Now tellingly visible, too, are areas of the silver leaf that gilded the armor of the warriors, a profoundly Gothic decorative element in this splendid composition, in which Uccello also displayed his up-to-date mastery of perspective and illusionistic foreshortening in the figures of the fallen and retreating knights and horses.
Here and there in every regiment or battalion, half a dozen, a score, at the worst 30 or 40, would pay the forfeit; but to the great mass of those who took part in the little wars of Britain in those vanished light-hearted days, this was only a sporting element in a splendid game.
The pyramid temple of Unas is distinguished by the extensive use of granite for architectural elements, including doorways and splendid monolithic columns with palm capitals.
30 Rock normally does a splendid job of balancing the corporate elements of television, often utilizing it for comic fodder.
But a baked ham is just too splendid, too tempting, to leave to the elements.
Glen Newton, a software developer in Canada, has done a splendid job of disentangling some of the elements by way of a so-called "Sankey diagram" of Canada's energy flows.
Mr. Keenlyside, accompanied by the splendid pianist Julius Drake, was also in his element in Ravel's "Histoires Naturelles," a song cycle about animals.
Like Tiffany, he made free use of decorative elements found in nature, to equally splendid effect.
But Mr. Schiff fit these curious elements into wondrously lucid contrapuntal structures, like splendid Baroque buildings.
The "atmosphere of growth" element is far more important that I realized when I came up with the First Splendid Truth.
