Sentence examples for splendid description from inspiring English sources

His autobiography, which perhaps exaggerates some of his escapades, is a splendid description of 18th-century society in the capitals of Europe.

You have a splendid description of your way of reading the stories of others: entering them as if they were houses, not reading from start to finish but wandering around in them, from room to room.

The purple emperor butterfly is Apatura iris – first classified by Linnaeus in 1758 – and Iris was Greek demi-goddess and winged messenger who appeared in the guise of a rainbow, a splendid description of the butterfly.

"A South African Childhood" (1954) evokes the sun-drenched Transvaal landscape in lyrical prose; "Pula!" (1979) recounts a visit to Botswana in a narrative that brims with splendid descriptions: the Kalahari desert is a "vast sand-tray" in which thorn trees are "lead toys stuck upright".

She acquired a splendid job description – Head of the Equine Hair and Makeup Department – and when she was not painting the horses, seems mainly to have been working with mud.

"What a splendid opportunity is lost in the description of the exodus from London!" wrote the otherwise forgotten Basil Williams.

While the Simpsons own a very ordinary apartment near Malaga (their description), the Dochertys actually paid less for a splendid farmhouse in eight acres in southern France, complete with two cottages ripe for conversion and letting.

The first volume contained an introductory note and some important essays, whereas the second volume was a systematic description of the Italian Tertiary molluscan faunas illustrated by several splendid copper engravings.

The description concentrates very much on FAO as an actor almost in splendid isolation, instead of taking as a point of departure FAO as one actor in a system-wide effort.

Fairly detailed descriptions and portraits of Dixon survive; he had a swarthy complexion and a "splendid head of hair".

The lively description of a desert storm at the end of Imruʾ al-Qays's qaṣīdah is a splendid example of such passages.