Example sentences for: splendidly

How can you use “splendidly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The splendidly incongruous 20 th -century musical resurrection of Victor Hugo makes me conclude that, when composers set a poet's work to music, the best thing to do is, in the case of a fiasco like Disney's Hunchback , to stay away completely, and in the case of a show like Les Mis , to enjoy the story without paying any attention to the literary art.

  • Some critics complain that "for all the crinkle and lilt" of the dialogue and the top-notch ensemble cast, the film "sags in the middle" (Stanley Kauffman, the New Republic ). Maslin warns that the film is "a collection of sea changes and splendidly realized small moments rather than a story of overarching action."

  • Originally an Anglo stronghold, part of it is still known even among French speakers as Upper-Outremont, family home of that splendidly ambiguous French-Canadian, prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

  • The best are São Rafael, a beautiful, sandy strip with some splendidly shaped rocky outcrops, and Coelha, Castelo, and Galé, three small, beautiful coves.

  • For want of a fitting statue to the great man, observatory staff have placed in the entrance hall, as a splendidly atrocious visual pun, a simple small stone — Ein Stein.


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