The phrase "a splendid high" is not standard in written English and may be confusing without context.
It could be used in contexts discussing experiences, emotions, or states of being that are elevated or positive.
Example: "After receiving the award, she felt a splendid high that lasted for days."
Alternatives: "a wonderful peak" or "an exhilarating high."
He stayed in a splendid high-ceilinged apartment on the Upper West Side with his sister Theo and several of her friends from Oxford — mostly returning Rhodes scholars.
Le Cap Horn (33-4) 79.08.33.10 featureseafoodfood buffet, traditional and local specialties and a splendid, high-end wine list.
Fuchs was a favorite of Brahms, who called him "a splendid musician," high praise indeed from that demanding master.
It has splendid high views over land and sea.
When he is in grooming mode, he tends to shellac his hair into a high, rather splendid, Little Richard-style pompadour, but today, as on most days in Haiti, the hair had been allowed to collapse into a dusty quiff.
That, and CNN (and Fox News) broadcasts in splendid high-definition, unlike MSNBC, if you need another reason to take a peek this evening.
The splendid high-ceilinged rooms and strengthened floors of this, the Hotel Biron, are full of sculptures once more – not just Rodin's work, but sculptures by his pupil and lover Camille Claudel (which have been brought out of storage for the first time) and thousands of fragments of Greek and Roman sculptures that he bought by the crateload for inspiration.
By the time of the 1948 consent decree in an antitrust suit that weakened the studios, Hollywood had built up a critical mass of talent that was suddenly set relatively free, able to burst forth in a splendid display of high-flying and extravagant achievements (the "auteur theory" was made for the distinctive and individualistic works of the fifties and early sixties).
On the stony slopes I found a splendid Echinocactus three feet high.
I think I fed off those feelings when I was creating Duke Rawlins, the main antagonist of Darkhouse". And a splendid villain he becomes, high up in the league of crime and mystery's great villains of all time.
