Sentence examples for seem splendid from inspiring English sources

I suspect buzz will swirl more around artists like Mr. Mueck, whose crouching boy is too much like a Disney character but whose smaller sculptured figures seem splendid; Paul Pfeiffer, whose tiny videos are pretty much the same each time but are still winners; Chris Cunningham, Stan Douglas, Vanessa Beecroft and others already more connected to the Anglo-American art market.

For example, says veteran Los Angeles studio owner Skip Saylor, high frequencies that might seem splendid on a CD might not sound as good as an MP3 file and so will get taken out of the mix.

At first the idea of linking PCs in networks served by a powerful central computer seemed splendid.

But that hardly excuses the earlier uprisings.Many more popular overthrows that at first seemed splendid have turned out badly.

Straightforwardness is a virtue in the Midwest, so Chicago's fanciest restaurants often seem both splendid and desperately out of place.

My isolation no longer seemed so splendid.

This organ seems a splendid and powerful addition to St . Ignatius Loyola

His Falstaff seems like splendid company, he gives a memorable performance of three "rude mechanicals" at once in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and his delivery of an obscure soliloquy that Shakespeare contributed to the play "Sir Thomas More" is a welcome break from the chestnuts.

Krenek's Violin and Piano Sonata from 1945, a piece previously unknown to me, seemed a splendid example of an old message (beautifully balanced contrapuntal exchanges between the instruments, a cleanly passionate spirit) speaking in a way that had little to do with a tonal past.

The drive in to central London, dreary enough in reality, seemed incredibly splendid, a veritable yellow brick road, to the point that I stared at the nondescript bed-sitters and dreary industrial parks with as much excitement and interest as if they were Buckingham Palace, the Tower and Westminster Abbey combined.

Back in the early '80s, the city had a dull grey hue -- a crushed spirit makes even the most splendid scenery seem mournful -- but in the spirit of '89 that was all gone.