He was appalled, he wrote later, by "a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places… so rampant and so splendid that there seems to be reason for fearing that men and women will be taught to feel that dishonesty, if it can become splendid, will cease to be abominable".
The congress became a splendid social event.
The hitherto obscure town of Ghazna became a splendid city, as did the second capital at Bust (Lashkar Gāh).
While Curtiz fetched up as one of the two senior house directors at Warners (alongside rambunctious, two-fisted Raoul Walsh) and became a splendid embodiment of the studio system's oft-forgotten virtues, Buñuel, who worked at the speartip of the European avant garde, remained an international Gypsy, labouring in Mexican obscurity for many years, albeit usually at top form.
This was so that they could become – that splendid word – apotropaic.
His goal, a fellow theologian and friend, William Sloan Coffin, said, was not to become "a splendid splinter".
When you take this slightly hot, quite sweet, sour and extremely juicy sauce and pair it with fish (chicken, yes; pork or beef, sure; but primarily fish), something really magical happens: a bunch of rather ordinary ingredients becomes quite splendid.
From £475 for four nights for up to six; longlandsdevon.co.uk Eweleaze Farm "For most of the year, Eweleaze is a working organic farm but every August it becomes a splendid, eco-friendly campsite," says Iain. "The facilities, near Osmington in Dorset, are excellent and the views of the county's Jurassic Coast are breathtaking".
The new capital city of Valletta, founded in 1566, became a town of splendid palaces and unparalleled fortifications.
One of that album's songs, "Coisa No. 5" (also called "Nanã"), a complicated short piece mixing African and march rhythms, and a splendid melody, became so popular that it was recorded more than a hundred times during the 1960's.
