Sentence examples for so remarkable a from inspiring English sources

Though he can't write like Dickens - to put it mildly - his tale is so remarkable a rags-to-riches saga that it survives his clunking prose.

It was a mystery to me that so remarkable a public service broadcasting (and it's the best I have ever heard) could have survived so many departmental constraints.

To begin your career with a masterpiece is so remarkable a feat that one can only hope Jarecki finds another subject as rich as this family, which was obsessed with itself but needed a filmmaker to begin to see itself at all.

Winder's book starts in 9AD, with the tribal chieftain and original "Hermann the German" Arminius's defeat of Roman troops in the Teutoburg forest, and packs up in 1933 ("just as everybody who had made Germany so remarkable a place packs up").

A striking linguistic example of this is the French word for transom, "vasistas," which comes from the phrase "was ist das?" uttered by Germans who were presumably astounded by their first contact with so remarkable an invention.

It may seem grim and disconcertingly cyberpunk for so remarkable an innovation to grow in shadows and troubled lands, to feast on crime and disaster; but that seems to be the world we live in now.

"There are but a handful of times in the history of our country," Goodwin writes in her introduction, "when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge".

That's what makes the play's ending so remarkable, and a huge advance for McPherson.

And what is so remarkable for a novel that sold 20m copies worldwide is that there's no happy ending.

One of the reasons why Steve Jobs was so remarkable as a company boss is that he was the exception that proved Voltaire's rule.

Even so, that the outcome of the UnitedHealth case is so remarkable is a distressing indication of how far shareholders still have to go to hold executives and directors accountable.