Sentence examples for splendid antiquity from inspiring English sources

In Rome, there's so much splendid antiquity at every turn that much of it has slipped the notice of the would-be ticket takers.

Brown emphasises Flaubert's excellent horsemanship, and the image of him galloping across moonlit African plains makes it easier to understand why he spent so much of his life recreating not just a banal Normandy, but a lost and splendid antiquity, most memorably in his novel of Carthaginian magnificence and cruelty, Salammbo (1862).

The National Archaeological Museum, 19 Piazza Museo Nazionale, (39) 081 440 166, houses splendid Greek-Roman antiquities, including works belonging to the Farnese family and treasures uncovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Barbara Graziosi, professor of classics at Durham University, says: "It is getting classics out of its splendid isolation, finding intellectual common ground in antiquity.

He hadn't yet seen the Met's antiquities in their light-filled surroundings, splendid galleries opened in 2007.

But "Inferno" picks three of the world's most strategically significant, antiquity-rich cities as its settings, and Langdon makes a splendid tour guide and art critic throughout.

The construction of a splendid museum at the foot of the Acropolis, purpose built to house the antiquities within view of the masterpiece that epitomises the Periclean age, was meant to be a debate shifter, more eloquent than any number of legal arguments.

Absolutely splendid.

Splendid stuff.

How Splendid!

Just splendid.