Lest that sound boastful, the sole reason I bake splendid pies is that my mother bakes splendid pies.
One reason is that Constantin Brancusi's "Une muse," important and splendid as it may be, is not unique.
Performance of the Week goes to their Australian bowler Timm van der Gugten, who plays his international cricket (if, perhaps, for no other reason than that splendid name) for the Netherlands.
In the role of the Oakland Athletics' general manager Billy Beane, Brad Pitt — an admirable actor who is at once bigger and a little smaller than life (that's the secret to his charm, to the humanity of his swagger, and the reason for his splendid incarnation of Benjamin Button) — blossoms, doing something he has never done as well: speaking.
Fraser "does a splendid job of explaining the reasons for Christian Science's rise and fall," Philip Zaleski wrote here in 1999.
So "A Thousand Splendid Suns," by Khaled Hosseini, gave us a reason to talk about literacy in Afghanistan.
That, and CNN (and Fox News) broadcasts in splendid high-definition, unlike MSNBC, if you need another reason to take a peek this evening.
Three of Cestrians crewmen died in the attack and, according to R. H. Gibson and Maurice Prendergast, "splendid discipline" among the embarked troops was the sole reason that none were lost.
There is a reason the rich come here: Courchevel is a splendid place, a true alpine wonderland, a canted plinth of pine-treed beauty above which rises the stunning, coruscated high peaks of the Massif de la Vanoise.
There is, on the other hand, no reason whatsoever for the existence of Ms. Lang's "Splendid Isolation III".
