Sentence examples for splendid volume of from inspiring English sources

And for sheer visual pleasure you won't do better than this splendid volume of close-up color photographs of patterning in Mughal art from the 16th to 19th centuries.

Their friendship (immortalized in a splendid volume of letters that has clearly served as one of Ms. von Trotta's sources) is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German.

And Hare is not the only person to note a Wildean spirit in the prose of the actor's own two splendid volumes of autobiography – "the same heroic cheerfulness in the face of disaster", as the dramatist puts it.

Separately only in principle; there is by now no way quite to sunder them, though Boswell scholars -- mainly Frederick A. Pottle -- have issued 12 splendid volumes of his journals, while Johnson scholars labor to free, as they put it, the Doctor's voice from the voice that Boswell gave him.

As we struggle in a rising tide of first world war books, seize this splendid volume to stay afloat.

That was the unlikely cross-pollination at the heart of so many of the classics which are so rightly celebrated in this splendid volume.

In the 9th century a still elegant style was used for both patristic and classical works in splendid volumes destined for the imperial library or for presentation copies, such as the copy of Gregory of Nazianzus (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris) made for the emperor Basil I between 879 and 883.

As Robert Caro wrote in the third volume of his splendid Johnson biography, L.B.J., before the assassination, was about to be drawn into deeply embarrassing scandals connected to his protégé Bobby Baker, a former Senate page who had become suspiciously rich while serving as the secretary to the Senate majority.

Century: 1910 is the first instalment of the final volume of Moore and O'Neill's splendid comic-book trilogy, which pulls characters from literature and mythology into a sly and often grotesque postmodern waltz.

By then, it will be as long as the splendid three-volume autobiography of Welles's closest associate and subsequent adversary, John Houseman, who figures so prominently in The Road to Xanadu.

A volume of Brassaï photographs.