Sentence examples for splendid war from inspiring English sources

One-third of the poem deals with Arthurian matter, but Lawamon's is not a high chivalric treatment: mass war is the staple, with Arthur the splendid war leader of Germanic tradition.

His best poetry often blended the occasional with the universal, as in "Talking Myself to Sleep at One More Hilton" and the splendid war poem "On a Photo of Sgt. Ciardi a Year Later".

The narrative moves from a rational, semi-detached opening entitled "A Splendid Little War", through a section depicting the madness of war ("The Officer in Charge of the Dead") to a full-blown nightmare ("In Death's Grey Land") in which the Caputo character is accused of shooting Vietcong suspects and faces a court martial.

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It was, according to Secretary of State John Hay, "a splendid little war".

It was a sparsely populated but superbly sheltered harbor off the Windward Passage until America's "splendid little war" with Spain.

When McKinley was assassinated in 1901, the United States had fought its "splendid little war" against Spain (the phrase was Secretary of State John Hay's) as well as a vicious three-year anti-guerrilla war in the Philippines, and taken possession of a colonial empire.

And for the contractors, euphimism for mercenaries, this splendid, little war could mean a new bonanza.

The outcome of President Barack Obama's "splendid little war" in Libya continues to unravel.

There is congressional support for Kosovo's membership, a step backed by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who supported her husband's earlier "splendid little war".

** The Saudi Admission of Their Use of Cluster Bombs In Their Anything But Splendid Little War in Yemen, against an Iranian-backed coalition headed by a decades-long American ally, is a big problem for Trump.