Sentence examples for as marvellous from inspiring English sources

Potential students should take note: if taking a professional risk were as marvellous as they say, why do these role models so assiduously avoid it?

Yes, a single night of celebrity back-patting has evolved into a six-month industry in Hollywood – a wearisome process that at least seems more worthwhile when the presumed frontrunner is as marvellous as Boyhood (Universal, 15).

The new legal burdens of non-executives, particularly on audit committees, may mean that the atmosphere in American boardrooms swings too far, from excessive adulation of the chief executive to its opposite, curbing the risk-taking that is essential to corporate success.British corporate governance is not as marvellous as many Brits smugly believe.

Sketches of people were etched into large stones, proving to be more mysterious but just as marvellous as Hatitheu.

She described Bogarde as "Marvellous – a brilliant film actor".

And Romney did describe it as "marvellous" — one of his many recent slipups.

Now was time for the marvellous as well as the murderous – to walk on air against one's better judgment.

As history has slackened its wintry grip on Ireland, the Famous Seamus has eased himself out of the infamous laureateship and raised his head, as he put it in his Nobel Lecture of 1995, "to try to make space in my imagining for the marvellous as well as the murderous".

Yes, when they are as freshly minted and as adventurously sonorous as this marvellous set from Abbado's young period-style Orchestra Mozart.

To the young McGahern, "the delicate social shadings of the place", combined with a passionate sense of belonging to a particular region, rather than to Ireland as a whole, made home as intricate and marvellous as Helpstone was to John Clare 150-odd years earlier.

There have probably never been as many marvellous exponents of the art as there are now.