Sentence examples for about a splendid from inspiring English sources

And by this measure boaters who knew about a splendid stretch of Orient shoreline called Long Beach counted themselves rich.

He murmured audibly when I told about a splendid Mexican garlic soup, served on a veranda in old Oaxaca after a drenching summer rain.

He talks often about what a splendid storyteller his mother was.

The new firm's presiding boss (who was succeeded by Jan Leschly, formerly the world's tenth-best tennis player) wrote a dull book about what a splendid success it all was.

They had brains enough this week not to drop any of their usual hints about what a splendid president Mr. Bloomberg would make despite his public insistence that he has no interest in the job.

As we walk towards the centre court, I get talking to a chap about what a splendid sporting summer it's been so far: our footballers going to Germany and winning 6-3 (although I'd sooner they'd lost than give the Nazi salute, as they did); young Denis Compton getting a century against the Australians at Trent Bridge; and our golfers beating the United States at the Walker Cup match.

There is nothing beautiful about seeing a splendid animal reduced to a punctured carcass.' But my editor insisted that I go again, and I did, and I was hooked".

We have been told, though, that the dogs are showing a splendid spirit about the whole thing.

The author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Edith Wharton and a splendid book about Florence, he deploys his learning with an expert's grace.

Those of us engaged with the Holst Birthplace Museum are delighted that Tony Palmer has made such a splendid film about the life and music of Gustav Holst (The inner orbit of Gustav Holst, Film & Music, 22 April).

There is also something timelessly true about the bride's father, a splendid Lloyd Hutchinson, telling ramblingly awful jokes, and the best friend, ripely incarnated by James Corden, reading out smutty poems.