Example Sentences

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But like Mitchell, my mind wasn’t on the splendidness, although Al Green and Audra McDonald sang, and DTH performed.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2018

That said, period buffs will probably find something to enjoy among its visual splendidness.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2013

Fifteen months after it buggered off on a horse called Enormous Vintage Sauce, here it is again – mane lacquered, bridle buffed and period-specific hooves primed for another six episodes of jazzy 1950s splendidness.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012

And as for the B: Burning Spear – Jah No Dead Birdsong and some watery splendidness that might be rolling waves or a river flowing.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2010

Rachael had once seen in this quality a certain godlike supremacy, a bigness, and splendidness of vision that rose above the ordinary standards of ordinary men; now it filled her with uneasiness.

From The Heart of Rachael by Norris, Kathleen Thompson