The poem is splendid, not because he grieves prematurely for Brodsky, but because he mourns Brodsky's exile, as he does his own.
Frimbo thought the film festival a splendid idea because it showed how much people admire cats.
This Dynamic Matrix pavilion would not only be considered a splendid showroom because of its national influence, but also would create a mechanism of self-modification, self-thinking and self-development, which will offer great potential for future development.
The open letter by Xu Youyu et al, which described Liu as "a splendid choice" because of his advancement of human rights causes and the peaceful fight against social injustice, amassed signatures from about 200 mainland intellectuals and activists; it was posted in Chinese, English, French and Japanese on websites hosted outside China.
I decided to hang in the Bon Marche, not because I wanted to buy unaffordable and splendid things but because it was twenty degrees cooler than the rest of Paris.
Fellow major league right fielder Paul Radford, when writing about how to play the position, said: "I always considered 'Orator' Shaffer a splendid right fielder, because of his skill in throwing out men at the initial bag.
The first thirty minutes of the fire-side chat went well, not splendid, just okay because I was so nervous and intimidated, perhaps by his lack of facial feedback, that I stiffed up and reserved my usual playful nature.
This is not because he possesses some splendid new political thought but because he is a popular politician, with long experience in great offices of state, who will not repeat Mr Hague's mistake of turning the party's hate-affair with Europe into an all-consuming obsession that voters consider weird.
The enormous blue eyes that Stanley Kubrick had wired open for A Clockwork Orange don't shine quite so brightly these days, but only because his splendid shock of white hair provides less contrast than it did when it was brown.
But that's not only because of the splendid progress Bunky Jellinek pointed to.
