Sarah Pring is splendid as the battling Mrs Alexander Nicholas Folwelll staunch and secure as Mr Kallenbach and Clare Eggington bright and engaging in the vocally stratospheric role of Miss Schlesen, Gandhi's secretary.
His stark images provide a fitting stage for the splendid actors' brazen rhetorical battles.
The splendid festivities to celebrate the Battle of Bull Run, intercut with the eerie flare of a bonfire, suggest a dance of death, the bonfire foreshadowing the burning of Atlanta.
Despite disappointment that a Democrat won Vice-President Gerald Ford's seat in Michigan, White House sources report that Richard Nixon's spirits have lifted of late and he is in splendid trim for the coming battles over impeachment.
By Richard H. Rovere The New Yorker, March 4, 1974 P. 90 Despite disappointment that a Democrat won Vice-President Gerald Ford's seat in Michigan, White House sources report that Richard Nixon's spirits have lifted of late and he is in splendid trim for the coming battles over impeachment.
Although a civil war was being fought in the north-east of the island, where Tamil Tigers demand a separate state, the sounds of battle never reached the splendid beaches of the south.
Almost all the sculpture on this splendid arch was snatched from earlier monuments: a battle frieze from the forum of Trajan, a series of Hadrianic roundels, and eight panels from a Marcus Aurelius monument.
Donald Prothero has added another splendid book to the Evolutionist's arsenal in the battle with the Hydra.
The hill itself played a significant role in the American Revolution, when Cobble Hill Fort was erected at its apex, giving General Washington a splendid view of the fighting along the Gowanus Creek (later Canal) in the Battle of Long Island.
That what actually exists in art is just a splendid, messy continuum, connecting artists like her and Romney, rather than a battle between clearly separable forces of serious art and fashion, should finally trouble only pedants.
Hall battled on, writing in February 1856: "The army is in splendid health, only seven deaths in a week and one of them a fit of apoplexy from drunkeness".
