Splendid necked dung beetle.
They formed a splendid all-round combination".
So the Indigo Bay resort (indigobayresort.com)on Bazaruto island, where we honeymooned last year, offered a winning combination of splendid isolation and 21st century comforts.
There was even the Spencer Tracy movie about the French and Indian War, "Northwest Passage" (which, in combination with Michael Mann's splendid "Last of the Mohicans," means there have been more good movies about that conflict than about the War for Independence).
The three clarinets sounded splendid: Michael Lowenstern on bass (especially fruity in combination with Mr. Serkin's left hand in the third movement), Marianne Gythfeldt and Mr. Shifrin again, now getting the normally shrill E flat instrument to make pure poetry.
And the actors, a company of 10 who play pilots, co-pilots and flight attendants in varying combinations over the course of six different "flights," are splendid, projecting a variety of human responses to terror.
Only a combination of profligacy in front of goal, heroic last-ditch British tackling and a couple of splendid saves from the British goalkeeper, Craig Connell, precluded the men in yellow from being completely out of sight at the break.
An elderflower combination of posset, fritter and ice-lolly, then a scoop of freshly churned strawberry ice cream were splendid celebrations of early summer.
