Sentence examples for splendid word from inspiring English sources

This was so that they could become – that splendid word – apotropaic.

A splendid word, one might say — although there was some dissent on that point in the Times's pages.

But my use last week of the splendid word "kudos" has prompted Karl Sabbagh to send me the following glorious garnering from Google.

The correspondence with Mary Hutchinson makes clear that Maria was not merely complicit but actively 'omnifutuent', to borrow her husband's splendid word for bisexuality.

"They don't say so splendid words," he said with a light in his eyes.

I stood on the stage and conducted the encore – funny sight!" With characteristic grace, the composer wrote to Kipling, "Your splendid words went with a swing and enthusiasm which even my music cannot stifle".

They must be real programmes, for unless we can persuade this civil society to take on responsibility for itself, if we, the EU do not help, then all the splendid words spoken in this Parliament are useless.

The words are splendid, but words do not heal illnesses or build houses.

Some of those with Yom Kippur shpilkes, a splendid Yiddish word for a state of agitation, were similarly bent out of shape because President Obama did not meet with the visiting Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Along the way, this splendid (a word he professes to disdain) comedian exposes the folly of man (including himself), rails against fate, marvels at fools, experiences betrayal and everywhere finds fodder for his original humor.

In the course of a report in Le Figaro, by Léna Lutaud et Marie-Noëlle Tranchant, about the increasing rental and purchase in France of classic movies in digital form (whether as video-on-demand or downloads), a splendid, eerie word to refer to the phenomenon: "la dématérialisation": Dematerialization presents a window of opportunity to expand the public and to create new modes of consumption.