Sentence examples for modest splendour from inspiring English sources

The buildings were only of a modest splendour: the hall was not completed until the end of the seventeenth century; the rooms economically decorated without wood panelling; the main quadrangle only of one story and garrets.

But cattle, sheep and modest grouse shooting and stalking cannot keep the family in the splendour to which it grew accustomed in its heyday of ginger wine and whisky receipts.

His decision to abjure the splendour of the apostolic palace in favour of the modest Casa Santa Marta guesthouse has offered proof of his personal commitment to a humbler church, while his tender embracing of Vinicio Riva, a man terribly disfigured by tumours, underlined his hands-on pastoral approach.

The encouraging result was a modest profit and a net gain to the taxman.Rather as today's organisers are fending off references to the splendour of Beijing, their predecessors faced comparisons with the ugly ostentation of Berlin in 1936 and the glamour of Los Angeles in 1932.

You are playing Splendour this year.

Not so sure about the splendour, sorry.

Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean.

But splendour did not mean empty extravagance.

Downton's Brendan Coyle broods in menacing splendour.

The stick was created specifically for Splendour.

Even waders cannot diminish his brooding splendour.