(n.) Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her mother said she had made her “so proud” and her “gorgeous crazy” partner had made her world “a happy place”.
(2) The Romney Family Table is available online and in bookstores now, and could serve as the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who likes Mitt Romney, or likes seeing pictures of someone else's happy, gorgeous family, or simply is determined to ensure that the Romneys don't just dissolve into obscurity.
(3) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
(4) But in falsely justifying, in scene after scene, the torture of detainees in "the global war on terror", Zero Dark Thirty is a gorgeously-shot, two-hour ad for keeping intelligence agents who committed crimes against Guantánamo prisoners out of jail.
(5) I’ve recently gained the companionship of a gorgeous Chihuahua and she’s a great source of fun and gives me an excuse to walk around the gorgeous countryside.
(6) Yes, her life making frocks in LA with David and three gorgeous boys must have been torture before.
(7) This new phone's greatness is not revealed in its outer lineaments, however, gorgeous as they are, software is crucial.
(8) She was also absolutely gorgeous, and we all harmonised really well together.
(9) Ancient towns and wooded hillsides looked gorgeous reflected in the blue water, but we were beguiled just as much by the people.
(10) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(11) The new venues, including an architecturally gorgeous velodrome and stadium, were built ahead of time and have worked flawlessly.
(12) Who wouldn't have fallen at once for such a gorgeous looking man?"
(13) On stage 1, the first hill that might split the peloton is Buttertubs Pass, now restyled as Côte de Buttertubs, which rises up out of Hawes in North Yorkshire and swoops down into the gorgeous Swaledale valley.
(14) On virtually every street corner, there's a gorgeous church designed by Christopher Wren to fill the gaps after the great fire of 1666, which destroyed the medieval city.
(15) Nine years later, I realise that, despite its gorgeous location, the Pavilion is a shitehole boozer that sells horrible food, the children are still stuck to their screens, despite our best efforts (including joining the sailing club: brief pause for the hollowest of laughs at that one), and something nasty is stirring in my adopted home town.
(16) A skiers' cable car takes us down to Champoluc next morning, and we are on our way back to Switzerland, up a gorgeous valley to the linked ski resorts of Italian Cervinia and Swiss Zermatt.
(17) When a fortysomething regional television star took a screen test at Sky Sports insiders suspected that producers instantly marked her down against the bevy of gorgeous babes competing for presenting gigs.
(18) Walk straight up the hill to Summit Avenue, which clings to the ridgeline of the Hudson Palisades, however, and the vista of the Manhattan skyline is totally brilliant, gorgeous and huge.
(19) This survey of China's ethereal paintings is fleshed out by The Chinese Art Book, published by Phaidon on 14 October, a gorgeously laid out overview in which classics like Chen Rong's Nine Dragons, painted in 1244, - the original is in the V&A show - are juxtaposed with contemporary artists from heroic Ai Weiwei to the fireworks of Cai Guo-Qiang.
(20) Perhaps he came with the intention of whipping up a controversy that his movie (a gorgeous, though maundering meditation on the end of the world) has singularly failed to provide.
Splendid
Definition:
(a.) Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.
(a.) Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant.
(a.) Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; celebrated; famous; as, a splendid victory or reputation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
(2) Derbies generally struggle to live up to their billing and this one had no chance of matching the hype and hope that went before, yet until Scholes applied his splendid coup de grâce it bore an unexpected resemblance to a mere end-of-season game.
(3) England’s man of the moment found it difficult on his first start although in fairness he was not the only one struggling for momentum before the substitute Andros Townsend sugarcoated the occasion with a splendid equalising goal.
(4) Shaun Derry landed the first blow with a fine header from a Taarabt corner in the 77th minute before Cissé met a splendid Taye Taiwo delivery from the left with an equally fine header to draw the teams level in the 84th.
(5) It celebrates smoking's conviviality and the splendid isolation of the smoker, the smoker's exhibitionism and her pensive introversion.
(6) The soundtrack is supplied by vinyl rotating on vintage record players, a gumball machine dispenses yellow, black and white gobstoppers, and the room is surveilled by the beady eyes of esoteric taxidermy that includes a peacock in full plume and a splendid Himalayan wild goat grazing among the soft seating.
(7) "), or Mrs Wilfer, after placing Bella in the magnificent coach of the Boffins, continuing to "air herself … in a kind of splendidly serene trance on the top step" for the benefit of the neighbours.
(8) Known in the small Welsh town of Llanfyllin as "Lonely Tree", because it stood in splendid isolation, bending to the prevailing west wind on a bare skyline high above the town, the huge, 200-year-old pine could be seen from the school, the church, the police station, the Victorian workhouse and many of the town's pubs.
(9) Carrie gives us a reality complicated by mental illness (a splendid portrayal) .
(10) He records a chat with her PPS, Fergus Montgomery, who told her that his splendidly bouffant hair was the result of going to the hairdresser.
(11) Today, George Osborne will be isolated, although perhaps not so splendidly, as European finance ministers gather to discuss plans to clamp down on bankers pay.
(12) Brought down by Tibi on the edge of the area, Bale picked himself up and struck a splendid free-kick that flew inside Marciano’s near post.
(13) TonyRidge Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire Exploring the woodland at either side of the River Wharfe, where it flows through this spectacular, narrow gorge, is a splendid experience at any time of the year.
(14) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
(15) Despite the problems with the structure, with its chaotic levels, leaking roofs, bewildering layout and dimly lit interiors, the building splendidly sited beside the handsome Victorian city hall and museum had passionate admirers.
(16) His fears were confirmed as Geoff Cameron crossed and Crouch rose above Daryl Janmaat to direct a splendid header across the advancing Krul and into the bottom corner.
(17) The university itself is modern, situated on a splendid campus and has a well-established medical faculty.
(18) Moments previously, David De Gea pulled off a splendid one-handed save after diving to his left, to keep out a goal-bound effort from Dzeko.
(19) The city's splendid neo-gothic town hall is to be closed for the day on Wednesday.
(20) "In the past we had this idea that Stonehenge was standing in splendid isolation, but it wasn't … it's absolutely huge."