Sentence examples for splendid invention from inspiring English sources
"Having said that," Mr. Cronkite added, "the exit poll in its other purpose, which is to determine why people voted, is a splendid invention".
On-board computers enable this splendid invention to seek the optimal jet stream winds and adjust vertical stabilizers to maximize wind turbine capacity.
Nabokov wrote of the game: "Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterise all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity and splendid insincerity".
The buildings are glass and steel, and sleek, in the modern federal style, and the place has a sort of splendid isolation about it which goes nicely with being the city of invention.
Every year spring feels like a splendid, novel thing; the Times writes about sidewalk seating as if it were a new invention.
Some ancient Creed fragrances, such as Royal English Leather, have survived largely unchanged, though very many of the current range, like the intoxicatingly splendid Royal Water (one of the Millésimes – extra fine, highly concentrated products) are Olivier's own inventions.
The entire enterprise was the invention of that cheerful rogue of the Broadway scene Alexander H. Cohen, who saw it (correctly) as a splendid means of attracting national attention to the Broadway theater.
