Sentence examples for marvellous lines from inspiring English sources

The films that are made are like menhirs, standing amid the rubble of everything broken or lost, the marvellous lines, scenes, the great effort lavished like milt over roe.

A marvellous line of rice paper sheets, hung up like so much washing, creates a continuous ruff across the gallery that flutters as you move.

And Hopkins would normally act all off the stage, and does cut a marvellous line between leonine rage and wheedling self-pity, and seldom can Shakespeare's line in King Lear – "as full of grief as age, wretched in both" – have resonated with more bathos.

The really early plays are similar to Christopher Marlowe: strong line after marvellous strong line.

Tupper had invented what he thought was a marvellous new line of airtight plastic food containers.

When I reached "Pasiphaë," all that had come before seemed to me a shaggy-dog story meandering to this marvellous punch line.

When asked about his damaged heroes, Francis, in a rather marvellous throwaway line, said he had "to have something to fill up the pages".

I threw the javelin for Surrey when I was at school which is rather a marvellous chat-up line.

The second album contains ten Thad Jones songs, and is full of marvellous Hank Jones single-note lines and wild, whomping Elvin Jones brushwork.

Kerlin Gallery, to 28 Jun RC What Bridget Riley can do with a straight line is marvellous.

The voiceover concludes with the line "you are marvellous, the gods wait to delight in you".