Sentence examples for a splendid scene from inspiring English sources

That would be a splendid scene.

What a splendid scene it is, in "The House of Mirth," when Lily Bart's careworn father, having laughed at his daughter's reasonable wish to sweeten the luncheon table with twelve dollars' worth of lilies of the valley each day, is asked by his free-spending wife if he is ill.

Kostas, a waiter at the Diodos taverna, which offers a splendid view of the scene, smiled.

It makes a splendid picture.

I wield a scribe's brush to catch the splendid scene, As the sun bursts through billowing clouds a thousand leagues in red.

"As a result, Ian wrote a splendid new scene that to my mind rings absolutely true".

I'm reminded of the splendid scene in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks, where Jack Nicholson delivers a powerful speech advocating togetherness: "Why can't we work out our differences?

There are any number of splendid scenes: a Miao festival, a Daoist monk performing a clandestine ritual, the life of a ranger who has retired to the mountain forests to preserve them.

Cavendish offers a more artful and richly developed narrative, beautifully balanced between splendid scenes of Wolsey's glory and vanity and ironically contrasting scenes of disgrace, abasement, and painfully achieved self-knowledge.

The splendid scenes of elephants, lions, hippos and great herds of other animals in Botswana are the work of Dereck and Beverly Joubert.

"I saw a splendid sense of community.