Sentence examples for spectacular powers from inspiring English sources

Many are notably graceful in form and movement, and some have spectacular powers of flight.

It may be, given Amis's spectacular powers, flamboyant, but that will only make it flamboyant cliche.

Left alone, nature has spectacular powers of recovery, but none of these revivals has happened by chance.

Now he's out on his own, in a show that's supposedly a sequel but feels more like a prequel, and in which we learn just how he came by his spectacular powers.

Rylance, whatever spectacular powers of emotion and intimidation at his disposal, is simply no seawall, and I'm still not convinced that he could take me in a fight.

I would hold my arms out and twirl, the way she did, emerging with spectacular powers to defeat whomever was designated bad guy.

Wendy Whelan and Peter Boal bring a problematic work alive with centrifugal force and spectacular power.

The latter months of the year were marred by a spectacular power struggle between the unelected EC and elected members of the European Parliament.

Whether they were painted simply, as in Stratford, or done with the genius of a Bosch, these were collective fantasies of spectacular power.

The strings were lush, the woodwind playing was beautifully chiseled, and the brasses had the kind of spectacular power and precision that made the section legendary during the Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti eras.

For while Teixeira, the Yankees' switch-hitting first baseman, has spent much of this year putting up solid, if not spectacular, power numbers (he had 32 home runs and 86 runs batted in entering Sunday night's game), his batting average has hovered around.250, about the same as it was last season and roughly 40 points below his average from 2003 through 2009.