Sentence examples for splendid shades from inspiring English sources

Most of these have flowers that are open faced, upright and in splendid shades of yellow, orange, red, pink, white and often blends of those colors.

It is an improbable love song to a plane tree, with Serse extolling the comforts of its splendid shade.

Anita Rachvelishvili, though ultimately a splendid Carmen, shaded flat a couple of times in her Habanera.

Writer went over to Engine Company 65 to see the apparatus, which she thought looked splendid; a shade lighter than lime green.

In Mr. Muti's exacting hands the accompaniment was deftly balanced and elegantly shaded, with splendid contributions on flute, bassoon and harp.

Here are the freshest ways to lighten up in blue. 1. Splendid reinvents navy in six subtly varying shades; styles include supersheer cap-sleeve henleys, ribbed tanks, striped V-necks and crew-neck waffle-weave thermals ($48 to $55 at Barneys New York).

Certainly she and everyone else is put in the shade by Rufus Sewell on splendid form as the villainous Count Adhemar.

"For 338 paragraphs he painted a splendid picture, delineated the light and the shade, and the glowing colours in it," said James Callaghan in the Commons debate on the Franks report.

It was sporting its splendid breeding plumage: the breast suffused a delicate shade of pink, and the head appearing almost blue.

She has barely finished one number in Lonny Price's splendid revival of the 1963 musical "110 in the Shade" (a Roundabout Theatre production at Studio 54) before she's on to the next series of glittering moments that make her Lizzie Curry such a full-blooded creature.

The stark and atmospheric illustrations by Brown ("Children Make Terrible Pets"), working exclusively in shades of gray save the garish orange of the vegetables in question, are simply splendid.