"Eleven years ago, I was standing by a deep fryer," he said, his voice conveying wonder as he and Mr. Williams capped off the day's shooting with a dinner of oxtail stew, curried goat, callaloo and macaroni pie.
Both the humor and the rapture come from the same source: a keen, obsessive attention to language that combines fascination with frustration at words' faltering ability to convey the wonder, strangeness and sadness of experience.
In the role, Parker walks a tightrope between vacancy and vision; she's an expert comic player who is able to convey both wonder and sweetness in her bewilderment, giving credibility to the preposterous circumstances in which she finds herself.
Paying no homage to the soundworld of Piero's time – the percussion lineup even includes xylophone – Martinů wanted rather to convey the wonder and joy of his own response.
A little while later, one of my fellow voyagers lugged a smaller chunk of clear ice into the Zodiac, and that evening the ship's bartender, Lea, poured drinks over glacier ice – I crunched frozen ancient air between my teeth and tried to think of a way to convey the wonder of this continent to those who have never been here.
However, I do work a lot with nature and natural algorithms in my work, and I'm generally drawing on them to convey the wonder of the universe, and the seductiveness of physics, by letting you touch things you couldn't normally because they're too small, too fast, too large, or invisible.
"What will that convey?" I wondered.
While trying to convey the wonders of the web to his unimpressed wife, Barshack came up with the idea of an E-mail directory, like a phone book for E-mail addresses.
But, as we all know, it was his ability to convey the wonders of life in space and the glory of our home planet from the International Space Station (ISS) which captured the world's imagination.
Darwin's attempt to popularize science and to convey the wonders of scientific discovery and technological innovation through poetry helped initiate a tradition of popular science writing that continues to the present day.
