Sentence examples for most splendid of from inspiring English sources

Without exception, even the most splendid of these getups is at best a disappointment.

But Bell has plenty of that and on England's last tour there made one of the most splendid of his 22 Test hundreds – at Durban.

Perhaps the most splendid of the earlier Indianizing kingdoms, lasting until the 9th century ad, was that of the Pyu people in the upper Irrawaddy River Valley.

Dick was an amateur philosopher or, to borrow a phrase from one of the editors of "Exegesis," Erik Davis, he was that most splendid of things: a garage philosopher.

The most splendid of these is the wedding dress from Christian Lacroix's final show in 2009, which took its inspiration from statues of the Virgin that are carried aloft through the streets of Spain during religious processions.

In works whose quality can be compared with the most splendid of the Hellenistic emblēmata, extremely small tesserae, some measuring less than 0.04 inch (1 mm) square, were assembled in wax or mastic on a board of fine wood.

One of the most splendid products of SEAHERO is the production of 16 in.

Each September the city plays host to a jubilant jazz festival that features many big-name performers at one of the most splendid times of the year -- when the fog lifts and dabblers can go about their business in sunglasses.

In his essay about the De Tessé Room in "Period Rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art," James Parker describes Marie Antoinette's console and its companion piece — a tall secretary, also in the room — as "two of the most splendid pieces of French furniture ever created".

In a remote jungle of Guatemala, among the remains of a little-known ancient city with a name meaning Place of Serpents, archaeologists have uncovered one of the largest and most splendid palaces of Maya kings ever discovered.

The great sucking sound that may soon be heard in the Mediterranean will be the influx of oil and other executives and American tourists returning to the most splendid display of Roman civilization that exists outside Italy.