Sentence examples for splendid edition from inspiring English sources

That may be true, but in fairness to Moser it should be known that Viking has published a splendid edition of his masterpiece at a price that is affordable for most of us.

Even their greatest World Cup triumph, in 1990, was beset by pre-tournament squabbles and threats of various issues, as you can read in Simon Burnton's quite splendid edition of our Stunning World Cup Moments.

Dante became known as the divino poeta, and in a splendid edition of his great poem published in Venice in 1555 the adjective was applied to the poem's title; thus, the simple Commedia became La divina commedia, or The Divine Comedy.

His sister, "like a self-appointed Red Guard for our family," incinerates a pile of their grandfather's Buddhist sutras and destroys many of Kang's "traditional thread-bound Chinese books, including a splendid edition of 'The Complete Works of Zhang Taiyan' in a custom-made wooden case".

I particularly adore Gorey's invented creatures, especially his Ombledroom, an anxious white sheet on legs: 'The Ombledroom is vast and white, and therefore visible by night.' And for those more drawn to a familiar, domestic creature, there is a fantastic Christmas treat - a splendid edition containing six of Judith Kerr's classic stories about an oddball cat - Mog Time (HarperCollins £19.99).

The limited edition Splendid X Damsel collection is 100% cotton and the handful of pieces include T-shirts for $78, pants for $148 and a shirtdress for $198.

(Bolaño's translator, Natasha Zimmer, in her splendid "Notes Toward an Annotated Edition of '2666'," likens the speech to the one at the start of "Moby-Dick," given by "another spiritual leader with a salty past").

In her splendid introduction to this new edition, Judith Thurman notes that Blanche Knopf, wife of Beauvoir's American publisher, heard about the book on a scouting trip to France and was under the impression that it was a highbrow sex manual.

Meantime, author and presenter Matthew Sweet has recorded a special edition of the splendid Radio 3 programme Night Waves in honour of The Singing Detective, featuring its producer Ken Trodd and its star Bill Paterson, to be broadcast on 29 November.

But, when Jonson came to write his splendid poem prefixed to the Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays in 1623, he rose to the occasion with stirring words of praise: Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.

Gore Vidal, in an introduction to the Penguin edition, calls Maggie and her father "splendid monsters".