Sentence examples for a splendid type from inspiring English sources
Julia Preston (NYT) AFRICA UGANDA: EARLY VIEW OF AMIN Idi Amin, whose dictatorial rule from 1971 to 1979 left 500,000 dead, was a "splendid type," good at rugby but "not very bright," according to 1964 British records released by the Public Records Office in London.
Idi Amin was also a formidable rugby forward, although one officer said of him: "Idi Amin is a splendid type and a good (rugby) player, but virtually bone from the neck up, and needs things explained in words of one letter".
Now she has a splendid case.
There's a splendid casino/emporium type place; there's a highway right here with cars rushing past.
Among them are riveting 4th-century earrings of what is called the "Splendid Type".
Painting in oils on board, he produced images that Hogarth would have commended as worthy of being displayed as pub signs: paintings with conventionally romantic titles (Battlements, View of the Ruins, Bend in the Road) displaying a taste for cutting the crap and appreciating, besides Gris - the subject of a splendid manifesto-type portrait in 1963 - the Tintin comic strips.
A splendid time was had by all!
A splendid tale, economically told.
Ohl and his colleagues found that the junction between n-type and p-type silicon was a splendid diode.Years later, that was to prove a key discovery for the future of the transistor.
By the time he arrived back, I was out of danger, and he brought with him spectacular presents: a leopard-skin rug, which he christened "King Kaiser" and whose head would serve as a gnaw-bone to generations of Cavalier King Charles puppies; also a splendid ceremonial Wilkinson sword of the type, he said, carried by the guards at Buckingham Palace.
A splendid work of a very different type is 1946's Mexican standout "Enamorda," a tale of the Mexican Revolution inspired by Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew". Starring María Félix and directed by Emilio Fernández, it benefits from the gorgeous cinematography of Gabriel Figueroa.
