Sentence examples for antique splendor from inspiring English sources
But there are others -- crisply edited combat sequences, tableaus of antique splendor, a hugely muscled Brad Pitt modeling the latest in Hellenic leisure wear -- that remind you why you like movies in the first place.
From the antique-crammed splendor of the Seguine Mansion near the bottom of Staten Island to the straitened confines of the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx, the trust's houses, each within a park, are a testament to some sort of architectural will to survive, or at least the will of the advocates who saved them.
He was to have carried "some of the finest antiques in the area" and believed that "the splendor of the old hotel only adds to their value".
And yet, at just under 1,600 square feet, the place still maintains some of its former splendor, an impression aided by the collection of antiques Mr. D'Amato and Ms. Haven bought.
Formerly the private office of a 1920s banker and tycoon, the bar evokes the splendor of Old New York with its beautifully hand-painted ceiling, stained glass faux-windows, mahogany woodwork and antique rugs.
Grabner also favors things whose chief reason for being is shameless splendor, such as a vast curtain of slim metal chains, spangled with costume jewels and weighted with antique hand tools, by Joel Otterson; and a hanging cascade of colored cords by the veteran fabric artist Sheila Hicks.
Pragmatism must accompany splendor.
Splendor awaits in minute proportions".
They assembled in his studio, before backdrops of Greco-Roman splendor and the Midwestern prairie, stripping down, oiling up, and — this being long before the full-frontal seventies — putting on silken posing straps, a kind of antique G-string.
