Sentence examples for splendid essay from inspiring English sources

You can get an idea of just how rich and varied the references in V are from this splendid essay.

Richard Taruskin, in a splendid essay on the opera, speaks of the Old Believers "stepping out of history and into eternity".

I hope you had the chance to read and reread Dudley Clendinen's splendid essay, "The Good Short Life," in The Times's Sunday Review section.

Steve Davis Sheffield What a splendid essay from Nick Cohen's book Waiting for the Etonians ("Why I blame the left for Britain's financial ruin", 25 January).

In a splendid essay in the New Statesman, David Marquand tells us that the Welsh word for England means "the lost land" – lost to the Celts, that is, when the Anglo-Saxons drove them out.

It's a splendid essay and a nuanced tribute, but as Franzen wrestles with this issue of death and survival in the thin air of high-altitude literary endeavour, something in the British reader's soul starts to recoil.

Blair is clearly still worried about what people think of those wars, to the extent that he essayed the splendid gambit of suggesting that it is still too soon to judge that they weren't, after all, perfectly brilliant ideas.

Correction to this articleIN THE mid-1980s Rolling Stone magazine published an essay by P.J. O'Rourke, a conservative American humorist, with the splendid title "Among the Euro-Weenies".

Actually, I ask this question, which may seem out of the blue, because of the splendid piece Oliver Sacks contributed to our paper on turning 80. Gail: A lovely essay, and given the amount of time it spent at the top of our most e-mailed list, I have to conclude that we have a ton of readers in their late 70s.

The twin essays on Bentham and Coleridge show Mill's powers at their splendid best and indicate very clearly the new spirit that he tried to breathe into English radicalism.

Very beautifully, "Gilead" becomes less a novel than a species of religious writing, and Ames's entries a recognizable American form, the Emersonian essay, poised between homily and home, religious exercise and naturalism: This morning a splendid dawn passed over our house on its way to Kansas.