Sentence examples for was less splendid from inspiring English sources

The customary book was less splendid, however.

The skeptical British philosopher A. J. Ayer has written about an encounter that was less splendid; it "slightly weakened his conviction" that his death would be the end of him, "though I continue to hope that it will be".

"THE market has given unusual attention to the report of the Deutsche Bank," noted The Economist of March 5th 1904, "owing to the splendid results announced".* This year the Deutsche Bank will announce its results (expected to be less than splendid) on February 5th.

The design here is no match for Apple's offering and the keys, though comfy, are also less splendid and the whole thing feels a little bit floppity.

The paintings have spurred on splendid poetry but are less obvious as a basis for ballet – Diana and her comely entourage could not look less like ballerinas.

She and Alford are splendid cooks — which doesn't always follow from being splendid cookbook writers — but if dinner on Henry Street is "less good" sometimes, she says, "it's not the end of everything".

Less splendid, to modern eyes, are the scenes of real whales being killed in its hunting scenes.

One might quibble with the wines comparing one to another, but each was no less than splendid.

Museum of Fakes Altogether less disturbing is the splendid Musée de la Contrefaçon, over on the other side of town, in the swanky 16th arrondissement.

Colossal sculpture, which reached its apogee in the reign of Ramses II, was used to splendid, and perhaps less bombastic, effect by Amenhotep III.

Prior was particularly splendid.