Sentence examples for made splendid from inspiring English sources

Salads made splendid openers.

By which Mr. Plackenmeyer meant that the local rabbis made splendid political bosses.

One day a woman he knew told him the tweezers made splendid eyebrow pluckers.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, as Anckarström, Amelia's husband, made splendid sounds but held himself aloof, as if giving a recital in costume.

His books include "Royal Palaces of Europe" (Vendome, 1983); "Blenheim Revisited: The Spencer-Churchills and Their Palace" (Beaufort Books, 1985); "Her Majesty the Queen" (Collins, 1985); a memoir, "Daydream Believer: Confessions of a Hero Worshipper" (Macmillan, 2001); and six anthologies of Daily Telegraph obituaries, which, he often said, made splendid bedtime reading.

If Gass the philosopher can dismiss the "balderdashy" metaphysics of the Elegies, Gass the writer knows that such balderdash is made "splendid" by the power of poetry, which begins, after all, where science leaves off, and captures the paradoxes and complexity of human experience because it is itself a paradox.

She makes splendid meals for him, not just at dinnertime but also for lunch.

Mr Walker, a governor best known for curbing trade unions in Wisconsin, says that the success of Reagan, a former governor of California, shows that those who run states make splendid foreign-policy leaders, especially those with experience of biffing unions.

Mr. Irwin also makes splendid use of everybody's favorite new toys — the iPhone and its big brother, the iPad — in a solo bit called "The Businessman," gently spoofing those slick-suited, self-important fellows barging down the street barking into their phones.

She is also adept at the telling phrase and makes splendid use of the period's vivid letters, diaries and memoirs, from John Hervey and Horace Walpole and the perceptive Fanny Burney, to the Dorset farmer's niece Elizabeth Ham, a caustic observer of "farmer George".

Graham Kitchener's showboating cock-up which cost Worcester a certain try and the late Bedford drop-goal attempt which momentarily appeared to have bounced back into play and wrecked the hosts' promotion ambitions will make splendid "What happened next" clips for years to come.