Sentence examples for wonderful powers from inspiring English sources

Still, shouldn't our wonderful powers of reason be able to overcome these instinctive impediments to clear thinking?

I would also have chosen Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel and cited it as exciting because it appeared early in Trevor's writing life and heralded the wonderful powers of observation and characterisation that appear like flashes of lighting in his short stories.

What wonderful powers of observation Brooks has, and what a knack he has for reminding us of how people allow--and use--petty annoyances with one another to distract them from truly connecting on important levels.

My generation has enjoyed this wonderful power: influence abroad, comfort at home.

B. Sterling, "The Wonderful Power of Storytelling" (speech at the Computer Game Developers Conference, San Jose, California, March 1991), http://lib.ru/STERLINGB/story.txt.txt

A 1941 radio recording demonstrates his wonderful power, capturing not only the mellifluousness for which he was famous, but a choked-up ferocity.

The Premier League chief executive, Richard Scudamore, said: "The success of Premier League Reading Stars in encouraging children to read over the last eight years underlines the wonderful power football has in engaging young people".

In Shylock he does not see particularly a Jew, but a human being in general, oppressed by the age-old hatred shown towards people like him, and expressing this feeling with wonderful power and truth. . . .

I always look for realism in my books and expecially in the characters, and if there is anything I took away from them it is the interest in the banality of detective work and the wonderful power that comes with being unimpressed.

Mike York evened things at 1-1 at 7 minutes 51 seconds with a wonderful power-play goal in which he split two defenders, then beat goalie Guy Hebert with a one-handed poke at the puck while being hooked to the ice.

At times, I could not believe that the so-very-fragile and complicated inner workings of this human body were able to afford us more than just a few minutes, much less decades, of life -- life full of play, work and love; laughter, dreams and pain, and the wonderful power to heal".