Sentence examples for splendid structure from inspiring English sources

A splendid structure of sweeping steps and marching columns, it evokes the Station that is no more.

During the years that Charlemagne was building his chapel in Aachen, the Moors, who were battling Charlemagne in northern Spain, were also erecting this splendid structure, capable of holding 5,500 people by the time it was completed in 999.

Erdogan and Peres would do well to make a joint visit to this magnificently faded splendid structure and remind themselves that the collision of the culture of their countries, marks some pretty serious co-habitation.

It's not just the architects, whose space-age pods, shimmering blue pools and splendid structures made of glass and steel seem to litter LA, but the starry figures who inhabit them.

Brazil also cherishes numerous splendid structures from its colonial and imperial past, from the tiled houses and ornate churches of Salvador to the palaces and public buildings of Rio de Janeiro.

The historian Ibn Hammad described the palace buildings as high and splendid structures surrounded by gardens and waters.

In 1900 Sather met newly arrived UC President Benjamin Ide Wheeler and negotiated a series of gifts that would ultimately result in a number of endowed chairs — and two splendid physical structures.

The first infirmary (hospital) was opened in 1729, and then a splendid custom-built structure was erected in 1748.

A splendid two-story structure atop a hill beside the campus: nice digs for a college student.

The Great Mosque was a splendid, early Ottoman structure built, as the gravely courteous Turkish imam informed me, in the reign of Sultan Murat II (1421-51).

Akhtar has a splendid command of structure, a fine ear for dialogue, and some personal experience with provocative novels ("American Dervish").