And here is Proconsul Jay Garner, musing on the prospects of the American imperium in Iraq: "If we make headway on a lot of major things, we will put ourselves in a marvellous up-ramp where things can begin happening.
Charlie Watts, still marvellous, shows up at the seven-second mark; Jagger, sounding surprisingly energized, joins the party about seven seconds after that.
I threw the javelin for Surrey when I was at school which is rather a marvellous chat-up line.
Speaking to the London Evening Standard, Arnesen said: "At Chelsea, we had fantastic talent, we built up marvellous players, but they needed to be given a chance and they never were.
They were marvellous, patching me up and giving me food - until the Japanese authorities declared that anyone harbouring an escaped English prisoner would have their village destroyed.
Just three words, if spoken by the right person at the moment, are enough to make infatuation flower with marvellous speed, popping up like a nub of bright pink from unfurling foreskin.
But even if your phone does not support Bluetooth, this is still a marvellous shoot-'em-up with neat back-grounds, fast scrolling graphics and compellingly persistent foe.
Carry the One is a marvellous novel, grown-up, smart and emotionally intelligent about people who, like the rest of us, try but mostly fail to keep our ducks in a row, "as if there was any reliable way of ordering ducks".
It will, he says, be a marvellous way of using up that dead time in a long plane journey.
Let's hope this marvellous conductor is signed up for a more engaging production soon.
