Immerse yourself in science and it will lead you to stories that are wondrous and baffling, beautiful and cruel, cute and amusing.
In Christopher Wheeldon's mesmerizing Within the Golden Hour, all the couples, lead and corps, beautifully costumed and lit, wrapped themselves around each other with an intensity and a sensuousness that was wondrous to behold.
The hunt for exoplanets embodies all that is wondrous about the human endeavor our innovation, our spirit, our thirst to know how we came to be, how we fit in, and what our cosmic destiny might hold.
And yet there is also something in us that is wondrous, that touches the infinite and belongs to the sacred.
For all that was wondrous about him, there was a dark side that she witnessed and tolerated for as long as she could.
Its streetscapes, with their exquisite filigree and ornamental splendor, seem to be art itself, an ethereal creation that's as wondrous and enduring as nature.
All we're being told is that life is wondrous in spite of its afflictions.
It's wondrous to know it exists".
For Oates, butterflies are a conduit into a natural world that is too wondrous to grasp in totality.
From reading authors like Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas, Annie Dillard and John McPhee, moreover, he discovered, he said, that "nonfiction could be wondrous and imaginative, shapely and literary — it didn't just have to be explanatory".
