Sentence examples for past splendor from inspiring English sources

Dr. Gunzenhauser was, like Ms. Mössinger, beguiled by the city's past splendor.

Over nearly two decades, Jane Walentas has toiled -- reading and learning, scraping and chipping, recording and cataloging -- to return a historic carousel to its past splendor.

- When he later returned to the Great Hall of the People for a session with the chairman of the National People's Congress, Biden couldn't seem to get past the splendor of the Fujian Room where the two delegations met.

While Xi'an gave me a view of China's grandiose past, Shanghai's splendor is a signal that the best may still be ahead.

But he also perceived that tribal fetish worship, the past and its splendors, the Orient and its mysteries, the art world and its sacrileges, the underground, the flea market, the souk, the steppes, and the gay demimonde were all ripe for creative plunder.

I was zipping past wonders, zooming through splendor.

For those of us who have thrilled to his past artistry and vocal splendor -- and that includes just about every opera fan of the last 30 years -- Mr. Pavarotti's performance was a sad spectacle.

There is not a prayer more beautiful or nostalgic than the one which evokes the splendor of its past and the shattering and enduring memory of its destruction.

But all the Anglo-Irish are having trouble living up to the splendors of their past.

According to Fabienne Lupo, Chairwoman of the FHH, "The splendors of the past are a yardstick to better measure the work of today, and while we should be wary of comparisons, clearly our horologist forebears pushed the limits of time measurement to a degree that inspires humility". Beta 21 wristwatch, representing the first quartz watches.

For Brazil, the match was the start of an aggressive push to reclaim the splendor of its celebrated past.