Now, after Mr. Manry's splendid feat, we feel sure that there will be a stiffening of backbones around the copydesks everywhere-a certain rake to the angle of the eyeshade, a certain new snap to the snip of the scissors.
But they are not alone on the land and the story of their struggle viewed in such splendid isolation feels, to say the least, shortsighted.
The system differ, but each in its way is a splendid… We feel you ought to know about the huge lemon exhibited at the Flower Show, labelled: "Pollinated by the Exhibitor".
I felt splendid – like my dreams had come true.
After a few months of splendid isolation, Byrd felt able to draw some conclusions.
After a splendid lunch, I felt I had to ask of the great chef how he had made it: 'Well, you know, almond cream, a little chocolate and some puff pastry.' 'Oui, chef,' I thought.
In conclusion, he raised the Northern Ireland pilot scheme, saying: "It would be splendid if you felt it might be possible to replicate this exploratory integrated project on the mainland, perhaps as a choice pilot?" Johnson replied that the primary care trusts funding the homeopathy hospitals felt "they have to take into account the clinical effectiveness of any treatments they commission".
Would that the process by which a newly "mellow" Cameron coaxed virtual performances from his "Avatar" actors were anything that splendid: "To help them feel an explosion," Keegan writes, "he boomed a noise over amplifiers, threw foam particles at them and whacked them with a padded jousting pole".
"When I walk into the club, the choice of so many splendid available women makes me feel liberated," he said.
I was weirdly adept at cutting a pineapple, and doing so made me feel like a splendid tropical queen with no one to witness my splendor.
