splendorous

And the use of "splendorous" in Thursday's Times seems appropriate, actually.

But very few temples have Goddess Lakshmi in her eight splendorous forms.

Additional features envisioned were a banquet hall, planned to seat one thousand people, and a splendorous roof garden.

To our mind, he ought to have given "splendiferous" a show, instead of overworking "splendorous" so cruelly.

Either way, it does so in splendorous contrapuntal homage to the author of the "Art of the Fugue."

The musical featured chorus girls with extravagant costumes and splendorous settings with oriental motifs.

Main The Splendorous Chords of Memory "

Until that point the wide, meshed road system of the Neustadt had been consolidated by tearing down houses and other areas to allow for splendorous boulevards.

Cement oases erected in splendorous natural settings, both campuses offer welcomed shade and cool breezes in the summer.

Then the prince kissed his bride and she fondled his long black hair and, arm in arm, they walked into their splendorous tent, to sleep.

One of the largest buildings in Kuldiga (1905 street 6) known for its splendorous interior in marble with gilded details, is the Jewish synagogue.

Yet it is a bit unfair to focus pious criticism on Verdi's setting of the Mass for the Dead, splendorous as it is.

The megaliths recently unearthed at Vizhinjam shows a splendorous display of craftsmanship that was prevalent in the region from the Middle Eras.

A gigantic bronze statue of the man who raised him stands a few hundred meters from the small house, at the entrance to a row of splendorous palaces.

The rebuilding of previous two merchant town houses into a splendorous Rococo residence, on the request of Stanisław Lubomirski, was commenced in 1763 and lasted until 1767.

My strongest early influence was thus my older brother; it was from him I learned that the making of books - not just the reading of them - was a splendorous thing.

He resumes the tackily splendorous trappings of his previous life, living in a hotel, carrying on with call girls and being chauffered about in an enormous Cadillac that has two telephones.

It isn't a splendorous production on the order of "Amadeus," yet "Immortal Beloved" gets at the core of Beethoven with a concision and intensity that bespeak the composer.

The top floors consisted of splendorous halls, whereas the vaults of the upper basement floor, which are today occupied by the museum, most probably housed the rooms of the castle inhabitants.

It can be understood in this way that when Sajjada Nashin sits on Takht-e-Sajjadagi, then a boat in brought before him by the Shaikhs in a splendorous manner.

Agnes considered describing the sunset to the blinded boy, but her hesitancy settled into reluctance, and by the time the stars came out, she had said not a word about the day's splendorous final act.

It is also the site and namesake of the 1965 impact of a meteorite, which, though resulting in only a few small pieces that could be found, made a splendorous fireball track across the sky.

Mardi Gras night, and the interior of the Municipal Auditorium had been transformed into a splendorous setting worthy of the ball considered by many to be the social event of the year.

Much of the New Ansari cash was carried by couriers flying from Kabul and Kandahar, usually to Dubai, where many Afghan officials maintain second homes and live in splendorous wealth.

Among the many splendorous things: the Élysée Palace, Placido Domingo's voice, the Plaza Hotel, the Negev desert, and Pope Boniface VIII.