Word: splendid
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...Ruins are typically reserved for tourists or for nobody, either ancient, splendid, worthy of a postcard or uncelebrated, accidental, vacant. The concept of "ruins for the present" is not new--Robert Smithson made a career of dropping truckloads of dirt onto houses and the like. But for all the time we spend walking around in built spaces, we rarely get to see them once they've been abandoned. Emotionally, "Crawl Space" combines the curiosity and trepidation of some kid as he pokes around a dilapidated house with a deep sense that we've already been in this house forever...
...splendid lecturer and had big enrollments," Hankins says. "He did both American and European intellectual history and that was really his great strength. He was able to bring the two together in a way that few people could...
...splendid lecturer and stand up comic and all that one needs to be to succeed as a professor," he says...
...made it possible to think of faith as a way of living, thinking, being and serving," Gomes said. "It is important to remember that [PBH] was not simply to be this splendid place of bricks and mortar... but to shelter and enhance the living memorial of an ideal expressed in human flesh...
MOST OPERATIC COMPLIMENT "My eyes danced across the pages of your ravishingly splendid story and nearly teared in anticipation of each new twist of phrase. What drama...