"splendid turn" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe a situation where someone has done something impressive or that has had a favorable outcome. For example, "The team's splendid turn of events in the fourth quarter resulted in an unexpected victory."
Happy to be pedestrians again, we carried our bags up to a top-floor room in the city's splendid, turn-of-the-century Grand Hotel Union.
Mixing its ennui with a vitality and underlying sense of defiance, this very likable melancholy rom- non?)-com boasts splendid turom- non Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, between whom the sparks (hostile, passionate, dependent) fly with conviction and grace.
But among An Education's eight nominations, how come the splendid supporting turn of Rosamund Pike was about the only category on which the film missed out?
But that hardly excuses the earlier uprisings.Many more popular overthrows that at first seemed splendid have turned out badly.
And the 11 parts of "Paradise Postponed," produced by Jacqueline Davis, are dotted with the kind of splendid acting turns that are a peculiar specialty of the British.
Yet Allen doesn't shrink from the implausible — most recently, the splendid "Scoop" turns on the notion of contact with the dead by means of a magician's innocent and unassuming sleight-of-hand (and the scenes in which the dead themselves plough the ether in a ship and make their appearance during the magician's act are droll gems).
The film's actual church and adjoining manse are splendid, spacious turn-of-the-century structures in Yonkers, N.Y., with miles of oak woodwork, paneling and carved detailing.
Among other splendid solo-turns from within the orchestra, one ought to single out those of clarinetist Lorin Levee, who delivered the right amounts of suggestiveness and poetry to the opening moments of, respectively, "Rhapsody in Blue" and the Sibelius symphony.
Later, there was another splendid save to turn away the substitute Jordon Ibe's rising shot but it would be misleading to dwell too much on these chances because the truth for Liverpool, as Brendan Rodgers acknowledged afterwards, was that they did not use the ball well and left Benteke too isolated.
