Sentence examples for gave splendid from inspiring English sources
Something similar happened here, in the opening week of the much-awaited new work from Scotland's playwright hero Gregory Burke, whose Black Watch last year took so much of the world by storm and gave splendid scalding hope to his land's cultural and political renaissance: he was damned by faint applause.
Mrs. Dennis at 12 High St. gave splendid help throughout the emergency.
Miss Gubrud's interpretive authority was given splendid support by the piano accom paniments of Yehudi Wyner.
Dmitri Hvorostovsky gave a splendid account of Yeletzky's aria from Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades".
He also held that while "the Chindits gave a splendid example of courage and hardihood", their achievements were inadequate returns for the resources bestowed on them.
Robert Ross, a friend of Wilde's gave a splendid dinner party for Mr. Holland on the occasion of his 21st birthday.
Knowing that he was soon to die from prostate cancer, he gave a splendid final birthday luncheon and assured his friends that, fully reconciled, he regarded death as the next great adventure.
Ms. Skuce gave a splendid performance, singing with warm, rich tone and endless agility, though her ardent portrayal was sometimes undercut by the inanely randy carryings-on that came with the staging.
Everything was filtered through the same normalizing glamour that hid the light in Titania's face, that gave her splendid gown the appearance of a tracksuit, that had made the boy appear clothed when they brought him in, when in fact he had been as naked as the day he was born.
For example, some of my best friends have splendid gardens that give them great joy.
