Sentence examples for splendid black from inspiring English sources

Moore wore a splendid black silk robe with a gold lamé collar and belt.

Our favorite appetizer was the pulpo salad with nubs of tender octopus nestled among chunks of crunchy celery and splendid black and green olives (as well as whole cloves of garlic).

With them was a small group of shore larks, showing their splendid black and yellow face pattern and the tiny 'horns' that give them their alternative name, horned lark.

Colombia's best export There are 15 Colombian riders at this year's Giro (thanks, Jim Hatch), nine of whom ride for the Italian-based Colombian national team, who were granted a wild card entry and have been conspicuous in breakaways with their splendid black jerseys.

Portraying this passionate couple on Wednesday evening, Sting in waistcoat, with his wife, actor, producer, political activist, Trudie Styler, begowned in a splendid black Roland Mouret strapless swept across the stage at the Allen Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Cryer doesn't know, but he's full of splendid black-and-white stories about The Great This and Dear Old That.

There have been dozens of film versions of "Hamlet," but none that I know of have ever topped Laurence Olivier's splendid black-and-white version.

Maal returns to the stage in a splendid black-and-white outfit and the songs become more upbeat, using four-beat and four-chord patterns rather than the cyclical figures and triple time of his acoustic set.

Gorgeous George confirms his talents inside the ring with his splendid black-and-white homage to TV newsman Ed Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck before putting his acting skills to the test (putting on weight, growing a beard) as a CIA operative in Syriana, a global conspiracy-style thriller from Traffic writer Stephen Gaghan.

The key is to avoid the pace of a thriller, never a problem with a prose as quietly rich as John Updike's, and a strategy adopted with success by Hilary Mantel in her splendid Beyond Black.

Madonna introduced the documentary in a splendid sparkling black v-necked dress with silver spangles, and then the still images of skeletal children with AIDS began.