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In his splendid liner notes for a 2008 Mail on Sunday compilation, Bowie talked of using "a little-used word for each song" – our phrase is from Bowie's reworking of such sci-fi novels as Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race.
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Truly a splendid life.
Later, as Rose goes in to dinner, one of Cal's fat-cat friends commends him on his fiancée as if she, too, were a prized object: "Congratulations, Hockley — she's splendid!" Cameron underscored the parallels between the young woman and the liner in other ways.
| Against all this expensive grandeur, Swann holds an impressive sale of travel posters (Nov. 12) that includes splendid advertisements for the tempting journeys to be found on French ocean liners, German zeppelins, and British railways.
Vernon Davis looked splendid in a black shirt, black tie, gray blazer and diamond earrings, but Davis could probably look good wearing a trashcan liner.
Absolutely splendid.
Splendid stuff.
How Splendid!
Their kit was splendid.
THE timing was splendid.
November 3rd Splendid news.
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