Sentence examples for sort of splendid from inspiring English sources
The buildings are glass and steel, and sleek, in the modern federal style, and the place has a sort of splendid isolation about it which goes nicely with being the city of invention.
Life is no brief candle for me; it is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got hold of for a brief moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible, before handing it on to future generations.
Wouldn't it be splendid if a sort of futuristic version of tournament golf could be played where the spectators are encouraged to sing and chant and shower the players with abuse whenever they fluff a shot.
It is a splendid place, with that sort of beautiful oddness that characterises the best of the British seaside.
But the Old Testament is full of splendid things, too.
There are a number of splendid Persian miniatures depicting this.
Even if they are not seamless evenings of splendid extravaganza.
"It's splendid news, and that's sort of what they were waiting for to decide where CRP fit," says Roger Blumenthal, who directs preventative cardiology at Johns Hopkins University.
In his speech at the Lyceum Hall, Treatt warned of Australia's attitudes on its success: "A sort of mental haze seems to obscure the vision splendid that lies before this country.
Look at Iowa, glibly characterised as reactionary but which "had all these splendid deep impulses in its legal system that just sort of got papered over".
