Sentence examples similar to splendid colleague from inspiring English sources

Trophy professors are wooed with outsized paychecks, splendid housing, travel allowances, well-endowed research centers, brilliant colleagues -- and the promise that they'll rarely encounter an undergraduate.

The soprano Christine Brewer was splendid, and her three colleagues, Margaret Lattimore, Paul Groves and Jonathan Lemalu, scarcely less so.

But that is not the opinion of most of the journalists, former diplomats and bankers who gather at a splendid dinner party hosted by colleague here in her apartment in the city's Galata district.

They toss out conclusions about him that have no relation to his splendid reputation among his former colleagues, Republican and Democrat alike.

The splendid overture we hear today survives courtesy of another colleague's memory.

When history remembers with approval the New York County District Attorney's Office, a large measure of credit must be given to David Worgan, a fine lawyer, a loyal colleague, an outstanding public servant and a splendid gentleman.

You can read more about them in this typically splendid article from my not at all posh friend and colleague Marina Hyde.

Composed sporadically over 18 years, left unfinished, and subsequently pawed over by surviving colleagues, this intriguing piece of Russian history resembles a splendid torso to which a number of prosthetic devices have been attached.

Or chuck a fax at a colleague to show the dangers of manhandling office equipment?" Sounds like a splendid idea.

Interrogation isn't the way to get the best answers In the blurb for The Independent's splendid charity auction, which finished yesterday, I was tickled to be described, by my colleague John Walsh, as "an interrogator of legends".

Henry and his colleagues were too tactful to respond by saying that that this might be a splendid idea, but it may well be what they think.