Word: splendour
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...spirit of the place is insistent with the presence of money. Set in feudal splendour cool and moist as the Snow Queen's summer palace in its perch upon the sea, it is redolent with sensual pleasure. It is also a monumental mistake built as if toward some transcendental point, and peaking in denial of possibilities even as it marks the exhaustion of America as a land still to be settled...
...front. I saw her in spring when the beanie changed into a circa aught six auto veil. She minced from Falcon to classroom, classroom to Falcon. I never saw her go to the ladies room, the cafeteria, or the teachers' lounge. She ate lunch at her desk in pristine splendour and delicately licked her Harpy-like fingers after she concluded her meal. I used to watch her through the window in the door during junior high, giggling with my best friend, enthralled. She terrified...
...splendour of her breasts," wrote an early biographer, "made madmen everywhere." He might also have mentioned her energy, ambition, courage, cunning, charm, wit and wardrobe. It took all those things, and plenty of gall besides, to turn Eliza Gilbert into Lola Montez, famous dancer, mistress of Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas père, intimate of kings and prime ministers, de facto ruler of Bavaria during Ludwig I's declining years, and belle of the California gold rush...
...third of the Metropolitan Museum's monumental exhibitions in honor of its hundredth anniversary, 19th-Century America. comes prepared to outdo the previous exhibitions in claborate display, quantity and splendour. With the bravura of technicolor and wide screen, the museum puts hundreds of paintings and sculptures among a setting of period furniture and decorative art with craftsmanship and detail stripped from design today...
...splendour of our matting crime