The account contains some of the best elegiac verse in the language, and, by setting marvelous tales against a historical background in which victory is always temporary and strife is always renewed, the poet gives the whole an elegiac cast.
We're badly educated on this in our current cultural language, which seeks, fraudulently, to make something appear marvelous that isn't exactly how it looks.
The Danish director Gabriel Axel won a best foreign language film Oscar in 1988 for his wondrous adaptation of Isak Dinesen's marvelous short story, "Babette's Feast," then disappeared off the cinematic radar.
By happenstance, I have discovered a marvelous window on the Chinese -- The China Daily, the state-owned English-language newspaper.
"Aleksandr's marvelous," said Finch, who commends the oligarchs' cultural connoisseurship, their mastery of several languages, "and yet at the same time there's a very savage side to them where they believe all their wealth could be seized tomorrow".
Filled with lush language and delightful sensory details like the savored warmth of a velvet cloak, this marvelous story will keep readers absorbed throughout.
(That marvelous compendium of definitions with archaic citations, long out of print, is now available free online at global-language.com/CENTURY).com/CENTURY
To achieve that marvelous G.P.A., you will have had to demonstrate excellence across a broad range of subjects: math, science, English, languages etc.
This marvelous choreographer, dancer, writer and visual artist has been following her own path for decades, sussing out connections between movement, language and line in ways both sublime and silly — and sublimely silly as well.
