Sentence examples for splendid young man from inspiring English sources
"He was a very, very splendid young man," said Mr Dunne.
It's possible that I just wanted to offer my condolences and tell them that their son sounded like a splendid young man.
Vasily Vladimirovich Karatayev, "a splendid young man – almost our only decent neighbour", had come by one evening to say goodbye to Turgenev before leaving for the front.
Having the premonition that he might not return, the "splendid young man" handed Turgenev a diary containing the intimate record of his love affair with a woman who had at first reciprocated Karatayev's affections but later gave her heart to another man, a Bulgarian revolutionary.
The Whitby barks, constantly working North Sea waters off a dangerous and ill-marked lee shore, offered Cook splendid practical training: the young man who learned his seamanship there had little to fear from any other sea.
That nearby attraction presented a splendid business opportunity for an enterprising young man.
Bernal is splendid as the tongue-tied, indecisive young man who is a kind of otherworldly superstar in his sleeping life, and Gainsbourg (daughter of late singer Serge and chanteuse/actress Jane Birkin) excels too as the object of his affection.
Mr. Rostropovich, now 75 and currently celebrating with a series of international appearances, ceded Sunday's solo part to a splendid young cellist, Denis Shapovalov, but it was for the older man that the piece was written.
The king has the young man brought from the river, dressed in a splendid suit of clothes, and seated in the coach with his daughter, who falls in love with him at once.
Phineas Miller, a young man of Whitney's age, Connecticut-born and Yale-educated, managed Mulberry Grove, Greene's splendid plantation.
