Sentence examples for a magnificent read from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a magnificent read" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a book, article, or any written material that you found particularly enjoyable or impressive. Example: "After finishing the novel, I can confidently say it was a magnificent read that kept me engaged from start to finish."
His confiding authorial voice is in large part what also makes The Goshawk a magnificent read, and it was this that motivated me to move away from the objective, authoritative tone of much writing about nature to try to write a book that was more reflexive, made up of voices that were not always full of certainty, that were sometimes contradictory, not always obviously my own.
Even stronger is the String Sextet of 1924, first recorded at Mr. Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival for ECM and now given a magnificent reading by the Raphael Ensemble (Hyperion 66516).
Dr. John Shaw Billings, already an eminent bibliographer, was named director in 1895, and he quickly sketched out what would take until 1911 to build: a magnificent reading room over 7 floors of stacks, and a delivery system that would quickly get books into the hands of whoever cared to ask for them.
Not long ago, I listened to a magnificent reading of Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment," read by the fine radio actor Alexander Scourby and recorded in the late '50s.
It was the most magnificent reading I ever heard, and he had the part [of Stanley Kowalski] immediately.
Coincidentally, I just read a magnificent script Duende, written by Rose-Marie Turko, a passionate adventure between an American woman and a gypsy virtuoso set in southern Spain, the cradle of flamenco.
I read about a magnificent dog named Lad.
I recall sitting and reading at a magnificent Roman site somewhere in Europe.
So, whatever the limitations of merely reading about a magnificent actor, it is gratifying to have such a well-researched and fluently written, committed yet not adulatory biography as Jonathan Croall's "Gielgud: A Theatrical Life," whose 580 pages can claim what Mozart did for his music: not a note too many or too few.
Founded in 1800, its main reading room has a magnificent dome with dedications to world civilizations — Islamic civilization prominent among them — to which the United States is indebted.
He said to me last time we spoke: 'I heard you have a magnificent book … ' But he hasn't read it.
