They're highly entertaining adventures for 9+ and the central characters - Edwin and Perpetua - transported to Hysteria from the 'real' world, are a splendid double act.
Despite his many splendid acts of homage, he habitually took the boss position.
Take thousands of bright young things with too much time on their hands, itching to achieve, amuse and misbehave, and splendid acts of delinquency will follow.The best colleges strive to out-prank one another.
There is a splendid touch in Act III when Tatiana dances with Gremin at her palace ball.
The victims' heads were displayed on poles among the standards of the cohorts side by side with the eagle of the legion, while those who had committed the murders, those who had been present, and those who, whether truly or falsely, boasted of their share in what they regarded as a splendid and memorable act, vied in exhibiting their bloody hands.
It is a splendid gift, his returned act of merit.
There is Miss Annie de Montford, born Annie Riley, a mill worker turned mesmerist, who claimed her mind "ruled the world" even after a New England newspaper called her act "a splendid temple of humbug".
And Ms. Kurtzberg has a splendid moment in the second act while Mr. Walden sings "There's Something About You".
The Living Room is a splendid vestibule that anoints the act of reading with grandeur and civic pride, and Seattle is lucky to have it.
The final act was a splendid assortment of Irish cheeses beautifully presented in large pieces on a thin slab of stone.
The book is an act, but a splendid one -- his sense of strategy vis-à-vis his audience hasn't been this keen in 30 years -- and it's a zesty, nugget-filled read.
