How To Use Splendidly In A Sentence
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The movie is splendidly arrayed visually, but transforms her prim, priggish character and makes her lusty, strong-willed and far too politically progressive for her era.
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For we call viands and ointments fine; and we say we have finely dined, when we have been splendidly entertained.
Symposiacs
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In this respect it has been a splendidly artful chancellorship that has lasted the remarkable length that it has due in large part to our gullibility and our apparent willingness to let him get away with it.
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They walked to the very end of the manor, and entered a huge hall filled with lords and ladies, all dressed splendidly in flowing gowns and silk suits, embroidered with golden designs.
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He sings splendidly and cavorts camply with bravura.
The Sun
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On the stage, Mrs Siddons senior and Mr John Kemble were remarkable for the solemn deliberation of their manner, both in declamation and action, and yet they were splendidly gifted in power.
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The Dresden State Orchestra turns in their usual fine playing here and the Saxon State Opera Chorus sings splendidly, as well.
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He bore in his hand what was called a truncheon, which was a sort of sceptre, very splendidly covered and adorned.
Richard I Makers of History
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There is the grandiosity of that self-description – splendidly undercut by the prosaicness of the "twenty practical actions for happiness", which urges people to hug each other, exercise more often and say thank you more often.
Happiness: When smiling becomes policy | Editorial
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The injection of tricks into this exaggerated style of b-ball works splendidly.
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The old woman dressed even more splendidly.
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The old woman dressed even more splendidly.
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It is an idiotic move that backfires in a splendidly karmic way.
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In this respect it has been a splendidly artful chancellorship that has lasted the remarkable length that it has due in large part to our gullibility and our apparent willingness to let him get away with it.
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From the granite-and-marble statues of Old Testament kings above the main courtyard, to the blue azulejo tiles in the royal apartments (to say nothing of the Titians, El Grecos, and Riberas), the Escorial has borne up splendidly over four centuries.
The Caudillo’s Cloister
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The cavalry regiments have always been splendidly dressed, with the light horse being the most dashing.
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Some comely instinct guided it thitherwards, sometimes staggering low over the water, sometimes flitting splendidly high until distance and the glowing sky absorbed it.
My Tropic Isle
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She encompassed the bold leaps and wide range of the vocal part splendidly - always singing with strongly focused tone and perfect intonation.
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Inside the splendidly appointed church, the bishops took their places in long rows to take part in the ceremony.
Christianity Today
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he did splendidly in the exam
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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A new period of Sumerian florescence, splendidly documented in this exhibition, began.
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The first section of "Eri tu" is rendered in a splendidly firm, strong-lined legato, the words crystal-clear; it comes to an end with a decrescendo and portamento down from the top F on "guisa," a most expressive turn and acciaccatura on "primo," and a fermata at the end of the phrase.
Conrad L. Osborne: Best Opera Critic Ever
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I was astounded, for I had never seen anyone, even in Venice, dance the forlana so splendidly.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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The singing is excellent down through the cast and the orchestra performs splendidly under his incisive baton.
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These hee-hee councils splendidly illustrate the inconsecutiveness and inconsequentiality of the Folk.
CHAPTER XIV
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The old woman dressed even more splendidly.
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The actors have en-tertained us so splendidly during this weekend, I think it's time we returned the compliment.
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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Nic Smillie's splendidly scungy set allows us to sense the cockroaches, smell the mould.
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The old woman dressed even more splendidly.
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For him at the time it is all quite real and harassingly or splendidly important.
How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell
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Indeed, Mediterranean plants and succulents like agaves work splendidly in coastal and desert plantings.
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It is also a pleasure to be invited to revisit the work of authors who delighted me when young: "Sapper" H.C. McNeile and his splendidly ridiculous hero, Bulldog Drummond; Baroness Orczy and her equally absurd but irresistible Scarlet Pimpernel; and that master of wildly romantic adventure, Rafael Sabatini.
The Case of the Missing Adventure Story
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Some parts of the world remain satisfyingly oblivious to all this palaver, however, as this true tale from a Scottish hostelry so splendidly proves.
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Young men in baseball caps and trainers are offered lessons in the wearing of trilbies and fedoras, and many people volunteer for ‘hat doffing’ classes, led by the splendidly monikered, and splendidly bearded, Torquil Arbuthnot.
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He provided two reliquaries on which to receive their oaths - one for his magnates, splendidly fabricated of crystal and gold, but entirely empty, the other for the common herd, plainer and enshrining a bird's egg.
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Here medieval marbled palaces and baroque churches contrast splendidly with chic cafes and boutiques.
The Sun
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Frequently, he pauses to alight and hang beneath the drooping stem of a bluebell to sip nectar, his pale sulphurous wings contrasting splendidly with the deep blue flowers.
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The present Gawthorpe Hall is splendidly proportioned, set on a low hill overlooking a sweeping bend over the River Calder.
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Though curious in the eyes of the young, it will surely make a grand spectacle to have these oldsters, splendidly outfitted, gliding along surrounded by all the glitz and glamour of the 21st Century.
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Murakami writes with a terseness that might be called minimalist, but the stories achieve a splendidly unminimalist richness, often taking on the potency of fable.
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The orchestra plays splendidly under the incisive leadership of Patrick Fournillier, too, and the sound reproduction is vivid and fully state-of-the-art.
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Here I saw a pretty thing: a cock cirl-bunting, his yellow breast towards me, sitting quietly on a large bush of these same brilliant berries, set amidst a mass of splendidly coloured hazel leaves, mixed with bramble and tangled with ivy and silver-grey traveller's-joy.
Afoot in England
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The walk was long and rather dull because it was nothing but a dull narrow hall, serving its humdrum purpose splendidly.
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As eyes readapted, the plain changed from inkiness to a ghostly gray, and stars trod splendidly forth.
Three Worlds To Conquer
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One of the pleasures of Stanford's book is its splendidly gossipy account of recent research into the early history of hominid bipedalism.
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This is a sordid tale, splendidly told.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was splendidly dressed in the royal scarlet and bluish violet.
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Calder - genius, creator of the mobile and the stabile - was a splendidly practical character.
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He could see into the rooms of the other class dormitories, where the students studied, skylarked, rough-housed, or conversed on innumerable topics; from a room in Nordyke, the abode of care-free Juniors, a splendidly blended sextette sang songs of their
T. Haviland Hicks Senior
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The first section of "Eri tu" is rendered in a splendidly firm, strong-lined legato, the words crystal-clear; it comes to an end with a decrescendo and portamento down from the top F on "guisa," a most expressive turn and acciaccatura on "primo," and a fermata at the end of the phrase.
Conrad L. Osborne: Best Opera Critic Ever
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Benjamin Hudson, the solo violinist in the Haydn concerto that opened the evening, splendidly carried forward the tragic final interplay between violins and cellos.
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Yet, as she spoke, she almost doubted her own eyes; so altered were the manner and attire of the handsome, stately, and almost splendidly dressed youth who, springing like a roebuck from a cliff of considerable height, lighted just in front of her.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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This year it was indeed a splendidly sunny day, prompting the women of Paris to move from winter coats to le trench and bringing fair-weather joggers into the parks.
The Serious Art of Gentle Exercise
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The young bulls "rustled" splendidly, and as next spring came along there was much interest felt as to results.
Ranching, Sport and Travel
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Thanks to plastic and a little glue, the clumsiest kid (me) could build splendidly detailed models of Mars passenger rockets and atomic-powered automobiles and many other things that would never be realized.
Future Schlock
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Most important, both pianists splendidly bring out the harmonic adventure of the pieces.
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On the day of lift-off, Wan, splendidly attired, climbed into his rocket chair and forty seven servants lit the fuses and then hastily ran for cover.
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Her fruit crumble is an ordinary item splendidly produced; ditto her flourless chocolate cake.
Globe and Mail
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The splendidly schematized figure is shown from a vantage point that allows the contour of his right arm to reinforce the silhouette of the tall Attic stele behind.
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These hee-hee councils splendidly illustrate the inconsecutiveness and inconsequentiality of the Folk.
CHAPTER XIV
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The author's exhortatory enthusiasm must work splendidly at a streetdesign convention, but at book length it's rather tiring.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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She released one of his hands, and by the other led him to a causeuse near one of the splendidly curtained windows.
Despair's Last Journey
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Within a hundred yards the banks are thickly wooded with tall mulga and lancewood scrub; but to the east is open gum forest, splendidly grassed.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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A ride over the hills brought us to a wood of oaks, with their branches fringed with the long grey Spanish moss, and a profusion of epiphytes clinging to their bark, some splendidly in flower, showing the fantastic shapes and brilliant colours one sees in English orchid-houses.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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The Art Gallery's nineteenth-century interiors, splendidly restored in the 1980s with public money, have been spoilt by the gallery's recent redevelopment.
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Suffice to say the next time Sarah was co-hosting with John she humorously chided her colleague for such fustiness, to which John mumbled a splendidly unconvincing apology.
Archive 2006-04-01
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The boat was behaving splendidly, leaping and lurching through the welter like a race - horse.
DEMETRIOS CONTOS
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Indeed, Mediterranean plants and succulents like agaves work splendidly in coastal and desert plantings.
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Hubero's eyes go very splendidly with the paintwork in the photo.
"I wonder what you've got conspired. I'm sure it dons a consolation prize."
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What our army and navy is was splendidly demonstrated when our bluejackets marched aboard their ships before our drawn-up soldiers while Admiral Fletcher transferred the command of Vera Cruz to General Funston.
Mexico's Army and Ours
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Tragically, the very environment that Great Basin bristlecone pines have so splendidly adapted too is under siege.
Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Ancient Pines by Reducing our Global Footprints
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Alongside the splendidly untrammelled landscape, there are disadvantages to living on Orkney.
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Borkman a prominent example of the ninteenth century type of criminous speculator, in whom the vastness of view and the splendidly altruistic audacity present themselves as elements which render it exceedingly difficult to say how far the malefactor is morally responsible for his crime.
Henrik Ibsen
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Note the splendidly PR-esque waffle from the man in the hotseat for this one: The area commander for North Kent police, Chief Superintendent Paul Brandon, said: Police in north Kent have worked closely with Mr Stepney and Mr Read to resolve problems they were having regarding anti-social behaviour.
IPCC To Investigate Barwell Deaths « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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A fine example is brick-built Herstmonceaux in Sussex, splendidly depicted in its overgrown state across the book's front end-papers.
The House Impregnable
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Splendidly pretty and bursting with emotion, this song is the work of a grown-up songwriter who still isn't afraid to cry.
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Our aeroboat behaved splendidly, in spite of a freshening trade-wind breeze, and we circled lower for a better view of the battle which now grew in fierceness as the fleets came to closer quarters.
The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory
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Only those the splendidly self-confident British upper classes would deign to deliberately and with self-ease not italicise a French loanword; in doing so, I was in fact expressing my position as not being of such social elevation.
Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars
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It is the most beautiful, immaculate, exquisite piece of paper - splendidly printed, if not actually embossed.
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He would surely have been present, for example, at such great occasions as the marriage, in January 1085, of al-Mu'tamin's son Ahmad al-Musta'in to a daughter of Abu Bakr of Valencia, splendidly organized by the Jewish vizier Abu al-Fadl ibn Hasday, himself one of the luminaries of the court culture of Zaragoza.
David Shasha: Charlton Heston's 'El Cid': A Hero for Our Time
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‘It was a big challenge to build in a town where the ancient Romans constructed so splendidly,’ says architect David Knafo.
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He was splendidly dressed in the royal scarlet and bluish violet.
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Cheyne, Frewen's boatsteerer, who was a splendidly built, handsome young fellow of twenty-four years of age, received a rather severe injury to his right foot whilst a heavy baulk of timber was being "fleeted" along the deck.
John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904
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Good gods, what am I going to do with this fine ten-mina breastplate, which is so splendidly made?
Peace
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Thanks to plastic and a little glue, the clumsiest kid (me) could build splendidly detailed models of Mars passenger rockets and atomic-powered automobiles and many other things that would never be realized.
Future Schlock
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When the large and splendidly-built city of Dunedin, Otago, was a barren bush, haunted only by the "morepork" and the apteryx, Russell was humming with vitality, her harbour busy with fleets of ships, principally whalers, who found it the most convenient calling-place in the southern temperate zone.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
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In other parts, the whole of the immediately surrounding foliage was illuminated by the interwoven dances in the air of splendidly coloured fire-flies, which sped hither and thither, turned, twisted, crossed, and recrossed, entwining every complexity of intervolved motion.
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
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The drawing rooms are splendidly accoutred, the 19 bedrooms individually designed and lavishly furnished and its restaurant is, simply, second to none.
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Here medieval marbled palaces and baroque churches contrast splendidly with chic cafes and boutiques.
The Sun
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“In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith,” he aphorized splendidly.12
DARKWATER
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Frequently, he pauses to alight and hang beneath the drooping stem of a bluebell to sip nectar, his pale sulphurous wings contrasting splendidly with the deep blue flowers.
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Walton is splendidly pompous and circumstantial when extolling the Babylonian gods.
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Soon, he would embark on the movies that would make his name synonymous with spectacle and display, movies that portrayed elemental human passions amidst settings of such splendidly enlarged dimensions that they could fire the imaginations of the dullest member of the audience.
Empire of Dreams
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A splendidly robotic half-length shows a bare-headed Cosimo right-side-on in state-of-the art armour; 25 versions exist – a small army.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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This splendidly removes all microphonics (sounds which come from a connective tissue relocating arround or being rubbed/hit) as well as it helps to keep a buds inside your ears, as theres reduction force pulling a buds down out of your ears.
WikiAB
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Father John Ubel, the new pastor, was in attendance, vested splendidly as a concelebrant as the two parish deacons assisted Father Welzbacher.
Corpus Christi Mass and Procession at St Agnes in St Paul Yesterday
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He sits up in Connecticut, splendidly isolated, working day and night, a lonely and rather tetchy old man.
Philip Roth: Still fascinated by himself | Observer profile
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Dawson brought from his jacket pocket the ring that Edric had spent months saving for, white gold with a pearl in the center that would match her wedding dress splendidly.
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This splendidly frisky Italian white wine from Piedmont is made from the Cortese grape.
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Tbilisi may also this be a reason, requests to purchase Israeli and US's newest armament splendidly.
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The Palm Beach Opera Orchestra (led by former Cincinnati Symphony concertmaster Eliot Chapo) played splendidly with particularly incisive strings and brilliant brass.
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Lit-lit, tearfully shy and frightened, was bedecked by her bearded husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded moccasins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass ear-rings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewellery, including a Waterbury watch.
THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
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One, a tall well-made figure, splendidly accoutred in the cavalry armor of the day, he recognized at once for Arvina, and in the stouter person, clad in the blue abolla, the color of which he had already connected with one whom he knew — his worst fears all realized — he discovered the messenger of treason, Titus Volturcius of Crotona.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2)
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Simeon directs his song of praise to an elevated, imposing high priest in a scene dominated by an even more imposing crowned, splendidly robed temple guardian.
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Edward evasively answered that he would attend to their wishes at the meeting of parliament, and they were obliged to be content for the present; but they were exceedingly angry that, at the coronation, Piers appeared more splendidly and richly attired than the King himself, and bearing on a cushion the crown of St. Edward, while the Earl of Lancaster carried curtana, the sword of mercy, and his brother Henry the rod with the dove.
Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
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Bridgewater is a splendidly Falstaffian character, tubby "more apple than pear-shaped", big-hearted and sybaritic.
Fathers and Sons
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A BREASTPLATE-MAKER Good gods, what am I going to do with this fine ten-minae breastplate, which is so splendidly made?
Peace
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The Spaniard splendidly cracked home an angled right-foot shot from the rebound after his first attempt had been blocked.
The Sun
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He then proceeded to twist and contort his features into a splendidly ugly mask of itself.
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Tall and erect against the dimness within the hall, splendidly apparelled and in her proud prime, there stood old King Henry's sole surviving legitimate child, Empress Maud by her first marriage, countess of Anjou by her second, the uncrowned Lady of the English.
A River So Long
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Arjun Ram Bishnoi and his splendidly bejewelled wife, Devi (Bishnoi women wear chunky tribal jewellery even when working in the fields), show me a blackbuck antelope grazing near their hut.
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It is a riveting story, splendidly told.
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In this splendidly moist cake, a layer of cooked rhubarb lurks beneath a sweetly spiced crumble topping.
