Sentence examples for splendid past from inspiring English sources

Another such museum is the National Architecture and Urban Life, preserving Gyumri's splendid past with city replicas, sampling of multitude of trades, and prosperity of its opulent middle-class family life enjoyed in the 1800's Alexandropol.

Germany is concerned with Turkey, not for her splendid past and future, but for her miserable present; for Turkey--as she is, and only as she is--is a vital chequer on the chess-board where Germany has been playing her game of world power, or "des staatlich-machtlichen Interessens," as Dr. Wiedenfeld would say.

Have a splendid Easter weekend.

He was splendid yesterday after Strauss lost what was decreed an important toss.

The Cranford Rose Garden has looked splendid this year, and in the warm damp days it positively pulsed with fragrance.

If his regular and reserve pinots made from the splendid 2007 vintage are indicators, he's sitting pretty.

Also sceduled are plantation oyster roasts, on March 27 and April 4 and 12, at the splendid 1783 Drayton Hall plantation.

As Richard Ellmann's splendid 1959 biography points out, James Joyce was a strict guardian of his own image.

There is a memorable line at the end of "Call Northside 777," a splendid 1948 film based on a true story.

Vincenzo Visco, deputy finance minister in Romano Prodi's centre-left government in charge of collecting taxes, had a splendid 2007.

"When I was with her I was never whole," Osborne wrote in a notebook entry, reproduced in John Heilpern's splendid 2006 biography.