Sentence examples for splendid given from inspiring English sources

If you're going to call yourself Future, you'd better have at least a tenuous grasp on modernity, and with his distinctive rap style allied to cutting-edge beats, Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn – for such is Future's rather splendid given name – certainly fulfils that requirement.

Her natural ebullience still drives the splendid Give the People What They Want, a hook-laden affair keeping up the high standard set by I Learned the Hard Way and 2011's punchy Soul Time!, as good an R&B album as any in recent years.

"They've done this 99 times," Mr. Kilby said gruffly at a splendid reception given last Thursday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which actually chooses the winners in physics, chemistry and economics.

Another splendid work given by a different donor is a pair of figure groups dating from 1717 by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi that derive from the classical myths of Jupiter's loves: "Leda and the Swan With Cupid," and "Ganymede and the Eagle With Cupid and a Dog".

So perhaps it's better to say that it would not do badly in Spain, either: the assortment and quality of the tapas are splendid and, given the sheer number of dishes, the service, though hectic, is reliable; almost always, food arrives quickly.

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove was a brilliant dissection of the folly of nuclear deterrence marked by Peter Seller's bravura performance in three roles and the splendid names given to the characters -- from Generals Buck Turgidson and Jack D. Ripper to Major Bat Guano and Dr. Strangelove himself.

Goosen was not complaining, after his splendid round gave him a chance to win his second Open.

Fadime Tiskaya's splendid bake gives Yotam Ottolenghi's superlative quince poached in pomegranate juice a run for its money, and I didn't think that was possible.

The splendid Denis O'Hare gives Simon's lacklustre book an eccentric wallop, too; his neurotic Oscar Lindquist, who loves and then leaves the tart with a heart, is at once vivid and poignant.

As these gifted, needy, sometimes hilarious misfits learn to live together (or don't), Mr. Bockley, Mr. Kahane and the splendid cast give us privileged access to their rooms, their works, their hearts.

But they contain many, many lines of great beauty, and the 130-page selection in this handsome, splendid volume gives us a perfectly good idea of what they're like (although I looked for some of the more contentious lines and couldn't find them).