The island's resplendently Victorian-style Grand Hotel dates from 1887.
It is notable that the empirical foundations of physiology were being established in the studies of the human body being conducted in medieval schools of medicine and, as the career of Leonardo da Vinci so resplendently illustrates, among artists of the Renaissance, whose interest in accuracy and detail of painting and sculpture led to their careful studies of human anatomy.
Shīrāz is the birthplace of the Persian poets Saʿdī and Ḥāfeẓ, whose garden tombs, both resplendently renovated, lie on the northern outskirts.
The most gifted exponent of this kind of writing, which sought immediate access to the realm of the subconscious, was Angela Carter, whose exotic and erotic imagination unrolled most eerily and resplendently in her short-story collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979).
This statement cushion is vintage Kidston, stuffed with duck feathers and resplendently bright.
The décor is resplendently ersatz, as if several photo-shoot styles have been picked from a catalogue and bolted together.
Dressed resplendently in a blue suit with a not-in-anyway-matching Hawaiian-style flowery garland around his neck, Mr Balls was pictured cutting some fairly gruesome Gangnam-style shapes at Labour's annual diversity evening.
Burnished by the sun's rays at dawn, King resplendently ascends heavenward to his eternal reward.
"When it was time to leave," Ellis writes, "Weinberg reached into his pocket as he came to the front door, pulled out a quarter, and handed it to the resplendently uniformed admiral, saying, 'Here, boy, get me a cab.' " The idea that outsiders can profit by virtue of their outsiderness runs contrary to our understanding of minorities.
Appreciative readers of Seshadri's poems can recognize his expert assimilation of American poetry from Frost to Lowell, Bishop, and Ashbery, their tutelary spirits resplendently alive in a tradition he himself is significantly shaping with his own alchemical brand of poetic magic.
No Chinese emperor was more resplendently arrayed.
