Sentence examples for magnificent liner from inspiring English sources
Like a magnificent liner in the final stages of construction, the shell of Northern Ireland's new landmark is complete.
Brunel's magnificent liner is housed in the dry dock where she was built, and you can walk under a glass "sea" to inspect her revolutionary iron hull, and tour the decks, where Victorian life on board is imaginatively recreated.
One of the first modernist buildings in Britain – it looks, from the road, like a magnificent liner – its famous residents included the writers Agatha Christie and Nicholas Monsarrat, artists Henry Moore and Kenneth Rowntree, and Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus.
Saltire flags stand furled in its magnificent, liner-like hallway and saltire badges are pinned in the lapels of its doorkeepers and attendants.
In the section devoted to "The Tale of Genji," the 12th-century novel that is among Japan's greatest contributions to world literature, for example, modest books and hand scrolls are grouped around a pair of Edo-period screens by the 16th-century master Kano Soshu like small craft around a magnificent ocean liner.
On this particular day, almost 227 years after his birth, one of his most famous descendants is in town, the Queen Mary 2, Cunard's flagship and "the most magnificent ocean liner ever built," to quote the company brochure.
The first 40 minutes are brilliant, with dreadful puns, one-liners and magnificent setpieces – audience members become his on-stage air band and he strips down to a leotard to recreate Olivia Newton John's Let's Get Physical video.
James Cameron's recreation of the 1912 sinking of the 'unsinkable' liner is one of the most magnificent pieces of serious popular entertainment ever to emanate from Hollywood".
From inside, looking out, this magnificent housing block has the feel of a great concrete liner anchored between the mountains, the city and the sea.
They are very different shows (one packs far more one-liners about anuses), but I got a similar feeling watching Fleabag as I did watching Jane Campion's magnificent Top of the Lake, which returns to our screens next year.
