Sentence examples for for the splendour from inspiring English sources

The theatre of the Baroque was remarkable for the splendour of its decorations and the ingenuity of its stage machinery.

The University of Greenwich, for example, quit its Woolwich Polytechnic base for the splendour of the former Royal Naval College buildings.

The Blue Mosque, or Masjed-e Kabūd (1465 66), has long been renowned for the splendour of its blue tile decoration.

The temple, built on the Aventine Hill in 493 bc, became a centre of plebeian religious and political activities and also became known for the splendour of its works of art.

Mansa Mūsā left a realm notable for its extent and riches he built the Great Mosque at Timbuktu but he is best remembered in the Middle East and Europe for the splendour of his pilgrimage to Mecca (1324).

Among the great gay European film makers of the 20th century – Cocteau, Pasolini, Fassbinder, Almódovar – Visconti stands out for the splendour of his vision, and the disillusioned scale of his understanding.

Her wide reading and scholarship and her predilection for the splendours of a lost aristocratic age are revealed in the prose works Alexander Pope (1930), Bath (1932), The English Eccentrics (1933), I Live Under a Black Sun (1937; a novel based on the life of Jonathan Swift), A Poet's Notebook (1943), and A Notebook on William Shakespeare (1948).

"Yesterday, by penetrating at last, even vicariously, into the solemn mysteriousness of the Abbey scene, multitudes who had hoped merely to see for themselves the splendour and the pomp, found themselves comprehending for the first time the true nature of the occasion".

As for the food, the splendour there lay mostly with the aesthetics.

The "splendour" for which the Byron festival is named presumably alludes to the music.

He was known for his military might, the splendour of his capital, Babylon, and his important part in Jewish history.