Sentence examples for splendid affair from inspiring English sources

It was a splendid affair full of love of good food and laughter.

Running from October 13 to 21, this promises to be a splendid affair.

(Charlotte Higgins) Nero's palace was a splendid affair, partially gilded - hence the name Domus Aurea, or "Golden House".

It was a splendid affair, served by aged retainers with white napkins draped over their forearms, and the young Gyurcsany was in attendance.But that was then.

The annual general meeting of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is a splendid affair, held in the heart of London.

That was a splendid affair, at which I had been invited to speak, along with the historian David McCullough, among others.

Francis Beckett's piece told how Baldwin's 50th anniversary at Keele University had been celebrated with a splendid two-day affair, involving speeches from distinguished alumni, a dinner, a testimonial football match, and a service of thanksgiving for his work.

It was a splendid two-day affair, with speeches from distinguished alumni, a dinner, a testimonial football match, and a service of thanksgiving for his work conducted by the Bishop of Lichfield, a Keele graduate.

As Barbara Tuchman noted in her splendid chapter on the affair in "The Proud Tower," Henry Adams read with delight the anti-Semitic rants of ­Edouard Drumont.

Signed in London on 8 April 1904 by Lansdowne and the French ambassador Paul Cambon, it marked the end of centuries of Anglo-French rivalry and Britain's splendid isolation from Continental affairs, and attempted to counterbalance the growing dominance of the German Empire and its ally, Austria-Hungary.

It was there that I began a lifelong love affair with the splendid Pilsener Urquell.