Sentence examples for marvelous description from inspiring English sources
In one of C. S. Lewis's science fiction novels, an extraordinary epic called "That Hideous Strength," he offers a marvelous description of the inner life of a bear, which he sums up as all sensation, "a potent adjective floating in a nounless void, a pure quality".
He is a fictional Royal Thai detective and Buddhist created by the novelist John Burdett, and you really ought to be reading his adventures, if only for the marvelous descriptions of food.
The streets are teeming with marvelous descriptions: "I see a girl, framed in an open window, who is a part of the wall and yearns to be freed from its embrace, which is all she knows of the world".
Darwin starts by remarking that the objects of his study are "singular" and "marvelous;" the detailed description follows, the excitement generated by his observations remaining unabated.
Tables of logarithms were first published in 1614 by the Scottish laird John Napier in his treatise Description of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithms.
His contributions to this powerful mathematical invention are contained in two treatises: Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithms), which was published in 1614, and Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Constructio (Construction of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithms), which was published two years after his death.
And then there are the verbal tics – his description of Paul Ryan's budget as "marvelous," say, or his reference to athletes as being "in sport" – that suggest that Romney would be entirely at home in the works of John P. Marquand or Louis Auchincloss.
We should not, nor will we criticize him for it: his close and obsessive descriptions of the footwear of his lady friends are marvelous.
