Sentence examples for wondrous scene from inspiring English sources

The dollmakers awaken to this wondrous scene, only to scream in terror and smash the dolls to bits with mallets.

Wolfe's competitive writer's fear was that "some enterprising novelist was going to come along and do this whole wondrous scene with one gigantic daring bold stroke.

There is a wondrous scene in Robert Bolt's play, A Man for All Seasons, when Thomas More is talking to his daughter as she tries to convince him to take the Oath of Supremacy to avoid execution by Henry VIII.

At the center of all this sparkling seasonal glitz is Prague's stunning Old Town Square, which transforms into a wondrous Dickensian scene starting tomorrow, Friday, with roasting chestnuts, pigs on a spit, costumed carolers and horse-drawn carriages.

That wondrous comic scene, which nonetheless gives that painful melodrama — Douglas Sirk for teen-agers — a sharp plot kick, is a piece-by-piece deconstruction in reverse of a-cappella practice.

The subsequent scene is wonderful: pathetic, comic, wondrous, and sad.

That Trevis has compressed this wondrous sense of memory into a theatrical moment is something remarkable, perhaps approaching how Pinter would have envisioned the scene on film.

I pray to the social media gods that this wondrous, hilarious, or downright insane scene before me will last the six seconds I need.

The urban jungle gives way to Miami Beach (where Bettie retreated now and then) as a wondrous paradise, with dazzling beach scenes that look like Technicolor and interiors in soothing pastels.

There are wondrous passages, especially the final choral scene with all the main characters, invented and real, taking part, with ethereal and shimmering music, reminiscent of a strange church chorale but with jabs of dissonance.

Lin made the first start of his surprising N.B.A. career Monday just as the Knicks lost Amar'e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony, turning the roster upside down and setting the scene for another strange and wondrous evening at Madison Square Garden.