The highlight of an ineffectual display by Dean Smith's men was a second-half shot by youngster James Baxendale, kept out by a marvellous save by visiting keeper Steve Mildenhall, who also saved Nicky Featherstone's curler.
At such moments, Acker comes into his own, operating with tautness and delicacy; he seems engaged less by giant, routine detonations than by the marvellous scene in a cavernous library, staffed by a pair of twittering archivists with socks on their heads, where 9 and his comrades soar up to the shelves, on a swinging arm, in a bid to track down the secret of their survival.
So, why worry about Hitler?" "Each of the German victories, and there were a surprising number of these, made [Hitler] happy, but he was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvellous coloured American runner, Jesse Owens.
Then there were the towns: first Erfurt, hardly damaged by the war, where Martin Luther was ordained, then Weimar again, now enhanced by a marvellous museum on the Bauhaus, the design movement founded in the city by Walter Gropius in 1919.
As a young girl daydreams herself into a world of brilliant and bizarre fantasies, she encounters a menagerie of freaks, monsters and magical creatures, presided over by a wicked ringmaster, and all of them created by the marvellous human Plasticine of the Pilobolus dancers.
Today's pseudo-profundity of choice: Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it It has been suggested to me by the Guardian's own Chris Moran that these tweets are actually generated by this marvellous aphorism generator.
I was struck again by his marvellous calm and serenity.
To judge by her marvellous Oxford Companion to Italian Food, Gillian Riley is all of these things.
He's helped by a marvellous girl who is a servant there.
(The prize was deservedly won by the marvellous Chinese writer, Yiyun Li).
