Sentence examples for splendid old from inspiring English sources

Like so many splendid old things, the pipe organ faces an uncertain future.

It is like stepping into a splendid old pub in the Irish countryside.

The journalist walked around the splendid old colonial building, knocking on some of the doors, but there was no answer.

Last week, more than 1,000 religious activists gathered in a splendid old one in Washington, DC, to talk politics.

The grimly efficient Judge Joseph Teresi presided, in a splendid old chamber with a cut-glass chandelier — but the trial had a second august presence as well.

La Fenice, the splendid old theatre of Venice, had to be rebuilt after a notorious act of arson destroyed the extant building in 1996.

Here, Antonioni pins his characters against settings that are splendid and old, such as paintings, wall hangings, sumptuous villas, ornate sculptures, and primordial farmhouses — artifacts from a classic age of enduring accomplishments that his young wanderers can hardly aspire to.

These ancient treasures, together with historic photographs of the major excavations, aerial panoramas of splendid sites, old watercolors and lithographs, and 19th-century architectural renderings, are enough to leave a deep impression on anyone with a drop of philhellenic blood.

The town has many charms, including 7,000 acres of open space (40percentt of the town's total acreage), three reservoirs with splendid vistas, old stone walls that once served as farming fences, winding roads that are used as much by horses as by cars, and a cemetery rumored to be inhabited by a ghost known as the White Lady.

Here, it is the building that houses the collection, rather than the collection itself, that is the chief exhibit, for this is perhaps the most splendid of old Plovdiv's konaks, which are generally notable for the painted decoration of their exteriors.

London money is now being lavished on Cromer, a Victorian seaside resort with a splendid pier, old-fashioned amusements and several fine secondhand bookshops (particularly Much Binding on Church Street).