Sentence examples for a splendid description from inspiring English sources
His autobiography, which perhaps exaggerates some of his escapades, is a splendid description of 18th-century society in the capitals of Europe.
You have a splendid description of your way of reading the stories of others: entering them as if they were houses, not reading from start to finish but wandering around in them, from room to room.
The purple emperor butterfly is Apatura iris – first classified by Linnaeus in 1758 – and Iris was Greek demi-goddess and winged messenger who appeared in the guise of a rainbow, a splendid description of the butterfly.
She acquired a splendid job description – Head of the Equine Hair and Makeup Department – and when she was not painting the horses, seems mainly to have been working with mud.
"A South African Childhood" (1954) evokes the sun-drenched Transvaal landscape in lyrical prose; "Pula!" (1979) recounts a visit to Botswana in a narrative that brims with splendid descriptions: the Kalahari desert is a "vast sand-tray" in which thorn trees are "lead toys stuck upright".
"What a splendid opportunity is lost in the description of the exodus from London!" wrote the otherwise forgotten Basil Williams.
While the Simpsons own a very ordinary apartment near Malaga (their description), the Dochertys actually paid less for a splendid farmhouse in eight acres in southern France, complete with two cottages ripe for conversion and letting.
The lively description of a desert storm at the end of Imruʾ al-Qays's qaṣīdah is a splendid example of such passages.
Have a splendid Easter weekend.
This building, a splendid.
