Sentence examples for glorious setting from inspiring English sources

Few European cities can rival Budapest's glorious setting astride the Danube river.

McIlroy's risky three-wood approach to the par-five 16th was glorious, setting up the birdie which swung the pendulum.

Leeuwin Estate holds annual summer concerts in an outdoor amphitheatre, shaded by a forest of karri trees, a eucalypt native to south western Australia: a glorious setting.

What more glorious setting to discover that the key to a successful Swiss roll is not to have your filling too wet – though, as our class of 2014 quickly proved, there were more ways than that to ruin one.

But in the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping broke with Maoist dogma by saying, "to get rich is glorious," setting off a wild scramble that has produced a generation of hungry entrepreneurs.

You could walk across the outfield grass Babe Ruth had just been standing on and leave that glorious setting through one of the bullpens that opened onto the outside world.

As compensation, the ballet looks glorious, set by the late Nicholas Georgiadis in a Tudor Gormenghast of gilded towers, which slide about like shifting islands to suggest Rose's journey towards self-knowledge.

There's virtually nothing to be faulted about the cast, the music or the glorious set.

Gemma broke professional and personal taboos all over the shop in a glorious set-piece that was over all-too quickly.

The drag ball is a glorious set-piece of comedy and pathos; but Henry James's description of death as "the distinguished thing" recurs throughout the book.

The plot bore certain similarities to Bret Easton Ellis's novel Glamorama, resulting in an out-of-court settlement, but it's essentially a string of glorious set pieces – notably David Bowie refereeing a "walk-off" between our heroes.