Sentence examples for marvellous intelligence from inspiring English sources
The theme of "The Dove" had germinated in what Edmund Wilson has called James's "marvellous intelligence" (and Wells his "immensely abundant brain") upon the death of a first cousin extremely dear to him, Minny Temple, who departed his world and our world (they are in many ways distinctly different) at the age of twenty-four.
"Night after night, Jimmy and I talked, drinking whisky through the hours until the chill dawn, and I understood that I was in the company of as marvellous an intelligence as I was ever likely to encounter... Jimmy was a social animal of nearly manic gusto and there were some loud and festive times".
The world of childish desire, dashed hopes, rivalry, manipulation, sex and play is evoked with marvellous precision and intelligence in The Chip-Chip Gatherers.
I'm still getting to know the astonishing richness and range of this marvellous poet; his graceful intelligence can span enormous imaginative lengths.
Stephen Palmer's marvellous ninth novel, Beautiful Intelligence (Infinity Plus, £8.99), posits a beleaguered 22nd century in which oil has run out, water is scarce, and in a neat inversion of the contemporary world order, Europe is an economic ruin and Africa the promised land.
It permits us, with a marvellous neutrality, and later it may permit artificial intelligence, humanity 2.0, or a lot more bugs instead.
Housekeeping is marvellous by any standards, but Gilead, a book of exacting intelligence and exalting prose, made a believer out of me.
Marvellous, marvellous, absolutely splendid.
