The second movement's climax came in a riotous clash of carnival tumbles and pratfalls, and a gentle conclusion with whispering violin and harp felt like a splendid afterthought.
Indeed everyone felt that a more splendid series of scenes had seldom, if ever, been witnessed in a Manchester theatre, while the music was interpreted in a manner which left hardly anything to be desired.
"The Mantle of the Prophet" is literary, learned, and deeply felt; the writing is splendid, and the story is an education for the Western reader unaware of the powerful tides of Shi'ite and Persian thought over a period of centuries.
Every year spring feels like a splendid, novel thing; the Times writes about sidewalk seating as if it were a new invention.
I was weirdly adept at cutting a pineapple, and doing so made me feel like a splendid tropical queen with no one to witness my splendor.
What do you feel makes a splendid friend?
After a few months of splendid isolation, Byrd felt able to draw some conclusions.
After a splendid lunch, I felt I had to ask of the great chef how he had made it: 'Well, you know, almond cream, a little chocolate and some puff pastry.' 'Oui, chef,' I thought.
In conclusion, he raised the Northern Ireland pilot scheme, saying: "It would be splendid if you felt it might be possible to replicate this exploratory integrated project on the mainland, perhaps as a choice pilot?" Johnson replied that the primary care trusts funding the homeopathy hospitals felt "they have to take into account the clinical effectiveness of any treatments they commission".
It was quite splendid, and revealing of how bankers felt about themselves in the glorious days of the mid 20th Century.
