Sentence examples for splendid event from inspiring English sources

The Olympic Games are a splendid event, but they have never worked for me as a secular religion demanding attention and donations.

But Monkey is sure Sputnik spent all night telling another of its guests, Daily Mail diarist Richard Kay, what a splendid event it was.

SHANGHAI, June 17 -- The National Symphony Orchestra found itself Sunday night at the unlikely venue of a conference-center theater in the dusty midsize city of Xi'an (population 8.5 million), where visiting ensembles the size of the NSO are a rare and rather splendid event.

Having spluttered in outrage at such a suggestion - and slipped off my sparkling jacket, torn up my 45-minute script and put away my unicycle - we proceeded to have a splendid event which could have benefited from an additional half hour.

Bernie Madoff's sentencing was a splendid event, with all parties acting out their pre-ordained roles.

If you can get downtown to the Million Dollar Theatre on Thursday night, you can participate in a splendid event that will help to fund a rebirth of the legendary Angels Flight funicular railway and will screen a little-seen classic Los Angeles noir.

Sandywould later record this moment with a drawing illustrating thejuxtaposition of those two splendid events.

The congress became a splendid social event.

The Chinese exhibition that will be at the Royal Academy until Jan .23rd is a splendid London event that is drawing huge crowds.

By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, December 31 , 1973P. 45 The Chinese exhibition that will be at the Royal Academy until Jan .23rd is a splendid London event that is drawing huge crowds.

14) the Government turned down the offer of the Trade Union Congress leaders to help bring the miners' dispute to an… The Chinese exhibition that will be at the Royal Academy until Jan .23rd is a splendid London event that is drawing huge crowds.