Word: splendor
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...stood and waved his white Stetson. Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale materialized. Bob Hope shambled slow-motion across the stage like an amiable pink hologram. Four Republican Presidents were there, and four First Ladies. The centerpiece, Richard Nixon's career, was laid out in a sort of waxen splendor. Scarcely a trace of the fatal accident showed...
...word. "A glittering shambles/ of enthrallments and futilities," goes one complaint; "a warren of untruth, a propped/ vacuity." Some of her lighter excursions are to Maine, the inspiration of some lovely, limpid nature writing -- about picking blueberries "the color/ of distances, of drowning," or a day of "bone-white splendor,/ a slow surf filleting the blue...
...months ago, the Harvard Business School opened its new marble gymnasium, Shad Hall. I've heard wonderful tales of its aesthetic splendor and bounteous athletic offerings, but I've never gotten past the front door. You see, while Harvard Business School students may freely enter the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), Harvard undergraduates are denied access to Business School athletic facilities...
...idea, especially if you want to travel and see the coast from Tampa, which is one hour to the north, or go to Ft. Meyers and Sanibel Island, which are one hour to the south. Sanibel is considered to be Florida's capital of natural beauty and splendor...
...return to the relatively mild climes of McMurdo Station, where the temperatures hovered in the 30s. He might have enjoyed McMurdo even more had he known what was waiting for him back in New York City: a cold snap, with temperatures dipping into the teens. For all its ; harsh splendor, Antarctica suddenly seemed as welcoming as a summer beach...