Sentence examples for wondrous turn from inspiring English sources

And just as surprisingly, she can make the wondrous turn ordinary: a luxuriant silk cloak suddenly loses its shimmering sensuousness and is folded up into a mere napkin to be carried over an arm, waiter-style.

It reminds me of the tag ending of F. W. Murnau's 1924 film "The Last Laugh" — a wondrous turn of fate that reverses a devastating turn of events and sends viewers home smiling — and of a surprising twist in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" that was the subject of discussion here last week.

Yet colleagues who emphasize higher education's wondrous work turning adolescents into cultured adults remind me of the exaggerated Oxbridge arrogance memorably parodied in the story of a student accosted by a townswoman outside his college.

(Kehr) 'Talking Head' (Friday through Thursday) Even the most banal and overused of formal devices — like the television convention of the endless "talking head" interview — can turn wondrous in the hands of sensitive filmmakers, as this cleverly programmed series at Anthology demonstrates.

The story of their religious conversion, the denial of their roots and a love fired by piety is in turn wondrous and perplexing, and its impact on young Stephen drove the narrative and inspired long stretches of eloquent and affecting prose.

Let's take a moment to marvel at how weird and wondrous the universe turns out to be.

The money wasn't coming in, the tension built, and everyone sensed this wondrous family accomplishment turning into a burden.

She is neither condescending nor condemning in her presentation of life under Muslim rule: she reveals a kind of life most of us will never experience and it is by turns wondrous and intimidating.

"It's the way we use it that turns this wondrous material into a major waste problem".

A composer, Eduardo Reck Miranda, turns these wondrous whatzits into accompanists to his piano playing, through means I did not fully comprehend yet still found fascinating.

"It's the way we use it that turns this wondrous material into a major waste problem". The question remains: can we change our habits in time?