Sentence examples for like a splendid from inspiring English sources

Or chuck a fax at a colleague to show the dangers of manhandling office equipment?" Sounds like a splendid idea.

Every year spring feels like a splendid, novel thing; the Times writes about sidewalk seating as if it were a new invention.

It's possible that I just wanted to offer my condolences and tell them that their son sounded like a splendid young man.

It sounds like a splendid idea but in an interview, Juan Bazaury-Creel, the director of World Wildlife Fund-Mexico warned "New ideas don't get accepted overnight".

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.

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.

The brass playing was breathtakingly articulate — a model of hands-off efficiency — and yet listening on Wednesday was like admiring a splendid, glistening automobile whose engine had been removed.

It is like stepping into a splendid old pub in the Irish countryside.

Soon the two of them were laughing like children in a splendid meadow on a spring day.

Their conversation is based around a previously illustrated event – the gift of a book with obvious homosexual themes – and the halting, confessional dialogue is interspersed with Bechdel's own reflection: "I kept still, like he was a splendid deer I didn't want to startle".

Nino, delivers a splendid Shylock-like speech about the condescension of the Italian mob (I don't know whether it's the work of Refn; the screenwriter, Hossein Amini; or the novelist, James Sallis, whose book he adapted).