Sentence examples for splendid about it from inspiring English sources

And the unfortunate part of it was, there was nothing splendid about it at all.

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.

There was admittedly something splendid about the gesture of sending help to the Ionian revolt, and it has been suggested accordingly that early 5th-century depictions on vases of Theseus attacking the Amazons (inhabitants of Anatolia) may be a coded allusion to Athens' Asiatic adventure of the 490s.

The new firm's presiding boss (who was succeeded by Jan Leschly, formerly the world's tenth-best tennis player) wrote a dull book about what a splendid success it all was.

What is splendid about Oz is the detail of things – yellow bricks, emerald glasses, oilcans.

But what is most splendid about Surya is the entirely meatless side of the menu.

There was something splendid about the fact that Nige survived to draw his pension.

"What was so splendid about her was that she was completely maverick," agreed the novelist Penelope Lively, winner of the Booker and Carnegie awards.

There is also something rather splendid about this extended-play peep show, as if Mr. Maddin had stumbled across a hitherto lost archive of cinema's less-than-innocent past.

What was splendid about his blog is that he laid out all the polls for readers to judge for themselves, unlike Real Clear Politics which seemed to miss out quite a number of them.This maths-based approach is to be applauded, if only because we have in the past given too much credence to the pundits and their views (dangerous ground for a columnist, of course).

There is nothing "splendid" about isolation.