But the portfolio is showing a splendid profit and for the time being Whitbread's portfolio position remains safe.
We have been told, though, that the dogs are showing a splendid spirit about the whole thing.
Mika Gallery will show a large and splendid 17th-century Edo period Buddhist mandala, a result of many, many wood blocks.
A thematic section labeled "African Art and Leadership" holds a king's ransom in gold pendants from Ivory Coast, shown near a splendid photograph of an Akan queen, her face sprinkled with gold dust.
And several of the most striking objects from that show, including a splendid silver ewer -- Sasanian in shape, Greco-Roman in decoration, found in China -- are in this one, too.
This first recording of Lully's opera "Persée" shows, in a splendid interpretation, what Mr. Rousset and his forces can achieve at their best.
The headliner is Conor McGregor, the explosive Irish men's featherweight (a hundred and forty-five pounds) champion, who helped sell the broadcast by showing up in a splendid fur coat, and by threatening to throw a chair at his opponent, Eddie Alvarez, the men's lightweight (a hundred and fifty-five pounds) champion.
We got a lift within five minutes, and the affable driver took us the long route into town in order to show us the splendid Jacobean mansion Audley End.
No. Gatsby showed his splendid colors in a quieter gesture, when he decided to stand watch outside Daisy's house after the hit and run, thinking to protect her from Tom — dear Daisy, who at that same moment was sitting across from Tom, over a plate of cold fried chicken, the two of them in the "natural intimacy" of their eternal conspiracy.
He shows himself to have a splendid wife in Elspeth and a life before and, doubtless, after politics.
