Sentence examples for marvellous description from inspiring English sources
In the story he gives his whole boy-self to the game in a marvellous description of burgeoning human consciousness, until finally his whole, vulnerable boy-self and his loving Aunt Annie are humiliated and left heartbroken by posh, wimpish Jack and the even posher Mrs Williams, who "sat with Jack in the back of the (chauffeur-driven) car gazing at the ruin of Gorsehill".
Maxwell judged his friend capable of "marvellous descriptions" but regretted that they "didn't interest him".
It is also - and connectedly, through the name, coloured people - full of marvellous descriptions of the brightness and softess of black bodies - pewter skins of women skating in the cold, Sixo's indigo behind as he walks home naked after meeting his girl.
The face is not a flat description but a marvellous three-dimensional portrait of a handsome Italian living in real time, muscles beneath the skin, five o'clock shadow, not merely the usual patch of grey paint but something emerging from within.
Admittedly, though, his description of a cup of tea as tasting of "boiled window" was marvellous.
Marvellous, marvellous, absolutely splendid.
