Sentence examples for splendid vista from inspiring English sources

There, he retreated like a monk into a palatial cell, its wide windows serving up a splendid vista of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Benjamin Franklin Parkway provides a splendid vista as it cuts diagonally northwestward from Penn Square through the grid, encircling Logan Square and leading into Fairmount Park.

To the Editor: In her article "In Rome, Doing as Few Romans Do" (June 16), Francine Prose describes the splendid vista of Rome she enjoyed from the terrace of her luxurious room at the Cavalieri Hilton Hotel.

Filled with wildflowers, it opens onto a splendid vista — reddish-brown mountains dotted with green walnut groves and boxy mud-brick villages, farmers tending sheep on distant hills, and Mount Toubkal rising snow-capped and gray-blue in the distance.

In the gorgeous Assembly Chamber, an oculus of unusually transparent water-white glass (regular glass has a slight greenish tint) opens the chamber northward through a diagonal fretwork of tubular-steel supports to a splendid vista of the Tower of London and London Bridge.

Social conflict is for the most part forgotten in the contemplative section, "Splendid Vistas".

7 p.m. 8) STAGE TO STAGE Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (962 Mount Adams Circle; 513-421-3888; whichincyplay.com), wonch won a 2004 Tony Award for best regional theater and celebrates its 50th anniversary next season, offers splendid vistas of Mount Adams and a solid theatergoing experience.

The town has many charms, including 7,000 acres of open space (40percentt of the town's total acreage), three reservoirs with splendid vistas, old stone walls that once served as farming fences, winding roads that are used as much by horses as by cars, and a cemetery rumored to be inhabited by a ghost known as the White Lady.

This is, as it's always been, one of the most splendid vistas in Los Angeles.

The clouds streamed in and rolled out, sometimes obscuring the way for all but a few metres, then parting to reveal a splendid alpine vista or a harrowing plunge where a guardrail should be.

Or you could just take a snack on a drive down River Road (County Route 103) and pull over when you find a vista so splendid that it looks like a scene from a Hudson River School masterpiece.