The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1966-1989; GuilThinging; The Poem Is You The fourth and final volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1966-1989 (Cambridgeditedited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck, brings to an end one of the most impressive editorial feats of recent times, and preserves a marvellous word-hoard.
When I think about this recording, I don't think I can do them any better - that's my final word on these marvellous works".
My culinary inspiration is … Nigel Slater and his marvellous way with words.
His signature greeting of "morning everyone" became a household refrain, while his delicious delivery of the word "marvellous" seemed to make everything seem well with the world.
Heidi had had a marvellous time — too much for words, really — but she didn't want to talk about Berghain.
Hadley, cited for how she "brilliantly illuminates ordinary lives with extraordinary prose that is superbly controlled, psychologically acute, and subtly powerful", said the win would "make so many things easier, it buys time and freedom … It's still marvellous to me that the words a writer dreams up in solitude can speak to strangers.
Intelligent but uneducated, the language Jack uses to narrate his half of the story is a marvellous construct of made-up words, mishearings and malapropisms that nevertheless communicates a rich and compelling sadness: "Mam says that dad was pigflesh and pigmind, a huge mucky porker what nabbed her by force, then jogtrotted off beyond the farlands when he understood what had been hatched".
His spoken-word delivery is marvellous, often slightly behind the beat.
Words like these are marvellous.
Marvellous moments put down in short words.
