Sentence examples for splendid objects from inspiring English sources
He liked to live with splendid objects: silver ewers, carved ivory sculptures, enameled portraits, gilded candlesticks, fabulous tapestries and floral rugs.
The 40 splendid woven objects of silk, cotton, raffia and bark from the last 120 years are combined with artifacts and period photographs from the museum's renowned Eliot Elisofon collection.
Most of them were built to dazzle the incredibly rich who would then fork over money and commission their creators to build more such splendid automated objects.
Almost all of the 350 objects in this splendid and rigorous exhibition are straight from China.
Almost all of the 350 objects in this splendid and rigorous exhibition are straight from China; a few were unearthed as recently as last year.
Splendid Entities: 25 Years of Objects by Phyllis Green | The first large-scale survey to present the innovative sculptures of Los Angeles based artist Phyllis Green, Splendid Entities highlights the important contribution Green has made to art and craft for more than two decades.
The exquisite craftsmanship of these objects testify, as do the splendid low reliefs of the tombs, to the high development of the arts and crafts of the period.
And several of the most striking objects from that show, including a splendid silver ewer -- Sasanian in shape, Greco-Roman in decoration, found in China -- are in this one, too.
In that case the world will contain no facts or propositions, but just objects and properties hanging loose in splendid isolation from one another, a dispensation which looks suspiciously like an unacceptable Kantian transcendental idealism.
Richard House's splendid The Kills was a potentially daunting 1,000-page 1,000-pagethe flesh; objecteen, in rose up and absorbed the reader without making their wrists ache.
