Sentence examples for external splendour from inspiring English sources

The steps taken towards decline, that is, towards the substitution of essential matters by accidental, can be considered on four levels: the periods of founders of societies and basic legislation; of genuine development; of external splendour; of frivolity.

It's now a listed country house hotel that's set in rural splendour outside Christchurch.

But splendour did not mean empty extravagance.

Not so sure about the splendour, sorry.

Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean.

You are playing Splendour this year.

"Slendor sine occasu (Splendour without diminishment)".

The restrained splendour of its books is unsurpassed.

The multitude starved, while nobles lived in splendour.

His work is characterized by exotic eroticism and decorative splendour.

In December 1655 Pope Alexander VII received Christina in splendour at Rome.