Sentence examples for splendid scale from inspiring English sources
Hartwell et al. say it is "a church on a splendid scale".
The apartment was splendid in scale, and after Mark Hampton's work there, it looked like it should: a very grand place so Saul's Old Master pictures could be hung properly".
Here the story is illustrated with paintings, maps, navigational aids, antique prints and a splendid 19th-century scale-model of a light galley, with 156 rowers at their oars.
Now Hebden Bridge has built itself a splendid new version, eminently suitable for the twenty-first century, on a scale befitting a picturesque stone-built northern market town.
Perhaps word had not gotten out that in November, Riviera Maya Mexican Cuisine had switched from a takeout stand to a full-scale restaurant in which you could sit and have a splendid meal.
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Filmmakers there were already taking advantage of the splendid opportunities for location shooting, and some (notably D. W. Griffith) were working on an ever-increasing scale.
These two, though, bottled it: "Woody and I took a look at the rather challengingly splendid specimens on the table before us, considered for a moment the slightly more modest scale of our own endowments, and said, 'Hmmm.
He has scaled great rocks to meet his love, rambled in darkened environs and ascended to splendid castles so he may finally merge with the missing chord of his life -- Jill.
