Djuna wrote a play that she showed to T. S. Eliot; he told her that it contained the most splendid, archaic language he had ever had the pleasure of reading but that, frankly, he couldn't make head or tail of its drama.
"What a splendid speech!" he said.
He is a lustrously polished stand-up comic, political commentator and topical humorist, and, when the audience's eyes are sufficiently clear of laughter-induced tears to savor the expansive vocabulary of his body language, a splendid and nimble mime and mimic (1 30).
He is a lustrously polished stand-up comic, political commentator, topical humorist and, when the audience's eyes are clear of laughter-induced tears to savor the expansive vocabulary of his body language, a splendid and nimble mime and mimic (1 30).
On the contrary, he contends, it is developing into a splendid new medium that shows language users at their most inventive, adapting a variety of styles for a variety of purposes, some formal, some highly informal.
But once the story begins, her rendering of the novelist's language and style is simply splendid.
Fortunately, nothing can obliterate the magnificence of the Russian architecture, the splendid turrets and towers, the richness of the language, or the warmth and spirit of the Russians themselves.
Reading the church building itself as a text, she renders its language of marble and mosaic into a splendid narrative whose subject is how an architectural space can both express and recall epiphany.
Lord Crickhowell, who as Nicholas Edwards was Welsh Secretary in two Thatcher governments, told the BBC News website: "He was a splendid Welshman and made great contributions to the Welsh language, apart from anything else.
He also became respected abroad; a 1902 English language book edited by Charles Dudley Warner noted that "the splendid exuberance of his thought and fancy ranks him among the great poets of the nineteenth century".
