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glorious

having or deserving or conferring glory a long and glorious career our glorious literature (= splendid, splendiferous) having great beauty and splendor a glorious spring morning a glorious sunset splendid costumes a kind of splendiferous native simplicity (= brilliant, magnificent, splendid) characterized by grandeur the brilliant court life at Versailles a glorious work of art magnificent cathedrals the splendid coronation ceremony

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Simple sentences

What a glorious fall day. This is what they mean by the lovely weather you get after a storm.
Our country has a glorious history.
This is certainly a glorious day.
What a glorious mess!
We had a glorious time at the seaside.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
In some attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
Be glorious, India!

Movie subtitles

Here is a glorious beginning to your lives.
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
My life has been one glorious hunt.
But it could have been glorious.
A glorious moon.
Then our glorious and laudable Army. the old, proud, standard bearers of our people. who are equally tradition minded. will champion the Political Leadership and the Party.
Oh, isn't it glorious?
Oh, it was glorious.
However, if you wish to enshrine this joyful day let the whole world know about our leader and great commander, about our glorious hero who went among the lepers to fight the horror and the disease.
On the eve of a greater and more glorious war campaign.
Isn't it glorious?
This place, hidden away from the rest of the world with its glorious concepts.
The glorious knight Dietlieb. You shall be the Prince of Novgorod.
When I do, I shall build a house on a ridge I know with a glorious view.
Oh, what a glorious day.
But if, on a glorious day, in a bed of the loveliest flowers, you were to find a grim monster which put you in a bad mood?
It may become my good fortune to have a glorious death.
It would be glorious to go with you but I may never be able to see all those splendid things.
Tomorrow is sure to be glorious. It brings me closer to you.
Be kind to those who are in your service. and obedient to your husband and superiors. and strive at all times to be worthy of your glorious destiny.
And I bring you the felicitations of my nation. and my own personal congratulations on so glorious an event.
The ride was glorious.
Oh, we'll have a glorious summer sailing, David.
You're making me jealous. Oh Alan, this holiday has been so glorious.
It was glorious, wasn't it?
Make our ancestors flag rise again remembering the glorious days of Michael the Brave and Stephen the Great.
Send us victorious, happy and glorious.
And how are you this glorious morning?
GLORIOUS!
Glorious news!
No, and did I tell you that Captain Butler made. a stupendous contribution to the Association for the Beautification. -.of the Graves of the Glorious Dead? - No!
Glorious, aren't they?
He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future, the glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us.
A radiant, glorious queen.
A glorious night for romance and you want to tear a cow apart with your teeth.

News and current affairs

As an Arabist by training, immersed in Arab and Muslim culture, he always hoped that the glorious Arab past could be rejuvenated, that an Arab and Muslim culture of tolerance could triumph over fanaticism and extremism.
To many, it was a glorious moment, emblematic of the West's victory in the Cold War, and one that seemed to come out of the blue.
The pen, at last mightier than the sword, became a weapon of glorious retribution, wielded with style. Some voters slashed their ballots boldly, decapitating the old regime with flourishing strokes.
Even if America goes off to war waving the banner of democracy, the results are likely to be less glorious.
To be the beneficiary of an action is less glorious than to be the benefactor, because it hints at powerlessness and dependence.
Hungary, of course, had its short and glorious revolution.
The US ranked seventeenth from the top, a not-so-glorious position for the world's leading power.
PARIS - Bastille Day, the French national holiday, was glorious this year.
Indeed, the Glorious Revolution enabled a revolution in finance.
The pen, at last mightier than the sword, became a weapon of glorious retribution, wielded with style.
In the wake of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when Britain revolted against the spendthrift Stuart dynasty, the British government adopted a new approach to debt.
If a lazy and fearful Europe did not want Turkey, so much the worse for Europe; history was offering more glorious alternatives to the Turks.
But nowhere is the contrast between the recent glorious past and the miserable present as spectacular as it is in France.
It was globalization, after all, that created what in France became known as Les Trente Glorieuses - the 30 glorious years of rapidly rising living standards following the end of WWII.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who intends to stage a glorious return to the Kremlin as President in the election scheduled for March next year, should reflect on that choice.
It is a glorious welcome, even in fog.
For all the gloom with which 2010 ended, the new decade has begun with a glorious example of the indefatigable courage of the human spirit.
These are glorious days for Iran.
India is a glorious democracy with an economically literate government and pockets of real economic achievement.

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