Crossley-Holland's prose has a glorious matter-of-fact poetry and his medieval hero will be recognisable to any modern teenager as he makes the difficult journey from boyhood to manhood.
It's a glorious thing altogether — words and music — no matter how it's mangled".
5) reveals a major flaw in the Cambridge mechanical engineer's otherwise brilliant scheme: at a certain degree of evolution, that is currently impossible to predict, the computer will most assuredly develop an awareness of its self-destructive direction and refuse to be shrunk any further, no matter how glorious it might seem to expire in a cosmic blaze of information.
No matter how glorious a life we live, how dizzying the heights we scale, death comes to us all.
It was an enlightenment that by its very nature could never be content with the way things were in the past, no matter how glorious that past may have been.
"Not this year," he said, "It's much better I'm at my desk working, rather than sitting in a room talking about working" Sport may be a glorious irrelevance, but it matters to people way beyond any tribal or partisan allegiance.
The bonus on this night was an audience that didn't need to be won over because they knew every note, every word and, most of all, couldn't wait to be reminded by this glorious work that life matters most when it's driven by one's unwavering belief that love is all that matters.
At the rate we are going now, feathered dinosaurs in glorious technicolour are only a matter of time.
No matter what name glorious Turkish food comes under, though, I enjoy it just the same.
Matters were not so glorious a year ago.
The future of this glorious, distinctive animal is worryingly uncertain, no matter how you stack up their numbers.
