Sentence examples for splendid small from inspiring English sources

Standout appetizers included a tangle of soft-shell crabs with splendid small morels and jewel-cut tomatoes; mussels suspended in thick sweet cream, perfumed with saffron; and cold briny lobster attended by tender pickled vegetables.

"Sculpture in the Age of Donatello," a splendid small show of early-Renaissance Florentine works at the Museum of Biblical Art, on Broadway at Sixty-first Street, impelled me to haul down my very long-neglected copy of the Good Book.

They are elegant applied wrought-bronze acanthus leaves, which can be seen only by the maintenance man who climbs a ladder to change the bulbs, plus a splendid small bronze-ribbed dome (with curved glass panels) as a transition between the primary glazed top of the light fixture and its bronze suspension chain (each link of which is decoratively designed).

The steering wheel is a splendid piece, small and thickly padded under supple leather, and it both tilts and telescopes.

The splendid little plants take hold quickly and spread easily over the smallest spaces.

She enjoyed splendid health but small setbacks alarmed her.

The ground was full and purring, empty areas only in the new Warner stand, which is under construction, in front of which sat, in splendid isolation, a small block of members, as if the Halle Choir had arrived in London a month early for their Albert Hall Proms concert.

On the morning of 9 January, it passes extraordinarily close to fainter Saturn – a splendid sight through a small telescope.

It has some of Britain's best art museums – including the splendid Ashmolean Museum and the small but masterpiece-laden Christchurch Picture Gallery – and most seductive architecture.

At Behr's small but splendid camp beside the Mara River, called Olonana, there were just two tourists -- and they were there by sheer chance.

Inside the bag was a press kit of sorts — product information, all neatly wrapped in smooth white envelopes — plus two miniature product samples and a white Splendid T-shirt (size small).