"magnificent idea" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a very impressive, creative, or brilliant plan or thought. Example: "The CEO's presentation was met with thunderous applause as her magnificent idea for restructuring the company was revealed."
The interloper proves immune to polite remonstration, whereupon Edwards is seized by a magnificent idea.
"What a magnificent idea!" he roars, gleefully escaping to a Rousseau-like tableau of dense ferns, soaring palms and cascading waterfalls.
President Bush's stunning plan for creating fish sanctuaries in areas under United States control is a magnificent idea that may be many years too late.
If the decline continues, the price, considering 15 years of inflation, will approach that of the days before the Shah of Iran came to us with his magnificent idea of shifting the world's economic power from the West to OPEC.
It's a magnificent idea to reconnect society's civil base and to ensure that the readers help form and create as much of the paper's original voice as its journalists have always striven to.
After the seventh take, he wrote, he had "three lines of verse, a garbled fragment of melodic material and a magnificent idea".
Bold, crazy, magnificent ideas.
But after the second world war these magnificent ideas, combined with those of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus, produced an anonymous, international style with high-rises that shut people up with geometric precision.
I became jaded reading from Crabs on the Rampage and Mills and Boon's Rash Intruder and wondered if, rather than praise entertaining trash with tongue in cheek, I should make a Book Club night that celebrated great books and magnificent ideas.
But in good Rosenzweigian focus, even more astonishing than Rosenzweig's magnificent ideas about life are they way he conducted himself during the last 10 years of his life.
They have magnificent ideas, but they fail to act on those.
