Sentence examples for magnificent compared from inspiring English sources

In the current absence of the Cannes version at 155 minutes, it's hard to make a case for what was removed, but when Tornatore unleashed his 171-minute Director's Cut in 2002, there was ecstasy from fans, but scepticism from many critics, with Roger Ebert noting that whatever "butchery" Miramax had performed on the Cannes print, it looked magnificent compared to the bloated Tornatore edit.

It is a magnificent city, even compared with the great pantheon of European capitals, and it has been an anchor of Hungarian culture since its inception.

They were written in magnificent poetry (often compared to "brocade" because of the rich pattern created by many allusions to poetry of the past) and were provided with a structure that is at once extremely economical and free.

James Cabooter from the Daily Star described it as "a magnificent supersonic ballad" and compared it to the group's 2003 single "Too Lost in You".

As for not very good-looking James Coburn, besides winning the movies' most famous knife fight in the 1960 classic "The Magnificent Seven," he compares not unfavorably with Sean Connery when he starred in his own vehicle as his American counterpart romantic lead/secret agent, "Our Man Flint".

The artist's first impression after the long voyage, "sixty-three days of feverish expectancy," was "nothing very extraordinary; nothing, for instance, that could be compared with the magnificent bay of Rio de Janeiro".

Your poems have been compared to "a subtle, magnificent jazz".

Favreau compared the gathering to The Magnificent Seven in facing seemingly insurmountable odds in their confrontation.

But the advantages of the proteomic methods compared to DNA methods are magnificent: most functional information about cancer-related genes are placed in the proteome [ 78] and the discordance of mRNA and protein level elucidates the advantage of proteomic methods [ 79, 80].

I first saw the play at Stratford in 1965 with Paul Scofield, whose voice one critic compared to "thunder buffeting from crag to crag", as a magnificent Timon.

Too much can be made of comparing the magnificent scruff of the old festival and the new.