Sentence examples for magnificent description from inspiring English sources

Over the next 26 years, the scientific veterans compiled the magnificent "Description de l'Égypte," an oversize 24-volume encyclopedia published serially for wealthy subscribers, encompassing not only the natural history of Egypt but a history of its people, descriptions of the Pyramids and other monuments, and details of daily life, commerce and agriculture.

DAVID ROTHMAN Jackson Heights The Alienist by Caleb Carr (1994), for its magnificent descriptions of New York's streets and monuments.

The work gathered here is art beyond question, magnificent beyond description, and it is not likely to come this way again, in such staggering quantity and quality, for another lifetime or two.

Because there is not much to add to his work, we will be rather brief here, and refer readers to his magnificent and detailed descriptions [5], [45].

"Swept clear, magnificent," is the ecstatic description in the normally sober form book.

One thinks particularly of the magnificent delivery of the description of Jocasta's suicide and Oedipus's self-blinding.

In the 1800s Charles Dickens Charles Dickens dubbed Washington, D.C., "the land of magnificent distances," a fitting description of Shoreham Hotel.

On the other, later in the Iliad, there is a description of the magnificent shield, which the god Hephaestus made for Achilles, with the whole of the cosmos (from the stars in the sky to the sheep in the fields) represented within its frame.

Melville began this book as a mere retelling of old sailors' yarns about a huge albino whale named Mocha Dick or Moby Dick, but in the process he transformed it into a novel so magnificent that it defies both description and critical analysis.

It contains, among many other things, descriptions of a magnificent palace with silver doors and walls of pearl and murals portraying the feats of Djangar's companions, the 6,012 Heroes.

"God is this supreme, magnificent force, intelligent, gorgeous beyond any description.