Sentence examples for not marvellous from inspiring English sources

The portents are not marvellous.

Not marvellous, but a great deal better, or so Tories might think, than lacking any majority at all and having to be in coalition with the Lib Dems.

She is fortunate, she says, that Northumbria police has a relatively good – "though not marvellous" – record on dealing with domestic abuse, being one of only a handful of forces spared scathing criticism in the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary's report on the subject last March.

They're not marvellous, but they are fun - and that's allowed, even at the Royal Academy.

Weymouth, for example, is great for sailing but not so marvellous for security, which is why a senior officer in the Dorset Police travelled to China during the Beijing Olympics, to see how things were done in Qingdao.

The new legal burdens of non-executives, particularly on audit committees, may mean that the atmosphere in American boardrooms swings too far, from excessive adulation of the chief executive to its opposite, curbing the risk-taking that is essential to corporate success.British corporate governance is not as marvellous as many Brits smugly believe.

It is not only marvellous deeds that make a player's reputation, it is mistakes like this that blight a career".

So many people have had it, and it's all the people everyone thinks haven't; the ones that people say, 'Oh, aren't they marvellous,' have had three bloody face-lifts.

Do I think that the colours aren't also marvellous on Hampstead Heath, or that freshly-picked apples don't taste as crisply delicious in Crouch End as they do in the Welsh Marches?

She wasn't so marvellous.

And isn't Tina Fey marvellous as Sarah Palin?