"I think it would be quite marvellous and I hope it would be quite marvellous for him and obviously it will help to bring us together," Johnston said.
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A little later, she discovered the Surrealists, and learned from them that the goal of art was not truth (as the Leavisites would have it) but the marvellous—indeed, that the marvellous was the truth.
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With their money, the doctors can discover "marvellous" cures for things.
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The smartphone is a marvellous invention, but it can be frustrating.
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" So there's a marvellous smallness to "The Way We Live Now.
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There was a letting go about these works and a marvellous naivety.
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The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvellous Subterranean World Beneath Our Feet.
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Merkel on the marvellous work she did by taking in one million migrants.
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Bhd, unit, entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Marvellous Future Sdn.
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"People just want to check if he is really dead," said Marvellous Chibagidi.
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Of course, only in China could such a marvellous project get off the ground.
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For your own eyes tell you that your people, like all people, are marvellous.
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The latest contestant in this marvellous game is the artist D.R.A.M. D.R.A.M, your boy.
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He had opened his white shirt a little; he was tanned, he was marvellous.
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The store will also make a one-off donation to Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity.
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With the music the baby seemed to be dancing, moving arms, legs and head. Marvellous.
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Blankson-Wood, working in a kind of tonal counterpoint with Udom, is marvellous as Dembe.
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You are in a lonely, yet marvellous place, which is addictive and can't be left anymore.
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Instead, he reimagined Petipa's creation as a new piece, "Harlequinade," with at least two marvellous roles.
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" Afterward, a man in front of her turned to his companion and said, "Wasn't that marvellous!
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Ms Ronan is never less than a marvellous performer, and her Jo is vibrant and energetic.
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But, while it's great for taking videos of ~objects~, it's not all that marvellous for taking selfies.
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Several multilingual characters, including the marvellous Christoph Waltz, alternate languages in the service of crucial plot points.
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I've never had a boyfriend at Christmas, and year after year it's been nothing short of marvellous.
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The Marvellous marble one under the Living universe heading will do, a rotating shot of Earth from space.
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"With objects from the war, they succeeded in creating marvellous objects, true pieces of art," Chantal Giudice said.
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BLESSED with tropical beaches, bossa nova and balletic footballers, Brazil seems like a marvellous place to be young.
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Ms Groff's writing is marvellous, her insights keen, each story a glittering, encrusted treasure hauled from the deep.
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But I was able to film her last poem, Death of a Hooker, which was a marvellous gift.
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Then there's the Dragon style which, to not put too fine a point on it, looks bloody marvellous.
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Dave Swindells's marvellous photos provide a fashion history of the movement, while Matthew Smith's show its politicised side.
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Imagine how marvellous it would be if all of my paintings simply shriveled up and died along with me.
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The occasional purple patch is forgivable, for he is an exceptionally good storyteller with a marvellous eye for detail.
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So I thought since then, wow, how marvellous it would be to write a story about liberalism, taking this model.
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"It's marvellous to be home again and hopefully we won't have to do any more travelling this year… Wishful thinking!"
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It was marvellous to watch Whittaker repeatedly go through the same sequence and completely mitigate much of Romero's incredible ability.
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She listened with a tight, patient smile as people recommended Xanax and gave her the names of their marvellous therapists.
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Her footwork as a defensive fighter has been marvellous and she has never looked to be fighting on instinct alone.
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When I look at the footage now, it seems the perfect emblem of that place: wild and dreamlike and marvellous.
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The N.B.A., by contrast, is doing a marvellous job of ensuring the best players from all over the world shine.
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ROALD DAHL had long delighted children with his tales of giant peaches, chocolate factories, marvellous medicines and champions of the world.
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In 1962, he published the marvellous "Willowdale Handcar," in which three young people take off one day on a railroad handcar.
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The bar is then wrapped in 24 karat gold leaf, which is edible, topped with whole rose buds and rose jelly. Marvellous.
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Douglas Costa was the hero on the night for Juve as the Brazilian scoring a marvellous winning goal in the 93rd minute.
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Sumptuously dense and dark, with a patch of sky blue, the work comes perilously close to being a sure-enough marvellous painting.
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Mariah Carey's marvellous New Year's Eve meltdown inspired the Pacers to roll out a "Lip Sync Cam" for fans to sing along with.
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Fight legend or not, it was sheer bloody marvellous to behold and a great result for a foreign kick fighter on Thai turf.
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There's a marvellous scene in the Austrian Alps, where Per has travelled after the couple's engagement, and where Jakobe has arrived without notice.
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It could at times be tepid, but when inspiration struck him, as it still frequently did, it was a style that permitted marvellous subtlety.
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Mr Adamson deserves to be considered in their company on the basis of his marvellous music, an anthology of which has just been released.
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Watch Dogs 2 has done a marvellous job of capturing the bombastic qualities of hacker culture without relying on the clandestine, shadowy hacker trope.
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It would be marvellous to sit in a sunny room with my grandchildren someday and re-living my childhood with them through my Sylvanians.
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I want to share the marvellous ruse with someone, but what can I say, that an exhausted woman in her forties appears as such?
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"It's a dream, it's marvellous," said David Regalos, an estate agent who had brought his teenage daughter for what he saw as a historic occasion.
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So I feel like New York has been this marvellous telephone wire for me to perch on, and I can come back here and perch.
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The Marvellous Mechanical Museum, an exhibition of rare automata and clockwork from the 17th-century to the present, opened at Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park.
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Frankly it's gone up and down through history," he told CNBC, adding that a fall in the value of the pound would "absolutely marvellous for exports.
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And for all its famed physical attributes, cidade maravilhosa lacks the geographic and climatic traits that make for marvellous athletic performance, especially in track and field.
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"There's an absolutely marvellous moment, when the soul sees God and there is a cataclysmic chord, after which the soul screams, 'Take me away,' " Over said.
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"Programs of that kind are an excellent indication of the inadequacy of our present control over a marvellous facility," the Iowa senator Clyde Herring, a Democrat, declared.
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Their hands were pressed to the glass like visors as they talked excitedly about what they saw inside, as if something marvellous were moving through the aisles.
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The reader might have wished instead for more on the Vijayanagara empire, which united much of the south for over 200 years, and its marvellous temples in Hampi.
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Her contradictory impulses—regarding the Surrealist movement, "female" subject matter and the act of painting itself—result in work that is, to twist Breton's words, "marvellous and disturbing".
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Could it be that the marvellous flavors I experience when I am high are made possible because the part of my brain that limits taste sensations is turned off?
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This episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast finds me, Mike, chatting about some of the best games of 2017 so far in the company of two marvellous guests—VideoGamer.
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While the glazed-tile walls of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus are absolutely marvellous on their own, it's the outside of the Terminus that becomes especially breath-taking once the sun sets.
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Did the looters trash crumbly tablets that weren't pretty enough for the market but, in the hands of archaeologists and epigraphers, could have told us marvellous and ground-breaking things?
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The Foxes' tale is one of sustained and fantastic improbability, stretching into incredulity, that has nurtured a nation's imagination and its love of an underdog for almost nine marvellous months.
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This marvellous confusion of the spoken and the written, Chinese and English, meaning and mellifluousness, creates, for Lee, an astonishing vocabulary of possible "moves" for his poems on the page.
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" At sixteen, she and her girlfriends began hanging out at a coffee bar in the York Theatre Royal "to flirt with the boys, or not flirt—be elusive and marvellous.
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Mr MacGregor and Ms Cook do justice to these marvellous objects, at the same time driving home the point that humans are "hard-wired" for religion, a concept they both use.
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In Mark Forsyth's marvellous book, "The Etymologicon", and largely corroborated by the Oxford English Dictionary, feisty, in the sense of "spirited", is derived from "fist" or "feist", meaning a small dog.
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In the snow we are angelic and it's not discouraging in fact it is marvellous when the snow has its arms around us and we walk the streets as if safe.
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Gently guiding opponents to the edge of the ring, pushing them out, and catching them so that they would not fall off the lip of the area, Kisenosato was stoically marvellous.
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Rocket is marvellous in its sonic variety, and it calcifies the image of Giannascoli as a kid who can go wherever he wants, whenever he chooses, and always produce something fascinating.
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In spite of being Ferrari's signature color, red is also a standard option from Lamborghini, the other Italian super sports car manufacturer with a glorious history and a penchant for marvellous aesthetics.
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Reiko, now forty, was wearing a simple navy sweater, a plaid scarf, and a marvellous aquamarine wool coat that looked like it was in softer focus than the rest of the room.
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One of the marvellous things about the country is the multitudes of fried chicken franchises selling fried chicken from states not known for fried chicken on the other side of the Atlantic.
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I was driving towards Kranj, the capital of Gorenjska region in the Slovenian Alps, when I suddenly coughed a marvellous sight of haze game in the fields rushing by the car window.
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Della Valle added that so-called Millenials - young consumers - "are a marvellous thing, but not for everyone, and certainly not all the time" as the group focuses on its more classical looking products.
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AN AWARD-WINNING series, "The Marvellous Mrs Maisel", follows the fortunes of a woman in the 1003s who undergoes an unlikely transformation from a typical housewife of the day into a talented standup comedian.
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The building, which once served as the local town hall, boasts rococo wall carvings, a statue of Pallas Athena set into an exterior sconce, two interior courtyards and a marvellous onion-domed clock tower.
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It's a marvellous coup de théâtre, assisted by Philippe Jordan's propulsive conducting, and at first sight it seems to offer a smug, empty message: the sublimity of German genius overcomes the nightmare of history.
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Most importantly though, bouncing is a marvellous means of hiding what the feet are doing and moving the fighter into a closer range before he has performed that fencing-like lunge into a longer stance.
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Yet was there a sort of indefinite, half-attained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it, till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant.
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And so, on the eve of the most anticipated fight to bless boxing in a long time, Gennady Golovkin versus Canelo Alvarez, many are asking if Golovkin's marvellous ring-cutting feet are beginning to look like clay.
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How marvellous it must have felt to break free from her biographer's careful diligence and plunder "the grab bag of the actual," as she puts it in the novel—to be the artist and not the interpreter.
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Melville later described his experiences of the Second World War as awful, horrible, and marvellous, and discovered a surprising nostalgia for the period, as if its intensity were a legacy on which he could continue to draw.
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Another of his poems speculates that a law the British Empire established on how to handle mermaids (in essence: turn them into colonial subjects) led the marvellous creatures to withdraw from all further contact with the human race.
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While delighted that his city - which he referred to by its nickname "Marvellous City" - was hosting the Games, he lamented that Olympic tickets to see Brazilian pair Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas were out of reach for him.
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In 1966, after a few months of writing mostly one-sentence reviews for The Art News , I was hired as the art critic of the Village Voice , for the first of three stints with the often marvellous weekly.
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While the physical excess and mental turbulence of the 1970s were at least matched by marvellous music (Ziggy Stardust, Low and so on) the next decade found him coasting along with mediocre records such as Never Let Me Down.
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With a mix of culture references and research, he finds the balance: informative without being boring, funny without being silly, a spare 200-odd pages make for a marvellous swift read, his analysis following a dynamic and resourceful rhythm.
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The voice, aggrieved and apocalyptic, mingles world-weary pronouncements ("You conquer people by telling them of battles, kings, elephants, and marvellous beings"—a freighted allusion to Kipling) with hot-and-bothered exhortations ("Your tough body keeps clinging to its certainties").
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How marvellous it would be to experience Kennedy's new work alongside another version of her parents in love and at war, spinning together and separately as their daughter tries to be if not a divided self then entirely herself. ♦
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Those hours can be like the marvellous ones that Augie and I spent together bee-watching, or they can be violent or mindless—and that's true whether those hours are occupied by apps or TV or books or just by talk.
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Among the flowers and leaves and birds, a creative impulse began to come through, realised on vibrant, small canvases thick with textured paint and in two marvellous mosaic tables made out of wagon wheels, studded with bits of glass, coins, keys and plastics.
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Or would she be redeemed in the eyes of the law-and-order crowd by her swan-song performance as Hercule Poirot's niece, a detective carrying on the family tradition by solving the murder in "Yech: A Marvellous Mushroom Murder Mystery Musical Movie"?
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SINCE the Pilgrim Fathers wisely abandoned their "naive and nonsensical" socialist experiment, America had thrived on hard work, motivated by family, in a climate of freedom, lately defended by the atom bomb: "a marvellous gift that was given to our country by a wise God".
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The novel's emotional center is diffused, and it loses the tense, marvellous effect of French's other books, in which the scrim of a faltering narrator makes it impossible to ascertain whether the supernatural elements are real or merely a manifestation of the detective's psychic distress.
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I also remember being filled with wonder at the way words could be so precise and patient, illustrating, as they progressed, what even the boy I was then somehow knew: that there exists at once a tragic and marvellous distance between consciousness and reality.
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"Diyab was ideally placed to embody the overlapping world of East and West, blending the storytelling traditions of his homeland with his youthful observations of the wonder of 18th-century France," Paulo Lemos Horta, author of Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights, told Time.
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You may have seen his marvellous creations before, such as these "anti-gravity" slopes: Like this illusion, the ambiguous cylinders rely on the viewer looking at a structure from a certain angle— in addition to some judiciously placed folds that look like curves when seen back to front.
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The chancellor has dominated the EU not by pursuing anything so marvellous as a vision, but by placing herself, and the clout of the large country she runs, at the heart of each of the crises the EU has battled, while other leaders, including successive French presidents, have retired hurt.
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But once he got going on the series, which at one point he imagined might even run to fifteen volumes, he ransacked his whole life for it: Eton, Oxford, parents, publishers, painters and musicians, deb parties, country-house weekends, love affairs, marriage, and, in marvellous detail, service in the war.
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" There's a witty entry about how the sleeper train is really just a "train for cowards," a dormitory for those afraid to fly; and a marvellous account of insomnia in a hotel room, where the narrator flicks between TV channels—"You hold the remote out like a weapon, and you take shots at the very center of the screen.
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, got in the holiday spirit on Wednesday when she welcomed a group of children from Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity, an organization working to improve the lives of seriously ill kids in the U.K. The royal wore a Christmas-ready green dress for the occasion, coordinating perfectly with the tree's red-and-white decorations and garland.
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There is a marvellous moment, early in Juliet's career as Iris, when she runs into an old friend from the M.I.5 secretarial pool at a gathering of Fascist sympathizers; the two of them know, on the spot, to pretend that they have never met, not because they have received instruction on what to do in such an instance but because they know it instinctively.
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The full list of Dahl titles included in the Netflix deal are: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, The Twits, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, George's Marvellous Medicine, Boy: Tales of Childhood, Going Solo, The Enormous Crocodile, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Billy and the Minpins, The Magic Finger, Esio Trot, Dirty Beasts, and Rhyme Stew.
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