Sentence examples for splendid historical from inspiring English sources

In "Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art," a splendid historical survey at the Museum of Modern Art, the most beautiful work, for me, is "Vertical-Horizontal Composition" (1916), a small, framed wool needlepoint tapestry by Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

There have been some splendid historical debuts, including the winner of this year's Crime Writers Associationn historical dagger award, The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson (Hodder & Stoughton): the spellbinding story of a desperate man who must solve a murder to get himself out of jail.

A yogurt in the morning, a yogurt… In "Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art," a splendid historical survey at the Museum of Modern Art, the most beautiful work,… What is left of Thornton Wilder, our only writer to have won a Pulitzer Prize for both drama (twice) and fiction, and at one time… The Richard Burton Diaries, edited by Chris Williams (Yale).

And it can dazzle, as when Joseph returns in glory late in the book, transformed into a true and splendid and historical duke of Egypt.

After all, when America's richest families are gathered in "splendid isolation," historical things are bound to happen.

The second installment in this splendid, sharp-clawed historical trilogy is even better than the first.

His works usually are huge, vastly peopled canvases depicting allegorical, biblical, or historical subjects in splendid colour and set in a framework of classicizing Renaissance architecture.

Like "Mad Men," "Downton" was a historical theme park of splendid interiors, exquisite domestic details and costumes to die for — with characters just modern enough to resonate.

The Parthenon was restored to artistic and historical importance thanks to the splendid drawings of Western artists.

We will much miss her splendid memory for family as well as historical anecdotes so reflective of her delight in life at large.

Worth doing not just for this historical resonance but for the splendid emptiness – more plateau than peak – and the highest terrain in England outside Cumbria.