A splendid man, rare to find.
Lake Michigan, with its rather splendid man-made beach, is the chill-out hangout of choice.
Hitler addressed the crowds: "May none of you fail to visit the Glyptothek, for there you will see how splendid man used to be in the beauty of his body… and you will realise that we can speak of progress only when we have not only attained such beauty but even, if possible, when we have surpassed it".
I felt the loss keenly, not only because I was lushly pregnant and felt everything keenly, but also because he was a unique and splendid man.
"He was a very, very splendid young man," said Mr Dunne.
It's possible that I just wanted to offer my condolences and tell them that their son sounded like a splendid young man.
Vasily Vladimirovich Karatayev, "a splendid young man – almost our only decent neighbour", had come by one evening to say goodbye to Turgenev before leaving for the front.
Having the premonition that he might not return, the "splendid young man" handed Turgenev a diary containing the intimate record of his love affair with a woman who had at first reciprocated Karatayev's affections but later gave her heart to another man, a Bulgarian revolutionary.
Its most monumental symbol is the Hoover Dam, which Joan Didion unforgettably described as "a dynamo finally free of man, splendid at last in its absolute isolation, transmitting power and releasing water to a world where no one is".
So like lions with large manes and male peacocks with splendid arrays of feathers, men with big beards must have looked sexy and dangerous to our neolithic ancestors.
