Sentence examples for magnificent title from inspiring English sources

And he assumed the magnificent title of "Liberator and Dictator".

The magnificent title poem of Larkin's third book, "The Whitsun Weddings" (1964), shows Larkin setting himself within the tradition not only of Yeats but of the 12 poets he professed always to keep "within reach of my working chair".

In short, like all of Jia's films, it's a political film, in which the characters are inseparable (visually and sonically) from their context, which is depicted by way of precise, salient details. (Even the magnificent title is terribly, comically sarcastic — it figures within the film itself as the name of a dance that a young woman performs at an event to promote a brand of liquor).

"The Perfessor," penned what is the first compendium of cocktail recipes, under the magnificent title of Bartenders Guide Containing Receipts for Mixing All Kinds of Punch, Eggnog, Juleps, Smashs, Cobblers, Cocktails, Sangarees, Mulls, Toddies, Slings, Sours, Flips and 200 Other Fancy Drinks, one in four of the drinks contained therein called for Genever.

Ms. Johansson plays Maggie, the magnificent, ravenous title creature in this oft-revived Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955 play about truth and mendacity on a bourbon-soaked Southern plantation.

Lorenzo later earned fame as "the Magnificent" (a title given to anyone of prominence at the time), partly as a tribute to the charm of his personality, partly by a careful projection of his own image, and partly through the perceptions of Florentines of a later generation who, looking back through the dark years that followed his death, tended to think of his era as a golden age.

Ms. Faridany was magnificent in the title role of the Classic Stage Company's "Orlando".

Many books in the library's magnificent collection, bearing titles such as "Crisis in China, Chinana in Transition" and "China's Challenge", are the sofa's contemporaries.

Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia who accumulated a magnificent list of titles before being deposed in a coup in 1974, has a strong claim to be called the all-time king of bombast.

"It is something magnificent to defend our title and I can only congratulate our coach and players," said the Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in a statement.

He made his directorial debut with Wild Guitar, a film as unwatchable as its title is magnificent.