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That's depressing not only because it means that future DVD reissues of 1993's The Three Musketeers will now come with a sticker reading "A seminal breeding ground for thespian magnificence ", but because Two and a Half Men – and Sheen in particular – just isn't very good.
The stern turrets and gables of Manchester town hall have presided over the city since 1877 to celebrate King Cotton in all its magnificence.
Compelled by the high gold horizons of this old countryside, even as it was undergoing the assault of big-field farming in the 1950s and 1960s, Baker developed a new style with which to evoke its odd magnificence.
For example, Niall Ferguson, in his entertaining British television series, "The Ascent of Money", is so dazzled by the magnificence of the Medici in Florence in the 15th century that he gives them more credit, as it were, than they deserve.If European banking was invented anywhere, it was probably in Genoa in the 12th century, spurred on by the revival of trade in the Mediterranean.
Take the ruins of Hampi (pictured), a site in southern India that rivals Angkor Wat in magnificence but gets only 47,000 foreign visitors a year, compared with the 2.3m who flock to the Cambodian attraction.
W.G. Grace, the finest cricketer of his time, had a beard of such magnificence that some considered it to be against the rules, a dangerous distraction in a hard-fought game.
While all is elegance and magnificence over at Homeward, the Badfort crowd, led by Beaver Hateman and his relatives Nailrod, Filljug and Sigismund, live a sordid existence.
In "Bambi", where he excelled himself with the pathos of the fawn discovering his mother dead in the snow, or acknowledging with a slight, shy droop of the head the magnificence of his father, or stumbling through the forest on legs as thin as the grass, he found the face too bland, and the nose too short, to register as much as he wanted.
In between, is what amounts to an ode to the magnificence of science in general, and of biology in particular.
In Michelangelo's work magnificence is self-evident.
But Ms El Feki also uses sex as a means to understand better a country and society that has been rocked by revolution.In this section Quietude The times they will be a-changing Missing the Nobel Stalin and his cursed cause At the dawn of magnificence Reprints Related topics Amazon EgyptThe Arab world today is widely criticised for its sexual intolerance.
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The primary grammatical function of "magnificence" is as a noun . As stated by Ludwig AI, this word describes grandeur, brilliance, or lavishness. It is a noun that represents the quality of being magnificent or the act of doing something magnificent.
Expression frequency: Very common
