He makes much of the putatively "marvellous" fact that one of his heroes, Marcel Carné, entered the film industry the same year he was born.
It is a marvellous fact that the heavy elements on Earth were all created in violent astrophysical cataclysms, but the story of this supernova is especially specific, because the actual atoms can be dated (at least statistically).
There are a few women in England I go mad for; it's not fashion, but when she opens her mouth, thousands of marvellous facts come out of her.
Instead of backstabbing brutes, are we in fact marvellous creatures?
Oddly, the things in the new Rijksmuseum I found most rewarding were the moments when it did lapse into old-style concentration on a single fact – a marvellous case of rock-crystal vessels, or five sublime still lifes by Adriaen Coorte in a line.
In fact, so marvellous was it that after two years I thought: sod it – I'll go the whole hog and have the contraceptive implant: a tiny match-stick-sized device that is stashed in my upper arm and slowly releases a low dose of progestogen.
The scientists of America have a truly marvellous story to tell; in fact, thousands of them.
It's not like publisher Marvellous has shied away from that fact, either, releasing a special edition of the game with an oppai mouse mat ("with 3D boobs!") and naming the next-level-down set the "Happy Boobs" edition.
"You can use marvellous fabrics, have wonderful, impossible embroidery – in fact, be superluxe," he told Vogue in 1974, "and superluxe is what the couture is all about".
But the human body is in fact the product of a marvellous history of "descent with modification".
In a marvellous aside, Priam wonders whether this relaxation of coded behavior may in fact be "the real gift" that he will be bringing to Achilles — the real ransom.
