Sentence examples for oddly magnificent from inspiring English sources
Among the nearly fifteen thousand books published on Lincoln since his death, this one, which will appear next month, is an oddly magnificent downer, lavish and pictorial, but more wince-inducing than anything else, covering a post-Reconstruction era that prompted Frederick Douglass to pronounce emancipation, in its actual practice, "a stupendous fraud" against Southern blacks and Lincoln himself.
There is a word for the killing of elephants (elephanticide) and a word for destruction of the natural world (ecocide) but oddly enough – given our magnificent form in this area – there doesn't seem to be a word for killing off a whole species.
Visitors to the V&A's treasure trove of royal bling from the Tudor, Stuart and Russian imperial courts who have been camping in France in the last 20 years may find something oddly familiar about the magnificent pair of snarling leopards standing guard at the entrance to the new exhibition.
It's anticipation, too, of course: Having had a taste, I know I want more, because my relationship with Trico and the magnificent monster's oddly marked human companion has only just begun to bloom.
It's anticipation, too, of course: having had a taste, I know I want more, because my relationship with Trico and the magnificent monster's oddly-marked human companion has only just begun to bloom.
Nolan suspended the actors with invisible wires, as Ang Lee did in the magnificent fighting-on-treetops scenes in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," and the solidity of the floating and falling bodies is oddly moving.
