"I think Widmar is a marvelous example of how an idea can be introduced and have enormous ramifications," McConnell says.
"Cymbeline," not one of Shakespeare's best-known plays, is, in the hands of this talented troupe, a marvelous example of Shakespeare as an evening's entertainment -- full of his familiar tricks, such as cross-dressing, jealous husbands and confused identities.
"It's a marvelous example of technology demonstrated at an incredibly early stage," says Frank Bates, a polymer chemist at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
The work is a "marvelous" example of how theory can point to an experiment, says Didier de Fontaine, a materials scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has done pioneering work in calculating the properties of complicated materials from the ground up.
As nerds in love, John Scherer and Valerie Wright are utterly charming, and "Two Hours Here," an achy duet with trenchant, unusual harmonies, performed on the couch of a mouse-infested house, in front of an awful beach painting in an oval-shaped frame adorned with antlers, is a sensational show song, a marvelous example of character and plot set to music.
But far from being a humiliation to paleoanthropology, Piltdown is a marvelous example of how science works: the constant interplay between evidence and interpretation.
"This is a marvelous example of how people gathered together to bring Goliath to his knees," said Gerry L. Spence, a well-known lawyer who worked at no cost for the environmental groups.
The contrary view, one that I subscribe to, is that this was a marvelous example of how sports used to be and can still afford to be when nothing major is riding on the outcome.
As with Mayacamas, you don't hear much about Heitz anymore, but a 2001 Heitz Trailside Vineyard that I had recently was a marvelous example of classic Napa cabernet.
