(a.) Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.
(a.) Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid' pompous.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the sixth frame of the evening he sunk a magnificent long red and careered on his way to a 131 clearance to extend his lead in the match to 9-5.
(2) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(3) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
(4) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(5) Castin' makes me feel good: Ghostbusters' diverse team is a victory Read more Dan Aykroyd heralds Ghostbusters cast as 'most magnificent women in comedy' Read more “There’s three drafts of the old concept that exists,” said Aykroyd.
(6) Cohen crossed the ball long from the right and Hurst rose magnificently to deflect in another header which Tilkowski could only scramble away from his right hand post, Ball turned the ball back into the goalmouth and the German’s desperation was unmistakable as Overath came hurtling in to scythe the ball away for a corner.
(7) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(8) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
(9) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.
(10) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
(11) General Richard Mills of the US Marines said when he took over from UK troops in Sangin last year that their performance had been "nothing short of magnificent".
(12) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
(13) The views are magnificent, so it may be worthwhile to pay a bit extra to overlook the water.
(14) When he sits back at the piano and plays Raspberry Beret and Starfish and Coffee and Girls and Boys, they’re beside themselves, and understandably so: he sounds magnificent.
(15) So then, Italy v Uruguay for a place in the last 16: you have to say that's magnificent.
(16) "I would like to thank our employees for their magnificent response to the torrid market conditions," Rothermere said in the DGMT annual report .
(17) To do so for the benefit of so many others is magnificent.
(18) Illustration: akg-images What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city.
(19) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.
(20) At the very top is a panoramic view as far as the southern Sri Lankan coast and a tiny cafe selling magnificent short eats, tea and jaggery (cane sugar).
Remarkable
Definition:
(a.) Worthy of being remarked or noticed; noticeable; conspicuous; hence, uncommon; extraordinary.
Example Sentences:
(1) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
(2) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
(3) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(4) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(5) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
(6) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
(7) Tiropramide remarkably increased cAMP level but it had no effect on cGMP level in the bladder at the lower concentrations.
(8) A remarkably close relationship was found between both H. pylori urease subunits and jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) urease, the subunit of which is a single 840 amino acid polypeptide.
(9) Specific antibody patterns in vaccinees were highly variable and in a small number of subjects a remarkable antibody titre decrease was noticed.
(10) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(11) Four of the tumours, 2 adenomas and 2 intramucosal carcinomas, having a remarkable macroscopic appearance like a large mucosal fold are especially mentioned.
(12) During photoirradiation, both in vivo and in vitro, the serum polar (ZE)-bilirubin IX alpha concentration increased remarkably, but unbound-bilirubin values were not affected at all.
(13) Furthermore, the AMDP-3 scale and its manual constitute a remarkable teaching instrument for psychopathology, not always enough appreciated.
(14) The iPTH values found in the hemofiltrate were remarkably high, a finding that could be explained by non-specific effects, by the occurrence of hormone fragments or by an increased secretion rate.
(15) Both Apo AI (48%) and Apo AII (5.5%) were greatly diminished and Apo E was present in remarkably high amounts (39%) with two additional isoforms (Apo E'1 and Apo E'2).
(16) There was a remarkable tendency to newborns weighting more than 2000 g and a duration of pregnancy longer than 35 weeks.
(17) Results of the present study show that epithelial cells of ciliated columnar type covering vocal cords change remarkably to nonciliated squamous cells between prenatal and postnatal stages.
(18) Cyclosporine has a remarkable hepatotropic effect that may be helpful in the context of liver transplantation.
(19) This remarkably reliable examination showed a predominance of anterior and anterolateral aneurisms (87% of cases), and enables definition of the critical cardiac surface area (about 25%) above which the aneurysm is operable.
(20) The influential Belgian scientist Quetelet demonstrated a remarkable scotoma towards the phenomenon.