Sentence examples for splendid hand from inspiring English sources

The Cornetto Eater does not walk into a cathedral and marvel at the atmosphere of wonder: the Cornetto Eater looks at the columns, at the stones, examines the tiles, runs a splendid hand over the wooden pews.

And his achievement has seldom sounded fresher, richer, more universal or more modern than it did last week in Mr. Schiff's splendid hands.

Set at the margins of the river bank and in the fine compositions of hanging gardens, the smaller plants of the Narrows showcase the splendid gardening hand of nature.

Having the premonition that he might not return, the "splendid young man" handed Turgenev a diary containing the intimate record of his love affair with a woman who had at first reciprocated Karatayev's affections but later gave her heart to another man, a Bulgarian revolutionary.

It is an image of physical liberation and surreal joy, which includes the splendid accident of a hand jutting into the frame.

He had dirtied his hands in doing so, and there was on the wall a splendid print of one whole hand.

They should have shaken his hand for the splendid game, then shaken their heads and told him that they disapproved of his dangerous behavior.

It also let pass without challenge a frankly insane franchise that cut out the third largest Scottish city on earth (London), and handed it to (splendid, but quite possibly over-optimistic) schoolchildren.

A few more: Dennis Adams's splendid video, in which he hands out stills from a film about a girl being chased through an orphanage, mixes suspense and humor in a way even Hitchcock might envy.

Keeping to it throughout the election campaign, with unemployment still rising, would have handed the opposition a splendid stick with which to beat him.

Traditionally, this went hand in hand with a splendid disregard for "realistic" casting, meaning voluptuous (starving) Mimis and magnificently orotund Isoldes – rather a progressive blindness to body shape.