Sentence examples for splendid figures from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

I suspect buzz will swirl more around artists like Mr. Mueck, whose crouching boy is too much like a Disney character but whose smaller sculptured figures seem splendid; Paul Pfeiffer, whose tiny videos are pretty much the same each time but are still winners; Chris Cunningham, Stan Douglas, Vanessa Beecroft and others already more connected to the Anglo-American art market.

Gen. Georges Boulanger cut a fine figure; he looked splendid in uniform, and magnificent on horseback.

From the moment he resumed on 54, the England wicketkeeper's timing was superb and he played some splendid off-side strokes.Prior reached three figures when he drove Michael Beer through the covers for four.