Sentence examples for voice of wonder from inspiring English sources

My husband is still alive," in a voice of wonder, defiance.

"Yes, yes," people say as if to wave away the subject, quieten the old opera-bore, soothe a child who tells of improbable adventures which you know the real world lacks resources to supply, But no: that night was one of the great events of a lifetime, and the voice of wonder is not so easily silenced.

"You mean you have this whole room just to work in?" a friend exclaimed, his voice full of wonder and envy.

He continued, his voice full of wonder.

"The thing that amazes me most is to go to Belgrade or Hong Kong or Tokyo and have people say, 'I am Isadora Wing,' " Jong said, with a note in her voice of both wonder and resignation.

PAGE F4 THE VOICE OF COSMIC WONDER The world at large may know Arthur C. Clarke best as the co-creator of that movie with a fearsomely bad-guy computer named Hal.

But Dennis Overbye writes that Clarke was more than a sci-fi writer: "To space fans and perpetual adolescents everywhere he was simply the deceptively dry voice of cosmic wonder".

He follows it with a bleak but poetic vision of human life that is as beautiful, sad and pointed as anything in the show: "All of us marching out of the ocean, breathing and breathing and breathing," he says in a voice of quiet wonder, "and then dropping dead on land, on some land we like to mistakenly think of as ours.

The fancifully funky voice of Stevie Wonder, her and her mother's favorite recording artist, emanates from her computer's sound system; evocative portraits painted by her brother Hipólito Torres, including one of Judge Beatrice M. Judge, the first female Supreme Court justice in Brooklyn, grace the walls.

"Oh, no," said Miss Gardner, in a voice of mild wonder, as though to inquire whether she had made the journey from Oxford and kicked her heels in the corridors of the Old Bailey to be asked such strange questions as this.

Re "A Boy's Life, Guided by the Voice of Cosmic Wonder" (March 25): Dennis Overbye writes: "When Clarke died, one of his few disappointments was that we had not yet heard from any extraterrestrial intelligence, although anybody within 50 light-years sufficiently advanced could easily tell we are here".