splendid
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The immediate answer is that several of next year’s Academy Award nominees are starting their long Oscar seasons at the splendid opening-night banquet where truffles adorned both the sea bass and the ice cream.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
In its many guises, idolatry has survived, despite regular and often cataclysmic proof of its dangers, for centuries and many people will consider a much-larger-than-life golden statue of a president to be perfectly splendid.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
It is a splendid example of how to do a fully rounded work on a people at total war, of how to use a vast mix of sources, and to keep the story going.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Her take is a maelstrom of splendid beauty and doomed love, colliding at a feverish pace that makes the fidelity to Brontë’s book moot.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026
Was she thinking of Paris as she sat in her husband’s splendid hall?
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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