Sentence examples for In magnificence from inspiring English sources

Ralph's portrait is a study in magnificence as this condor surveys his arid surroundings, pondering his chances of staying alive.

During the 1950s, when Simenon was living in magnificence by Lake Geneva, one of his neighbours was Carl Jung.

Just about everything in "Magnificence of the Tsars"—which concentrates on, but is not confined to, the coronation attire of Russia's emperors is fabulous, including such accessories as a pocket-sized jewelled telescope and a diamond-encrusted gunpowder flask.

Take the ruins of Hampi (pictured), a site in southern India that rivals Angkor Wat in magnificence but gets only 47,000 foreign visitors a year, compared with the 2.3m who flock to the Cambodian attraction.

And these lands it is fitting that I who (not to speak arrogantly) am superior to those ancient kings in magnificence, and in all eminent virtues, should now reclaim.

So the schlocky dropped ceiling was ripped away, and there lay exposed an elegant mahogany coffered ceiling that, as she says, is only matched in magnificence by the house's other details: paneled, curving wainscoting up the winding staircase, six-foot-high linenfold paneling in the dining room and elaborate inlaid floors.

Central to the depiction of the Athenian statesman is Cornelius Nepos' famous phrase that Alcibiades "surpassed all the Athenians in grandeur and magnificence of living".

Readers who aren't familiar with "How the Dead Dream," the first novel in the trilogy in which "Magnificence" is the concluding volume, won't have much background about T.'s relationship to Casey or his environmental activism.

They outdid each other in the magnificence of the settings in which they told me this.

He delighted in ostentation and lived in great magnificence, spending freely the huge fortune that he made out of judicious speculation and public office.

On the fifth night of last week's retreat, as we gathered in deep, shared silence in the magnificence of the Spirit Rock meditation hall, our teacher read softly from a New York Times piece by author Robert Wright (The Moral Animal and, most recently, The Evolution of God).