Sentence examples for marvellous value from inspiring English sources
Synthesizer maker KORG's new app was expensive – launching for £19.99 – but it was marvellous value for music enthusiasts.
Tesco, say, sells the new Potter for about the same price as two tins of beans, in the hope that the mug(gle)s who do so will be convinced that everything in the shop must be marvellous value.
Or to something more in the tradition of Thatcherism's real Victorian Values: "All power is marvellous, absolute power is absolutely marvellous"?
Yet he called himself a patriot, and while decrying the "monstrous practices of Zionism" he valued Israel's "islands of marvellous humanism and creativity".
The show promises to be not just visually marvellous but philosophically rich and ethically timely, as alternative values come to the fore once more.
But in part, I think this is an instance of what Stephen Greenblatt, in his book "Marvellous Possessions", terms "mimetic blockage".The book is about the crisis of values and ideologies that accompanied the European encounter with the New World.
Two extreme distinctions are: 1) capitalists who are productive; who make more money by in net creating far more value for the country, without reducing that value by preventing competition or limiting peoples' potentials; 2) capitalist who are not productive, who are predators; who make money by in net taking value away from others (even if legally).Capitalism is a marvellous way to create value.
