Sentence examples for splendid words from inspiring English sources
"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.
This was so that they could become – that splendid word – apotropaic.
It's also a splendid word to add to one's vocabulary, to be rolled out on an appropriate occasion!
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.
With a bitter comic touch, it focusses on the question of who participated in the uprising and who didn't (the answer comes in terms of that most splendid of words, conscience); what remains of that former regime after its fall; and the challenge, to authentic opponents of the dictatorial regime, that is posed, in a freer society, by its unreconstructed supporters.
November 3rd Splendid news.
"A Splendid Exchange" is a splendid book.
