Sentence examples for marvellous proof from inspiring English sources
"I have discovered a truly marvellous proof," he wrote in Latin, "which this margin is too narrow to contain".
In any event, one can look at this tendency of the fashion industry to latch on to any old news story that comes its way as marvellous proof of its rarely noted all-inclusive nature.
Euclid's Window, by Leonard Mlodinow (Penguin, £7.99) The first delightful thing you notice is the extremely generous space afforded for marginalia, and indeed it would be appropriate to sketch exciting polygons and even scribble hints about truly marvellous proofs of baffling hypotheses alongside the text, which is a popular account of the history of geometry.
With the brooding statue of Abraham Lincoln peering down at him, King began by telling protesters that their presence in the symbolic shadow of the "great emancipator" offered proof of the marvellous new militancy sweeping the country.
As a polemicist, Chesterton was perhaps illogical, but here his belief in a different standard of "proof" – the feel of a thing – comes to marvellous fruition.
For proof that this is not mere hyperbole, open his marvellous book dedicated as a vindication of Byron, The Politics of Paradise, published in 1988 shortly before Foot decided to stand down from parliament.
They offered, from the beginning, the latest proofs of man's prowess: telescopes, the telegraph, radio broadcasting, moving pictures, besides the marvellous ingenuity of their own construction.
Marvellous, marvellous, absolutely splendid.
