Sentence examples for for the splendor from inspiring English sources

A designer's inventions can express nostalgia for the splendor of one particularly idyllic past, as Dior's did.

The over-all effect is lurid, nasty, and naggingly memorable, not least for the splendor of Eastwood's leonine coiffure.

The famous city of Isfahan was now open to foreign tourists and the writer was not prepared for the splendor and cosmopolitanism of Isfahan.

Starting tomorrow, the inner workings of Florentine artisan studios will be on display at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden (220 Vesey Street), for the Splendor of Florence festival.

"I had read the most terrible, the most sordid, the most magnificent manuscript that had ever fallen into my hands," he recorded in his autobiography, "Memoirs of a Booklegger"; "nothing I had yet received was comparable to it for the splendor of its writing, the fathomless depth of its despair, the savor of its portraiture, the boisterousness of its humor".

Just as Mrs. Kennedy invoked Versailles to stand for the splendor of 18th-century aesthetics, not the petty and scatological aspects of the king and courtiers, the Kennedy era stands for the culture, beauty and sophistication that upgraded American pageantry and public discourse.

For example, Carnival borrowed $443 million in June to pay for part of the Splendor and another $353 million for the Rudy Princess.

In 2001, when the Pulsar was launched, everything about it was different from the Splendor: For small, it was big; for slow, it was fast; for fuel efficient, it was powerful for cheap it was expensive; for sober, it was sexy; for Japanese, it was Indian.

But most of the mansion's $8 million in art, furnishings and treasures were sold when the estate was given to the Jesuits, for whom the splendor was incompatible with a vow of poverty.

April 14 2014 July 27 201414 For all the splendor and rarity of the show's hundred and sixty-odd sculptures from the vanished states of Indochina and the Malay Peninsula in the middle of the first millennium A.D. (including rare loans from the slowly liberalizing Myanmar), it's a quieter, more melancholy breed of blockbuster.

It is a descriptor for Manhattan and Brooklyn ("The splendor, picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities"), and for birds ("Such oceans, such successions of them"), and for compost ("this transparent green-wash... so amorous after me... clean forever and forever").