more splendid

This was an inspired idea that Adams wished he had had first: “What a dunce I have been all my days, and what lubbers my Children, and Grand Children, were, that none of us have ever thought to make a similar collection. If we had I am confident I could have produced a more splendid Mass than yours.”

Like travel or dining, Swimply presents another aspirational opportunity, a new lane in the eternal quest to place yourself in more splendid surroundings.

"He was once much more than he is now, Sikander. He was a war god. You should have seen him in his glory days. There was rarely a sight more splendid. I suppose that was when Erishkigal fell in love with him. She and I would visit the battlefields together, and Nergal would be there, covered in gore."

The views over Florence and the Duomo are even more splendid than those from the nearby Piazzale Michelangelo, and in the crypt of the church, as McCarthy promised, was a “petrified forest” of the assorted Roman columns and capitals that had been incorporated into the church.

“The people of failed Toledo can say to the people of the rest of the world, ‘Our junkyards are more splendid than your palaces.’”