Sentence examples for marvellous opening from inspiring English sources

A marvellous opening ceremony and a marvellous telecast thanks in no small part to my brilliant co-host, Matt Lauer.

They work largely at night, never get far away from a dark, Dickensian Thames and are spectacularly unpopular, as is proved in a marvellous opening sequence set in the menacing corner of Borough Market beside a floodlit Southwark Cathedral.

The failure by mainstream political parties to produce a new and persuasive economic narrative, which does not rely on sustaining impossible levels of growth and generating illusory jobs, provides a marvellous opening for demagogues everywhere.

Similarly, in Danny Boyle's marvellous Olympic opening ceremony, Asians were conspicuous by their absence, no more than extras in the various sets.

Both exhibition catalogues quote the ironic opening phrase of Levi-Strauss's marvellous 1955 book Tristes Tropiques: "I hate travelling and explorers".

It contains such recipes as toucan mash: not, as it may be supposed, an outre dish such as the hash brownies to be found in the marvellous Alice B Toklas cookbook, but a supper that involves the opening of two cans.

"Everyone who possesses a love of the marvellous ought to have a microscope," wrote Cooke on the opening page of his book, written in an age before broadcast media turned active enquirers into passive viewers during long winter evenings.

On any basis this would all be marvellous, but I sensed something special in the air on the opening night.

As Hyde growls the suitably portentous opening line – "Thunder, thunder lightning ahead" – the excitement of hearing this marvellous record for the first time floods the venue anew.

Harrington, after his opening 73, briefly raised his hopes with a 15-foot birdie putt on the first and then a marvellous par-save at the second.

Marvellous, marvellous, absolutely splendid.