Sentence examples for splendid literary from inspiring English sources

Though not a definitive gathering of Ho's work, Balaban's deft translations are a beautiful and significant contribution to the West's growing awareness of Vietnam's splendid literary heritage.

Sadly the relay route doesn't go past the splendid Literary and Philosophical Society in the city centre where Stephenson announced his invention – an unfortunate oversight by NewcastleGateshead's torch czars, who could have highlighted a small connection with real rather than invented history.

A splendid archive of literary and administrative documents found at Ugarit from this period provides evidence of an early form of alphabetic script, arguably the most important Phoenician contribution to Western civilization.

Thrillingly imagined and beautifully executed, "Bitterblue" stands as a splendid contribution in a long literary tradition.

For Steinbeck fans, a self-guided auto tour of his haunts, real and literary, makes for a splendid afternoon.

A young Englishman in "The Rooftop Dwellers" rather cartoonishly describes the Indian protagonist Moyna's literary magazine as "perfectly splendid, really".

They form a photograph album of America, and in particular of that splendid region, Steinbeck Country, from which countless literary travellers have gratefully sent a postcard home.

Describing it as "splendid", he says it seems to him "the most literary of names".

Piling excellence on excellence, the New Victory is following its splendid presentation of "Arabian Nights" with another eye-catching literary adaptation, "Kwaidan".

"The Mantle of the Prophet" is literary, learned, and deeply felt; the writing is splendid, and the story is an education for the Western reader unaware of the powerful tides of Shi'ite and Persian thought over a period of centuries.

David Riggs manages to write around 400 splendid pages about Elizabethan theatre while only briefly mentioning the favourite literary genius of the western world.