resplendently in a sentence
Examples
- Ms . Carpenter-McMillan, chain-smoking resplendently on the sun-dappled terrace of the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel here in Pasadena, was explaining the sense of vindication that she now found suffusing her once depressed friend and pro bono " client,"
- Sulaiman Ellison, Bronx born, offers a series of pictures taken over 15 years or so and centered on the Orthodox Christian church in Ethiopia, with resplendently robed clergy and revered pilgrimage sites like the rock-cut churches at Lalibela, to which Ellison made arduous repeated trips.
- But the handsomest Tang ceramic in the show is an imperial sancai ( or three-colored ) horse, a large, resplendently caparisoned pottery creature whose painted buff coat is accented by a highly coiffured reddish mane, a draped green saddle over an ornate blanket and green relief emblems along the flanks.
- As usual, my 12-year-old son, Edward, and I arrived at Baltimore's airy Pennsylvania Station _ with its resplendently restored stained-glass skylights and monumental granite columns and terra-cotta arches _ with the sense that we had landed in a more leisurely, perhaps bygone time zone.
- Numerous instances recounted by Simpson show that Grant's humility was genuine, none more so than the legendary surrender at Appomattox, when he quietly greeted a resplendently formal Robert E . Lee in open tunic, long coat, and muddy boots _ and showed great sympathy for the conquered Confederate general and his tattered infantry.
- The daughter of a widowed physician ( Bill Paterson of " Traffik " ), she's dismayed when she discovers her father intends to remarry, and even more dismayed when she discovers the identity of her new stepmother-- Hyacinth Kirkpatrick ( Francesca Annis ), a resplendently petty woman whose every attempt at kindness toward Molly is in reality an irritant.
- But a few miles away in Montclair, N . J ., not long ago, vivid evidence of backsliding sat resplendently on the floor of Montclair-Bloomfield Motors : a red 1996 Ford Explorer, Eddie Bauer model, one of the gasoline-guzzling sport utility vehicles, vans, minivans and pickups made by all American car companies whose surging popularity is reversing longtime advances in fuel efficiency.
- The Sixers had played the Cavaliers and Philadelphia's youthful, exciting, gifted, high-scoring, resplendently coifed second-year guard, Allen Iverson, had, as Brown recalls, " run his mouth " when Brown had removed him from the game _ after 12 minutes and an 0-for-7 shooting night _ and sulked at the end of the bench.
- William Seale writes in his resplendently detailed history " The President's House " ( White House Historical Association, 1986 ) that the cheese in question ( a gift from a supporter in Oswego County, N . Y . ) assaulted the olfactory senses at the main entrance for two years, until the public was invited in to consume it . ( It took two hours, and the stains on the floor remained for years ).
- These sculptures dominate the exhibition, by sheer number : a polychromed wood Christ, all lightness and elegance, by Frei Domingos da Conceicao e Silva; Christ bloodied, in different gory versions by various anonymous carvers; a black St . Elesbao, resplendently decorated and clunky, also by an anonymous artist; a stiff St . Francis receiving the stigmata from an even stiffer Christ, improbably sweet; and processional figures, meaning figures made to be carried in religious processions, that are folk mannequins, painted wood objects of hypnotic weirdness.