Sentence examples for extraordinary splendor from inspiring English sources
"Everything flowered with an extraordinary splendor".
The Caliphs competed with their rivals of the Abbasid and Byzantine empires, and were known to indulge in furnishing their palaces with "extraordinary splendor".
"On this still-peaceful English summer day, the swastika is flying high over Center Court, along with the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes, Marshall Jonn Fisher writes in his new book, "A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played".
A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played by Marshall Jon Fisher Three Rivers, 321 pp., $15.00 (paper).
Such extraordinary swings from mediocrity to occasional splendor only occur at French auctions where the offerings are not arranged by category.
The financial district retains its Raj-era splendor, and its General Post Office had no dark history but was an extraordinary time capsule of the 1930s.
Berlin's extraordinary modern history -- its status as a palimpsest onto which memories of imperial splendor, fascist terror and failed Communist utopia have all been inscribed -- inevitably adds resonance to the city's musical life.
All of the dancers are women, even those playing male roles; their jeweled costumes give splendor to their highly articulated feet and sinuous arms and hands, in which supple fingers curl backward to extraordinary effect.
There's as much at stake in this hilarious, moody and cantankerous film adaptation of "Splendor" as there was in this summer's other movies of comic antiheroes like "The Hulk" and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen".
Pragmatism must accompany splendor.
