Sentence examples for magnificent in the first from inspiring English sources
"He was just magnificent in the first half".
Mike Richter was magnificent in the first period, stopping all but one of Detroit's 22-shot barrage.
Barcelona were magnificent in the first half, the wonderful Andrés Iniesta irrepressible, gliding past Bastian Schweinsteiger and Xabi Alonso as if they were mere puffs of smoke.
For a game with so much on the line, the Centurions were magnificent in the first half; scoring seven tries and dismantling a side who finished third in Super League 12 months ago.
Glendon Rusch was magnificent in the first game, earning his first victory as a Met with an 8-3 decision, and Dennis Springer kept the Mets in the second game, a 7-6 victory.
MK Dons manager Karl Robinson told BBC Three Counties Radio: "I thought the players were magnificent in the first half.
Ms. Seigner, who can currently be seen as a supernatural being in "The Ninth Gate," has magnificent cheekbones and a look of perpetual distraction.
Rhodes was magnificent in the fourth quarter of the 17-14 upset victory against San Diego, walloping the arm of quarterback Philip Rivers on a safety blitz before he could release a pass.
He draws on a deep store of anecdotes and analogies — the social initiatives of Ismail the Magnificent in the nineteenth century and those of Nasser in the fifties, the French Revolution and the cautionary example of Romania, where members of the Ceauşescu regime managed to retain power for several years after the dictator was toppled.
In Istanbul's Süleymaniye Mosque, built by the genius architect Sinan for Suleiman the Magnificent, in the sixteenth century, I was struck by how a tier of scores of lamps dropped from the immense and shadowy spaces above, as if curious about the goings on along the carpeted floor.
Opener Luke Wells ended the match with successive boundaries to reach 23 not out, with Michael Yardy, whose magnificent 153 in the first innings had laid the platform for victory, unbeaten on 18 at the other end.
