Sentence examples for a splendid return to from inspiring English sources

This is a splendid return to form for director Thomas Vinterberg, after years in the wilderness following his much feted film Festen in 1998.

Looking at where stock prices are today and how America's economy has thrived over the last 60 years, a buy-and-hold investor would have made a splendid return especially if you count dividends if he or she had been able to hang on after the crash.

At 5-5 Federer made the final break, forcing Del Potro into a mistake with a splendid return.

"Ryan Sidebottom was off the field for Yorkshire with a hamstring injury, but Jack Brooks produced a splendid return and Liam Plunkett weighed in too.

Tim Southee's 10-wicket haul - the first for a Kiwi in a Test at Lord's since Dion Nash 19 years ago and something even Sir Richard Hadlee never achieved - was a splendid return for an indefatigable display.

Bach's motets, of which Jesu meine Freude (Jesus My Joy; c. 1723) is a typical and splendid example, return to the a cappella manner of performance.

He said: "After a hiatus of 308 years, and in a moment of splendid coincidence we return to the issue of the taxation of property transactions.

Nevertheless they made and missed plenty of chances, most of them falling to the otherwise impressive Fowler, whose opening goal was a splendid reward for his return to form and fitness.

However, their next effort, the criminally underrated and underselling New Adventures in Hi-Fi, was a low-key return to form, featuring the splendid "E-Bow The Letter": "I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars/ Hash bars, cherry mash and tinfoil tiaras/ Dreaming of Maria Callas/ Whoever she is".

It's a splendid thing to rethink one's positions.

This frankly seemed altogether a splendid prospect to me.