Sentence examples for provoke wonder from inspiring English sources

Tourists in this park have seemed to tire of animals that would ordinarily provoke wonder or glee.

Even now, five years after Usain Bolt burst on to the world stage, the sight of him elastically bounding away from opponents over 41 lengthening strides retains its capacity to provoke wonder and awe – as does his knack of mining 100m times significantly under the 10-second barrier.

Working at the intersection of art history, archaeology, literature, and aesthetics, he reveals a people fascinated with the power of sculpture to provoke wonder in beholders.

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Similarly, the frustrated imagination of an unhappily married man is powerfully envisaged in "Things Men Take", though here the tone comes closer to judgment as it seeks to expose and provoke, wondering at "the man who takes the image / of the blond haired girl in the lowcut top".

Garrick's performances also provoked wonder.

It provokes wonder, terror and hilarity in its audience.

But that spectacular cinematic trump card isn't the point of his work; he's no mere formalist or, for that matter, mere sensationalist, provoking wonder with his trickery.

The book's "lucidity," he wrote — the idea that a mathematical assertion could "be proved with such certainty that any doubt appeared to be out of the question" — provoked "wonder of a totally different nature".

The recent arrival of spring in Washington provided no protection on Friday from nature's capriciousness, as rain and snow and hail and wind all lashed the area at times, provoking wonder and surprise.

In 1956 he married Marilyn Monroe, provoking wonder, born out of envy and prurience, that the world's most alluring woman chose to live with, of all things, a playwright.