Sentence examples for seem wondrous from inspiring English sources

To the uninitiated, Rabbi Glanz's ability to pull off such an outlandish event may seem wondrous.

His biographer says that, "Hamilton's famous letter about the storm astounds the reader for two reasons: for all its bombastic excesses, it does seem wondrous the 17-year old self-educated clerk could write with such verve and gusto.

The effect certainly seemed wondrous.

On Tuesday, Dr. Peterson, 59, did something that seemed wondrous and nearly unthinkable: he entered a voting booth and cast his ballot for a Mormon, Mitt Romney, for president.

"We are a colony beset with Monstrosity," Mr. Kidney writes in a whining letter to the bishop of Sydney, "so inured to the Unnatural that the Natural itself seems wondrous and terrible".

To understand why, you have to go back to the early days of the CD, when a plastic-coated disc holding 70-plus minutes of music free of surface noise seemed wondrous.

Without any index of size, everything seems wondrous to the eye and it is staggering to come across a photograph of Adams himself, halfway up the High Sierra, dwarfed by the snow-capped mountains.

My new OBGYN seemed wondrous at first.

The apparent arbitrariness of incidents, pulled into the story's gravitational field, makes its tight social circles seem populous, wondrous, and vast.

Via those shows and their hefty catalogs, Mr. Campbell brought to life a marginalized discipline and made it seem suddenly wondrous and revelatory.

He tells the prince about the Countess Clemence, who lives in a far-off Arab land, with its "oceans of sand" and "rivers of ash," which, of course, just makes her seem more wondrous to the prince.