The word 'wondrous' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective which means inspiring wonder or admiration, or extraordinary in size, beauty, or degree. For example: "The wondrous beauty of the Himalayas is something that cannot be described in words."
The captivating sequence is accentuated by the portentous soundtrack of the composer, Joe Hisaishi, another artist whose signature style has become beloved of Ghibli fans.As wondrous as it is, it's the sort of stylistic flourish that has the potential to alienate Western audiences accustomed to more homogenised animation.
But the pay-off comes from being immersed in Ms Patchett's enchanting prose and wondrous storytelling.Mr Docx's "The Devil's Garden" is written in punchy action-packed paragraphs, whereas "State of Wonder" is a personal journey, crammed with sumptuous description.
The dredging is to make way for the ships as they weave their way through the Great Barrier Reef – a wondrous icon of the blue planet that doubles as the world's most iconic coal shipping lane.
"I will leave all that wondrous stuff on foreign affairs to those who are on a vastly better pay scale and smarter than I am," Joyce said.
A delight also to find Ken Worpole and Jason Orton's important text and image essay The New English Landscape (Field Station); Vagabond Witness (Zero Books), Paul Gordon's beautifully written advocacy of the great Victor Serge; and the wondrous book-length concertina poem/portrait collaboration Correspondences by Anne Michaels and painter Bernice Eisenstein (Bloomsbury).
Without his lifelong love of his wondrous images and storytelling it would never have been made – not by me at least".
For Petersen, meteorites are both solid scientific evidence and wondrous objects that have fallen from the heavens, carrying all sorts of resonances – from the scientific to the superstitious, the earthly to the supernatural.
The west coast of Scotland is a most wondrous place but a capricious mistress, as likely to obscure with a thick pelt of dreich grey as reveal stunning land and seascapes.
In Istanbul's wondrous Grand Bazaar, the traders are often seen as representing Erdoğan's core constituency – conservative, religious small business owners.
Isn't that a wondrous thing?
Not all of those were wondrous.
