Gonzales was another aggressive attacker: He had an outstanding serve, a maddening chipped backhand that never rose high off the ground, a good offensive lob and a marvelous touch that enabled him to dominate his opponents from the net.
One day after he had badgered the referee, a reporter called him "the McEnroe of fencing," which was fine, except that John McEnroe from Douglaston had that marvelous touch while Jeff Bukantz from Forest Hills did not.
Kagawa's first goal was with a flicker of the outside of his shoe; his second was a caress of the ball as cool as you please; his third was self-made, as he took two opponents out of the play with a marvelous first touch, then lobbed over the onrushing goalie.
Cedeño's blunders have a touch of Marvelous Marv Throneberry to them, although the imaginative fans in 1962 made Marv a folk hero while these jaded fans have made Cedeño a resident goat, right behind Alomar.
For these artists, this techno-scientific vision only touches the surface of another, much more complex, secret and marvelous world — a world that also speaks volumes, a world of data and information.
The bread is marvelous: chewy, crusty and glistening, with a slick of herbed olive oil and a touch of sea salt.
In the past Mr. Burton's images have had a touch of the uncanny, as though they were windows onto the scary, marvelous landscape of the unconscious.
The two lived most recently in New York City, where Dave cooked marvelous, love-filled meals and shared his humor and affection with everyone he touched.
It's a marvelous tribute to an unflagging imagination and intellect, and we are delighted to contain just a touch of it in these pages.
The irresistibly warm and hard-working Ms. Delgado danced the third duet in the Robbins, and both ballerina roles in the Balanchine, with touching drama and sunny virtuosity: she is one of the world's most marvelous ballerinas.
Grand moments from Marvelous Marv and Babe Herman and Fred Merkle are in the Mets' DNA, and they impel them to commit balks, to neglect to touch bases, to muff fly balls and to make wild throws home.
