"It was an eerie scene, with these magnificent structures; the phrase 'ghost town' would come to mind".
Nowadays David Threlfall automatically attracts the phrase "the magnificent", like Lorenzo de Medici.
Buzz Aldrin, for instance, described the lunar landscape as a vision of "magnificent desolation," a grand phrase for a bleak truth.
I would dissent from just one phrase in his magnificent book A History of the World in Twelve Maps, when he points to the human agents behind every coercive cartography and states that "it is not in the nature of maps meaningfully to change anything".
The two "Ballad for Billie" settings, for example, hint at the blues without quite going there, and Sasha Cooke, the mezzo-soprano, did a magnificent job of mixing blues phrasing with the refined timbre of upscale modernism.
There were levels of unfriending culminating in that magnificent big gun, "dead to me," a phrase my family wrapped their mouths around with a relish other people saved for steak.
He was on magnificent, noble form – his diction immaculate, every phrase perfectly shaped, the singing of the farewell more beautiful than that of any other Wotan I've ever heard.
As Cavett stumbles over how to phrase the question, Baldwin smiles his magnificent smile and says that, to tell the truth, he doesn't have much hope.
The paper continued, "what makes us feel like she will survive the journey from child star to adult performer is her magnificent sense of pitch, her natural ability to shape phrases and the ease with which she performs.
His five-star Amazon reviews of Ellory's books were littered with phrases like "modern masterpiece", "will touch your soul", "a magnificent book".
