Sentence examples for wondrous effect from inspiring English sources

By Dan Chiasson In "Afterland," Vang deploys a rationed vocabulary to wondrous effect.

The men circle each other like gladiators, and a gun is fired to wondrous effect.

But the star of the show is Michael Chorney, who has scored Mitchell's songs to wondrous effect: the New Orleans jazz of Way Down Hadestown, the grumbling lament of Why We Build the Wall, the sweet and tumbling melody of Wedding Song.

On "If I Was God," he worked with the Montreal-based husband-and-wife stop-motion team of Dale Hayward and Sylvie Trouvé, who helped create its wondrous effects.

They have inspired artists, dramatists, clerics, and others to contemplate the wondrous effects of Christian salvation on the cosmos and its inhabitants.

The various methods and techniques Prince employed to achieve his wondrous effects are a testament to his seemingly infinite imagination.

He focused on the wondrous coloristic effects of the instrumental writing and Mr. Ligeti's inventiveness.

Nor is he simply a thrill-seeking recreational user, curious about impotence drugs' supposedly wondrous physical effects.

Hollywood, for all its wondrous special effects, has never been able to get a firm grip on the weather.

So he has been laying off bets on himself: if the wondrous special effects prove less than wonderful, he says, then he wants Avatar, his new film, to be noted for its spiritual qualities.

The trailer shows some wondrous stop-motion effects in Times Square and Lucy's power to swipe action in and out, from high-speed to frozen and back, with her hand, as if swiping along a smartphone or tablet screen.