Sentence examples for splendid figure from inspiring English sources

A vivacious redhead, with a splendid figure, Mme.

President Sebastian Piñera, an outgoing 61-year-billionaire, has cut a splendid figure to his countrymen and millions of others round the world at the Mina San José: Chile had pulled off the greatest rescue since Noah's ark.

He was a splendid figure, the very image of Charles Laughton, and his delight at seeing our modest parcel was only matched when a pair of Queen's Messengers arrived from Peking with diplomatic bags containing lettuce from Hong Kong and a couple of cases of Beaujolais.

Jean Louise's aunt often held up Cousin Joshua to her as a family example not lightly to be discountenanced: he was a splendid figure of a man, he was a poet, he was cut off in his prime, and Jean Louise would do well to remember that he was a credit to the family.

Even "Star Trek" lost its two awards, for sound mixing and editing, to "The Hurt Locker," although at least both of those were collected, back-to-back, by a frail and splendid figure with flowing ginger-blond tresses, milky complexion, and unplaceable accent, whose very presence gave comfort to connoisseurs of the extraterrestrial.

A splendid figure, it would seem, who could answer the warrior nostalgia of young men for an unconquerable manhood that doesn't need city-leveling ordnance to make its way through the world, only bare hands and feet and martial wit.

Thus wrote Francis Galton, one of those splendid figures of Victorian Britain, in "The Art of Travel" which ran through eight editions in the second half of the 19th century.

The splendid figures of a nude man and woman carved by a Mangbetu artist of Congo announce their difference loud and clear from across the room: their genitals are carefully highlighted with paint.

The male protagonists are splendid figures who die heroic deaths, while the women are strong characters who engineer much of the action".

The outstanding survival from the end of the century is the splendid series of figures representing the descent of Christ from Adam, made for the choir clerestory windows (c. 1178 1200) of Canterbury Cathedral, which resemble the Prophet windows in Saint-Remi at Reims.

The effects serve sharply limned figures whose sculptural roundedness, warm flesh, splendid raiment, and distinctive personalities leap to the eye.