Sentence examples for splendid introduction from inspiring English sources

Presented in five Acts, it flows along seamlessly and provides a splendid introduction.

That movie remains an ineffaceable offering of childhood terrors and pleasures — almost an awakening of the imagination itself — and a splendid introduction to film musicals, too.

The first posthumous performance took place at the British Library with Melvyn Bragg taking her place in presiding over the evening and reading her splendid introduction to the life and work of WH Auden.

For nonobsessives, the Soundies set is a splendid introduction to Mr. King's work, although there are a few too many novelty tunes and most of the best material is crowded together on the first disk.

So here is a splendid introduction to the world of wild greens — dandelions and chicories; lamb's quarters; nettles; wild mustards — all of it generally more nutritious than anything available for retail sale, and just as delicious as when Euell Gibbons first started hustling this line during the hippie years.

John Lawton's stylish spy thriller THEN WE TAKE BERLIN (Atlantic Monthly, $26) is a splendid introduction to John Wilfrid (Wilderness) Holderness, born a Cockney guttersnipe, trained in various criminal enterprises by his grandfather and transformed into a British intelligence operative during World War II.

Both films are being shown as a double feature that is an excellent introduction to this filmmaker's work and a beguiling companion to Joss Whedon's splendid screen adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing".

It's a disarming introduction to the splendid roar of "Ganesha," a six-bar blues pitched in B-flat.

(Johnson) 'Ken Price: Zoo' (closes on Friday) This small, quirky show of works on paper and ceramic cups mostly from the 1960s is the perfect introduction to the splendid survey of Price's radiantly colored ceramic sculpture at the Met and his efforts on paper at the Drawing Center.

(Smith) Galleries: 57th Street 'Ken Price: Zoo' (through next Friday) This small, quirky show of works on paper and ceramic cups mostly from the 1960s is the perfect introduction to the splendid survey of Price's radiantly colored ceramic sculpture at the Met and his efforts on paper at the Drawing Center.

Or so says Judith Schalanksy in the introduction to her charming, spooky, and splendid "Atlas of Remote Islands Fiftyy Islands I have Never Set Foot On and Never Will," a cartography and history of isolated landmasses which came out yesterday.