefs are not as splendid as elsewhere in the world, it is still a fun day out.

Begur also offers a number of historic landmarks that may interest you, such as its splendid castle, dating back to the 11th century.

As well as splendid beaches with their obligatory azure waters and powdery sand, you'll also find mouth - watering cuisine, vibrant culture, astonishing landmarks and luxuriant hotels to make the Indian Ocean the ultimate 5 star holiday destination.

As of this update (2017), we'd been here twice and it still remains as splendid as our first visit.

In many cases, using a few more airline miles and planning with a bit of creativity can take you to somewhere just as splendid, if not more so, and reward you with incredible value for being willing to step off the beaten path.

If you view self - publishing as a splendid way to spite traditional publishers, all this must be incredibly frustrating.

Burton has assembled a fabulous voice cast, many of which (such as the splendid O'Hara and Martin Short, Father of the Bride) perform multiple roles.

Cast Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa Nicholas Hoult as Nux Hugh Keays - Byrne as Immortan Joe Rosie Huntington - Whiteley as The Splendid Angharad Riley Keough as Capable Zoë Kravitz as Toast the Knowing

Jane Austen novels prove handy in all manner of ways - as a splendid read, an opportunity to observe that matters of the heart have scarcely changed since the early 1800s and as an abundant source for screen adaptations, not just of her oeuvre but also for spin - offs such as «Clueless,» which is a contemporary retelling of «Emma,» and the recent «Becoming Jane,» very loosely based on Austen's unfulfilled romantic life.

It's followed by an album highlight in the light - hearted theme for Conan's Mongol sidekick Subotai, presented as a splendid dialogue for cor anglais and clarinet in «Theology / Civilization», widening to the strings to make a truly joyful antidote to the oppressive feel of the preceding tracks.

For an artist to capture in paint such spectacular birds as the splendid fairy wren and rainbow lorikeet is all but impossible, but here the photographs really do these stunning birds justice.

But Bruce Lyon of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Erick Greene of the University of Montana in Missoula wondered why, then, yearling male lazuli buntings were so variable in color, with some birds almost as dull as the all - brown females and others as splendid as the full - grown males.

To my mind Chapman and her sisters deserve memorials every bit as splendid as Karl Marx's at Highgate.

No longer a splinter, Ted Williams is just as splendid — and brash — as ever when he turns his skill against another worthy opponent, the leaping tarpon of the Florida Keys

This prisoner, condemned as a malefactor, was given a burial as splendid as the burial of kings.

There are few spectacles in sport as splendid and pitiable as the batter defiantly poised before all that endless openness.

For «a sinner» does not signify that there is something bad in him, as a splendid apple may have a little bad speck that can be removed with a twist of the paring knife, so that you can scarcely see that anything has been cut out.

who laid the cornerstone of its glorious chapel, a building known throughout the world as a splendid example of English Gothic architecture.

She was applauded by us all as a splendid aberration.

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Despite this setback, the Great Leap Forward reached a splendid crescendo in October 1980, with an extravaganza billed as «Employee Awareness Day.»

In his splendid apartment overlooking Central Park in Manhattan — and with a view of his Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein treasures inside — Geffen talked about fortuity and fame, allies and adversaries, as well as Apple, Hillary, yachts, and what it's like to have a celebrated song written about you.

As a male - to - female transsexual that walks with Christ, I am quite use to many levels of humor about my wife and I... and this was a splendid joke, in my opinion.

A sense for this kind of paradox is what is really splendid about McDougall as a historian.

Do we need to be a Christian society to sustain religious liberty, as R. R. Reno argues in his splendid Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society?

As a result all we have is a splendid root preservation.

The author, professor of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, does a splendid job of introducing the series, addressing such topics as natural law, principles of human action, the determination of the moral good, and the connection between virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes.

and Ezekiel in one of his most splendid passages deliberately played on the word's double meaning as he pictured the spiritual resuscitation of his dead nation: «Thus saith the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.»

This period also saw some of the most splendid examples of Gothic architecture, such as King's College chapel at Cambridge.

And there are other passages that might perhaps — and then only if one were desperate to justify their inclusion in this volume — be described as «wry,» such as one long and splendid (though not really humorous) portrayal of the boredom that afflicts the ironist.

In the classical expression of the problem of adjacency, of which the story before us is a splendid example, the ensuing conflict of interest between A and B proves to be irreconcilable, and the weaker B is effectively eliminated as a contender.

And if the terrible thing happened (for religious edification should not, like a woman's finery be intended for a splendid moment) that you were buried alive, if, as you awakened in the coffin you seized upon your accustomed consolation, then even in this lonely torment, you would be in unity with all men.

Certainly, in so far as he confesses his faith in God he is committed to a belief in the One who may properly be called supernatural and superhistorical — for God is not to be located in the spheres of what, by the use of certain limited and limiting frames of reference, we call nature and history — but such a belief does not relegate God to some alien sphere of splendid isolation and inaccessibility.

But books featuring Martin Luther King Jr., such as the two splendid volumes by Taylor Branch, still remain the most read, most influential and most memorable.

Therefore, each of the natural loves, beautiful and splendid as they are in themselves, must be transformed by charity, by love of God.

I believe in my heart that sin is a splendid concept, full of wisdom — and, when it is understood biblically, that is, relationally, that is, as the abbrogation of relationship, it is itself, at bottom, a highly compassionate teaching.