Sentence examples for magnificent less from inspiring English sources

And it was an experience of mixed virtues (as Ryan White wrote in April of Spalding's homecoming to Portland, "Spalding could sing the phone book and it'd be magnificent – less so if you were wedged into a phone booth at the time"), but this unique artist's musicianship and a powerful, handpicked ensemble brought the positives to the top.

In Mr. McVicar's hands, "Il Trovatore" thus has a chance to emerge as the drama Verdi intended rather than as the succession of magnificent melodies less exacting interpreters settle for.

From the east, Nethermost Pike is magnificent, hardly less so than Helvellyn".

"I feel confident in saying that the disadvantages of New York life which led me to leave have intensified rather than abated," he writes, "and that the city which Le Corbusier described as a magnificent disaster is less and less magnificent".

The Hudson is no less magnificent.

HIMALAYAN ART Rossi & Rossi's ensemble of some two dozen gilded cast-metal Himalaya Buddhist sculptures at Neuhoff is luminous in a quieter though no less magnificent way.

No less magnificent are the fine interiors and art collection at Raby Castle, with its walled gardens and deer park (rabycastle.com).com

Speaking of magnificent performances in less than perfect biographical films, Vanessa Redgrave is still elating as the modern dance legend Isadora Duncan in Karel Reisz's ISADORA (1968).

A Japanese TV company has taken the brave step of remaking the cult series - only this time with a boy-band star in the lead role, loads more money, better special effects and less magnificent sideburns.

But as we rattled alongside a fast-moving river and suddenly emerged wide-eyed on the shore of jade-green Seton Lake, the scenery was no less magnificent.

The Young's moduli of cells were significantly higher and cytoskeletal actin structure was more organized with higher thickness for all test samples subjected to combined stresses; however, these features were less magnificent for applied stress phase angles with higher negative values.