Sentence examples for splendid ones from inspiring English sources

"Settin' the Woods on Fire" (the very title seems a bit glib, to me) is like the other films in this series -- on Eisenhower, on Nixon, on the Kennedys, to name several splendid ones I've seen -- trenchant, compelling and mostly accurate.

In the first two pavilions, which take art up to about 1900, there are sentimental genre paintings and splendid ones (Richard Caton Woodville's 1848 "War News From Mexico"); facile Impressionist landscapes and earlier works whose robust paint handling almost seem to presage Impressionism (John La Farge's "Hollyhocks" from around 1864-65).

Bona fide westerns in which female characters draw guns are still considered aberrations, albeit splendid ones such as Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), in which the bloke in the title plays second fiddle to Joan Crawford as imperious saloon-keeper Vienna, locked in a feud with vindictive rancher Mercedes McCambridge, even scarier here than as the voice of Pazuzu in The Exorcist.

I say, no more so than the splendid ones we secured to replace all those dictators who started World War II.

The building has belonged to the Bouglione family since 1934, who put on splendid one-ring circuses every winter.

On the next play, Domenik Hixon caught a 22-yard touchdown pass — but only after fumbling it and making a splendid one-handed grab on his way to the ground.

Nasri floats in a free kick from the left, Mexes rises and gets a lot of power on the header but it is a splendid one-handed save from Pyatov.

In this splendid one-hour play, a tall tale set in Appalachia, a father embarks on an Odysseus-like trek to attend his daughter's wedding.

Goldman et al make a rather splendid one-paragraph summary of what may have been an RNA world dependent on inorganic catalysts and prebiotic polypeptides, and that protein synthesis first evolved in an RNA world.

The image is a splendid one.

Nevertheless, the evening is a splendid one.