Roger Scruton's memorable judgment, that Stockhausen "is not so much an Emperor with no clothing, but a splendid set of clothes with no Emperor" sums up the sceptical view, which in Anglo-Saxon countries has become the dominant one since the 1970s.
The king has the young man brought from the river, dressed in a splendid suit of clothes, and seated in the coach with his daughter, who falls in love with him at once.
When her parents went out for an evening she fancied them, in their beautiful clothes, going to splendid places.
Just as I came to understand that his splendid vestments were not ordinary clothes, I learned that during the Eucharist the bread and wine were shot through with something alive, which vibrated and trembled, and when I watched my father, enormously tall, the color of his vestments blurry through all the incense, in all the candlelight, it seemed to me he brought all this about.
Other clothes are equally colourful: there's a "splendid pink taffeta dress", a much desired pair of yellow gloves, a blue cotton blouse, and we see militiamen in "blue uniforms".
Shepherds would wear their best clothes and take with them one of their most splendid animals: Shepherds are not men.
Edward's surroundings and possessions were regally splendid: his rooms were hung with costly Flemish tapestries, and his clothes, books, and cutlery were encrusted with precious jewels and gold.
LONDON — With happy, ditzy models blowing bubbles, bunny-eared fetishists accessorized with carrots and fantastically imaginative clothes, Central Saint Martins celebrated the end of an era with a splendid graduate show last week.
In my own time, I've lost mobile phones, wallets, keys, my glasses, an entire spare set of clothes, endless pairs of tweezers, umbrellas, a striking embellished cardigan and a splendid peacock chair.
