This I know from Richard Tomlinson's splendid book Amazing Grace, which recounts that Grace's wounded response to the Gloucestershire committee's inquiry as to whether he actually intended to play any cricket was to finish by saying the affection in which he held the county of his birth was not matched by that for the committee, which as a body he held in great contempt.
Father Kleinsorge woke up about six the morning the bomb was dropped, and half an hour later — he was a bit tardy because of his sickness — he began to read Mass in the mission chapel, a small Japanese-style wooden building which was without pews, since its worshippers knelt on the usual Japanese matted floor, facing an altar graced with splendid silks, brass, silver, and heavy embroideries.
Despite its moderato tempo marking, the cool, stern first movement has restless energy and startling shifts of harmony, conveyed with articulate grace in this splendid performance.
Drawing on the 15th chapter of the Apostle Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, the archbishop wrote, "The flesh he assumed in the incarnation, although sinless, was like our own, susceptible to death; the flesh that he raised in his three-day resurrection is splendid and powerful, for he graced the perishable with imperishability and the corruptible with incorruption".
My grandmother, my mother, my aunts and cousins, my daughters and now my granddaughters have all imbued me with a splendid and embracing love for feminine grace and power.
The country has gained the most splendid and decisive Victory that has ever graced the naval annals of England; but it has been dearly purchased.
Josep Puig i Cadafalch's ornate Palau del Baro de Quadres is at Avinguda Diagonal 373; Lluis Domenech i Montaner's splendid Casa Fuster (now the Casa Fuster Hotel) graces Passeig de Gracia at number 132.
I stood on the stage and conducted the encore – funny sight!" With characteristic grace, the composer wrote to Kipling, "Your splendid words went with a swing and enthusiasm which even my music cannot stifle".
But it's also because of four splendid performances, chief among them Crawford, who plays Susan with assurance, grace and empathy.
