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"wondrous" Definitions
  1. strange, beautiful and impressive

792 Sentences With "wondrous"

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In some ways oil palm is indeed a wondrous crop.
Where can you get your hands on this wondrous spread?
It would be demeaning if it were not so wondrous.
It is grotesque and beautiful, strange and wondrous to behold.
"It does truly wondrous things to your eyelashes," Emma said.
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz.
In a piece of poop lives a whole wondrous ecosystem.
"See, I am my own whore" is downright radical, wondrous.
But Schnabel's account also has exciting sweep and wondrous shadings.
Poem A title can provide wondrous context for a poem.
He asks where this wondrous environmentally friendly virtueburger was made?
You have to admit we live in wondrous times, people.
Wondrous. Outlandish. Certainly unlike any church I've ever been in.
We embrace what's wondrous about them as part of their allure.
The deep sea itself is a wondrous black pit of mystery.
"What a weird and wondrous journey this has been," he said.
Hearts are leaping for a beautiful, wondrous and healthy baby boy!
Ultima Thule is, in its own way, as wondrous as Pluto.
He has a thing going with the wondrous Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o).
The world here, as in any good picture book, is wondrous.
She has been celebrating the wondrous Olympics that have just ended.
So how can you get your hands on the wondrous Winecream?
We are in Wayne's crazy carnival, his wondrous bazaar of ideas.
Television watching in 2016 is a wondrous and, often, confounding experience.
The Philharmonia under Mr. Salonen is a wondrous creature to behold.
It's wondrous, but the best episode has to be... — TV 1.
The animal kingdom is full of wondrous, wild and weird stories.
The tarp would be removed and the yard would be wondrous.
But also: What we do know about farts is surprisingly wondrous.
And her control of floating pianissimo phrases was just as wondrous.
Passages of teeming intensity are rendered with wondrous clarity and lightness.
I was young, and the future seemed full of wondrous possibilities.
"Our mother nature is wondrous and mystical," Park tells The Creators Project.
All these variables make it hard to study its supposedly wondrous effects.
These are the only scenes in which the adjective "wondrous" truly applies.
What Leicester had in 2016 was a breathtaking, wondrous one-off achievement.
Irving is many things: a wondrous scorer and an ankle-breaking dribbler.
Ah, Catalunya—home of wondrous hams, delightful cheeses, and fierce nationalist pride.
Matti Friedman's "Spies of No Country" stands out as a wondrous exception.
So let's dig into the good, bad, and wondrous of season five.
He conveys a wondrous innocence with his lackadaisical demeanor and wobbly movements.
Elephants draw charisma from their wondrous size, but that brings vulnerability, too.
Frail but flexible, intricate and intact, the nest was wondrous to behold.
Annie's Annuals and Perennials has really wondrous plants available for mail order.
While "Manchester" and "Moonlight" are wondrous yarns, their messages are less clear.
The last movie the brothers directed together was "Wondrous Boccaccio" in 2015.
Cohen ran SAC Capital Advisors, which year after year produced wondrous returns.
"He had a wondrous imagination, truly one of a kind," Liu replied.
Our wondrous city on the hill has faced challenges like this before.
"She was wondrous and wonderful, and she loved it," Mr. McCarthy said.
" Perhaps I could expose people to an equally wondrous endeavor, "To Walk.
We share the following story in honor of her wondrous life and memory.
Maybe it's because it's a wondrous feat to create the world in full.
When large stars die, they explode in a wondrous burst called a supernova.
This multi-sensory show (touching is fine) feels wondrous, generous, nutritive, and thrilling.
This line is an acknowledgement of the wondrous possibilities of signification in language.
"Exercise is truly a wondrous thing for health," said obesity physician Yoni Freedhoff.
In the middle of London's Hyde Park lives a strange and wondrous creature.
The internet is a vast and wondrous place, friends—or, rather, it was.
With subtlety and eloquence, Edugyan unfolds a wondrous tale of exploration and discovery.
Poem Reading this wildly spirited poem leaves a wondrous "wow" in the mouth.
Whenever this Hamlet sees his father's ghost, his face turns rapt and wondrous.
Often he seemed engrossed with the wondrous musical particulars of a given moment.
Pregnancy is its own magic, but not the wondrous sleight of hand variety.
Some one-hit wonders still bring back a wondrous, inimitable sense of nostalgia.
A. I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere.
There's certainly no longer a wide sense that automation will yield universal, wondrous benefits.
The wondrous humor Garry prolifically created and shared with the world is his legacy.
With no one alive to parent you, which is a wondrous and vital calling.
What does a wondrous cloud of monarch butterflies taking flight at once sound like?
I just think the idea of creating these tiny little universes is so wondrous.
For so many of us, it was always some kind of temporary, wondrous escape.
To watch Salomé is to absorb a wondrous mix of contradictions, lavishness, and excess.
The art exhibition, "Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam," is on display until Oct. 6.
"Wondrous Boccaccio" (2015), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, in Italian with English subtitles.
And so, the Philosophy Chamber's collection of wondrous things was carved up and scattered.
Movies, he said, give you a Walter Mitty portal to step into wondrous worlds.
Our best medicines are indeed wondrous; many of us owe our lives to them.
" My mind was blown by Junot Díaz's "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
And that box of darkness turned out to contain surprises of a wondrous kind.
In February, we drove around Iqaluit, Nunavut, hoping to witness those wondrous green streaks.
Click through to see the wildest and most wondrous happenings, captured firsthand by his lens.
Credit...CreditJoão Araújo Evolutionary biologists retrace the history of life in all its wondrous forms.
"It was just that we knew," is one of those wondrous, instinctive lines containing everything.
Mind you, not all the coral reef news this year has been quite so wondrous.
One Strange Rock focuses on how wondrous, intricately balanced, and interconnected life on Earth is.
The ViewSonic also runs quietly and produces wondrous sound with its built-in 10W speaker.
Cicadas are wondrous, little insects, and their developmental synchronization is one of nature's many mysteries.
I've had the good fortune to spend sixty years in service to this wondrous land.
The agency is presently flying an expedition over this wondrous ice world, called Operation IceBridge.
Get lost together in the wondrous Grand Bazaar, taking in the heady scents of spices.
And it still surprises me how squeamish some Americans are about this wondrous sanitary device.
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — Final rounds of the British Open at Carnoustie are historically weird and wondrous.
Every now and then, the trunks of the two species twined into hulking, wondrous masses.
The salamanders themselves are wondrous little monsters with granular skin the color of Dijon mustard.
This sets off a series of enchanted discoveries that stretch the imagination in wondrous ways.
We don't want these wondrous new creatures calling us names that signify old age, either.
Unfortunately, Jeep likely will never build a production version of such a wondrous retro machine.
There's not a lot of baggage, but the places you might visit can be wondrous.
Governments can do many, wondrous things, from going to the moon to building the ISS.
The iconic movie of the era, "Saturday Night Fever," from 1977, is a wondrous paradox.
At times, we're shown what wondrous innards lie beneath skin, revealing physiological systems typically unseen.
It's nuts — a fool's fantasy that blossoms, with every slow-motion replay, into wondrous fact.
And every time I rewatch the scene, I remember how wondrous superheroes can truly be.
There will be nothing but praise and celebration for having known this wondrous woman at all.
As wondrous and seemingly complete as Davis already is, not even he floats above basic math.
Then, suddenly, the chaos of my life becomes a wondrous adventure teeming with abundance and love.
When she actually stopped thinking about his wondrous body, though, she realized how right he was.
It's fantastical, and it's hard to grasp, but the final product is truly, without exaggeration, wondrous.
Carbon fiber is wondrous for its light weight and strength, but it's a pain to make.
Screenshot: TwitterWhen they looked to the future, some in the 20th century imagined wondrous technological advancements.
"SXF" revolves around a pretty classic rave energy, lighting up the dancefloor in a wondrous neon.
What a wondrous way to understand and live in a built environment—through its evolutionary origins.
As fans, we should celebrate Lee's work and the wondrous comic book worlds he helped create.
For that wondrous moment, and the giddy hours leading up to it, our differences were irrelevant.
The briefly wondrous genius hero, it turns out, is just as human as any of us.
In concerts and cabarets, this number is often rendered as a wondrous paean to awakening love.
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," Junot Díaz Everyone knows Junot Díaz is the man.
First up, we explained why Tor, that wondrous anonymizer, is now easier to use than ever.
These paintings too are often moving, and an entire room of such works is absolutely wondrous.
Its colors were inspired by the aurora, and the patterns are both wondrous and scientifically guided.
The keeper could have been better positioned, sure, but it was a wondrous thing to behold.
"Medieval Monsters" abounds in wondrous creatures, often rendered in rich colors and a flat, cartoonish style.
I remember a wondrous interlude when we had the best of both Vietnamese and American worlds.
I kept expecting those walls to fall away, revealing something wondrous, but they remain flimsily upright.
His Houston Astros teammate, Jose Altuve, will probably do something wondrous against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Words like "magical" and "wondrous" and "sacred" pop up more often than you wish they would.
I'd like to think that humankind has more claim to survival than those weird, wondrous creatures.
In "Nutcracker" terms, that means the wondrous Waltz of the Snowflakes is just around the corner.
You could potentially catch more fish this way or just watch the wondrous ways of nature.
Until then, it remains a system of wondrous Cartesian theoretical clarity that is baffling to most.
She's a linguistics professor tasked with mastering a stunningly strange alien alphabet, and she is wondrous.
I am left to imagine the effect of the actual watercolors, which must have been wondrous.
The solar system is massive, environmental network, and each world is a vibrant and wondrous laboratory.
With both films, the true strength of the visuals lies in the wondrous ideas behind the effects.
Lush green forest that seems to extend forever, dotted by crystal clear waterfalls and wondrous ancient ruins.
Working within this curious literary constraint, Mr. Griffiths created song texts of wondrous variety and metaphoric power.
So Royole hurriedly threw the FlexPai together and let the world gawk at its wondrous, foldable awfulness.
Participating in their evolution is the most joyful, wondrous, compelling experience every single day of my life.
Despite the stark differences between each period of his work, one can find a wondrous thread throughout.
These and other sculptures cast bewitching shadows on the walls, making the basic architecture seem downright wondrous.
Our society has always shared a wondrous hope that maybe a whimsical notion could be proven true.
I'm so used to American drivers' boorish behavior behind the wheel, this was an especially wondrous courtesy.
Forest scenes are described as a contemporary interpretation of the wondrous writing in the Grimms' Fairy Tales.
On Baseball HOUSTON — Of all his wondrous statistics this season, Jose Altuve cares most about games played.
Few filmmakers make the world seem more wondrous than Werner Herzog, more worthy of exploration and veneration.
There is something wondrous about the technologies that the characters in Manhattan Beach have at their disposal.
The impossible scale of the VR sculpture makes the work wondrous; its diminished incarnation is, well, diminished.
While De Giuli's process sounds incredibly time-consuming, the results are definitely beautiful and wondrous to behold.
His project titled Magical Contamination archives photos of bacteria and yeast in Petri dishes to wondrous surprise.
One of the wondrous things about the NFL is that every week is a referendum on everything.
A wondrous mystery opens as the ABABBCC rhyme scheme of the stanzas shifts in the final couplet.
The dream of beauty — and its realization in these wondrous paintings — cannot be separated from that nightmare.
He will apply all of his wondrous skills and acumen all for the benefit of the nation.
Throughout the novel, beauty and violence coexist in a universe that seems by turns cruel and wondrous.
Many Australians probably don't even notice it, but for me, it's nothing short of thrilling and wondrous.
A wondrous (and hungry) patient She's on life support but teenager Zei Uwadia still managed to walk.
We also went behind the scenes at the Met Opera just before a show, a wondrous maze.
For behind music, especially the music of Bach, lay something wondrous and beautiful that could be touched.
Here are several notable companies making strides to protect Patagonia's wondrous flora and fauna for future generations.
He taught me how to be a good mom, just by being the wondrous boy he was.
With oscillating riffs, perky percussion and episodes of hurtling energy, the music certainly suggested wondrous aquatic feats.
Third is that the human body is a wondrous thing, but the human imagination is even stronger.
A striking poster advertising the novels is part of a wondrous traveling exhibition, currently at Hillwood Museum.
But this otherwordly ballet was slightly eerie, too, suggesting human ability to restage nature's most wondrous mysteries.
Since then, Goldstein, Zhang and others have become increasingly adept at coaxing bacteria into strange and wondrous acts.
There is an invisible but wondrous world just under your feet — full of roots, bugs, and burrowing creatures.
Our wondrous earth is full of hol(e)y mysteries — chief of which is this dog's butt hole.
That Mr. Hamelin played both works with technical dazzle and wondrous subtleties made the music seem even wilder.
Check out the pics ... and get a load of this brunette bikini babe and all her wondrous curves.
Astro Bot is packed with wondrous ideas and level design that'll have you marveling at the developers' ingenuity.
Instead of the wondrous smell of toasted marshmallows, melting this 3D-printed creation only creates toxic plastic fumes.
We're so accustomed to the wonders of modern medicine we take for granted how wondrous it really is.
It looks a little clunky here in the real world, but in virtual reality it must be wondrous.
Berman's essays make the reader experience historical change as he did—as something urgent, frightening, but also wondrous.
But it seems incongruous that we should have to hate the ISPs that bring us this wondrous thing.
It is impressive, too, to see how close everything comes to the wondrous standards set by "Mary Poppins".
A wondrous time-lapse video of a hatching newt starts with a single cell, shot at incredible resolution.
Alice taught herself how to play the harp, which can sound wondrous and mystical even in amateur hands.
"Next Thing" (Bayonet) Snapshots of teenage wonder and malaise dominate "Next Thing," the wondrous new Frankie Cosmos album.
Less occasionally we see projections mapped onto sculptures or smaller surfaces, exploring both artforms in mesmerizing, wondrous union.
It was wondrous stuff for The Trib and for another book, "I Went to the Soviet Arctic" (20073).
She unearths so many strange, wondrous facts that my exclamation marks in the margin resemble elaborate Morse code.
That happened just as Google Maps and GPS and other tools were enabling more wondrous mobile-based services.
Despite its flaws, Fairy Tale Fashion does bring to life stories from our childhood in a wondrous way.
On Thursday, 2016's only full moon in Aquarius electrifies the skies and makes the weird just plain wondrous.
We've used it to send rockets to the moon, and to invent wondrous things like pizza and air conditioning.
Mr. Polenzani sang this haunting aria of remembrance with wondrous lyrical tenderness while conveying the music's gently swaying gait.
I try to remember my previous life, filled with interesting characters, connections, wondrous places I have lived and visited.
A heroic feat to bring the wondrous complexities of the universe to all outside of specialists in this field.
"If any insecurity tries to creep in, I focus on the wondrous things my body's given me," she adds.
These shots are never not mundane, even when they're capturing a wondrous explosion of light in the night's sky.
The wondrous details of the world await us all: It just can take a few weeks to reach them.
But the same woodies that look so wondrous from afar can be rickety, shaky and head-jangling to ride.
Falling somewhere between rococo and 18th century portraiture are the bombastic, wondrous digital paintings of English artist Ray Caesar.
The films would take a realist image "and make it magnificent, wondrous and fantastic, literally incredible," Mr. Cahill said.
What makes Theron and Penn's story so scary is that "ghosting" is actually happening all across this wondrous country.
But beware: a strict diet of only tonkotsu ramen probably won't have the same wondrous effects on your health.
If the libretto contorts itself again and again, Handel seizes each opportunity to explore complex emotions through wondrous music.
Look for deer lying on the spongy grass among the weathered obelisks, statuary and stones in this wondrous place.
She was nearly a decade older, perpetually draped in scarves and jewelry, with a wondrous frizz of auburn hair.
Brown is a woman of wondrous drive and ambition, arcing through the world as if fired from a cannon.
His novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, and drew rapturous reviews.
Mr. Trifonov dispatches the music's breathless runs with crispness, clarity and wondrous lightness, even during a sotto voce passage.
But until universal consciousness-raising takes full and wondrous effect, we need strong anti-racist public and institutional policies.
"Watchmen" is a first-class entertainment out of the box, immediately creating a sad and wondrous retro-futuristic world.
" The book that most recently made me laugh, though, was Junot Díaz's "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
But as technology, and corroborating evidence, supported Wegener's theory, our understanding of the planet became more surprising and wondrous.
It's wondrous to behold — and if the writers go that way in the show, I will shed tears of joy.
For six hundred pages, the novel follows Carisdall as he travels around the island, wondering blandly at Icaria's wondrous wonders.
Behold, its wondrous glory: The observation platform is 466 square meters (5,015 square feet) big, and can hold 200 people.
Every once in a while, a meme rises up from the wondrous bog of entertaining nonsense that is the Internet.
This wild, wondrous, fully-formed sexual and artistic character is the reason the show and many like it should exist.
It fuses the illustrator's need for aesthetics and style with 3D modeling, giving the resulting illustrated worlds some wondrous depths.
Some enterprising folks created an all-meat nativity scene that is at once both wondrous and suitable for breakfast. Incredible.
With all these hallucinations, it's wondrous as to what, or who else we've seen from Baptiste's panorama that doesn't exist.
We had plans to reach the entire student population with the wondrous word of God, and we went all out.
It's wondrous how a film so revolutionary as Kathleen Collins' Losing Ground carries has such an easy breeziness about it.
When wood, varnishes, and strings are assembled in just the right way, the result is wondrous: a violin, a piano.
It sucks so bad to see minds as wondrous as certain ones in this genre getting neglected as they do.
It's when the narrative dries up or goes astray that the images, however wondrous, tend to get stranded and stuck.
In theory, the show's conceit, as well as its wondrous music, should tear our sentimental and weathered old hearts out.
This was not an erotic set of curves but something even more wondrous, the basic body, the primitive physical structure.
When Brad looks confused, Cunanan spins again, in a monologue so wondrous it deserves reproduction: I said I'm a banker.
She emerges, and just like Lucy, we're left with a disappointing reality after a brief glimpse at the wondrous possibilities. 
Clearly for Ms. Saar, the natural and supernatural worlds are extensions of each other, equally wondrous and beyond complete comprehension.
It highlights wondrous works throughout history and across cultures, exploring the idea that creative imagination is what makes us human.
However, Mr. de Leeuw's conducting of this wondrous score — a mash of styles, colors and intricate textures — was a revelation.
The wondrous comedy stars Kat Dennings as Jules, a woman who was just dumped by her boyfriend of five years.
You've even come to trust the people around you, who have undergone this wondrous ordeal of a show with you.
But for the pro-lifer, that "clump of cells" is as wondrous, as potent, as mysterious as, well, the cosmos.
What he likes best are the chairlift rides to the top, which facilitate conversations that can take wide and wondrous turns.
Tech companies have always asked us to give up a little privacy, a little data, in exchange for their wondrous services.
When complete, they were diaphanous and airy, full of wondrous and immediate beauty, especially when he painted flowers at a window.
An earlier version of this post misstated the name of Junot Díaz's 2007 novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
I spent some time hanging out with the White Rhino, a wondrous soul who basically recalibrated the universe on Sunday night.
Last year about 50,200 Chinese still made it to Palau, despite the closure, for conservation reasons, of its wondrous Jellyfish Lake.
Still another possibility is that the internet remains free, controlled by non-state actors, and a wondrous instrument of global connection.
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You touched the very core of the miracle time and time again: what lovely charm, what wondrous mystery, what infinite love!
Superficially, the desire to protect is almost noble, the depiction of women as wondrous, moral beings seems something close to kind.
We'd made dinner reservations at the popular former brewery, Katz Orange, or Orange Cat, that did wondrous things with cruciferous vegetables.
More wondrous still is Ana de Armas, who plays Joi, a digital program that in turn plays K's live-in girlfriend.
In the end, this wondrous innovation that spells the end of driving might end up encouraging a more car-centric lifestyle!
I lay down next to her, threaded my fingers through hers, and for a brief wondrous moment, we held the present.
Nearly 55 years ago, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, marking a wondrous scientific achievement.
This is just a taste of the wondrous imagery on display at the inaugural Simon Says exhibition at the Chesterfield Gallery.
But in health care there is a wondrous elasticity — you can keep adding work and magically it all somehow gets done.
In the wake of European colonial explorations from the 1500s onward, museums were filled with curious, beautiful, mundane and wondrous objects.
One can't help but recall the wondrous music videos put out by Marilyn Manson in the late 90s and early 2000s.
In the 230th minute, Belgium inserted a lanky offensive player, Marouane Fellaini, whom I recognized from his wondrous head of hair.
"First Cow," the wondrous new feature from Kelly Reichardt, opens on March 6, and two theaters are preparing for its arrival.
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" is the first time both actors have played parts specifically written for Dominican characters.
The story revolves around Alice, a young girl who goes on a wondrous adventure and meets bizarre characters along the way.
And the setting is a wondrous gift: a forever-transforming secret government facility that serves up new thrills around every corner.
It's been an interesting, pretty wondrous thing to be in a life that is different from anything I imagined for myself.
She demands to know the secrets behind the doors and, one by one, opens them, revealing wondrous, disturbing, finally fatal secrets.
But the women's game is in a wondrous state of flux, with 14 different champions in the season's first 323 tournaments.
These wondrous gifts unlock the world for B. J. Randall gives his brother what he himself has ­always had: prospects, a future.
Their cells contain microscopic amounts of phytochrome, a wondrous, light-sensitive pigment that actually enables plants to reckon the length of daylight.
Halilaj's moths personify the wondrous capacity for self-expression, recognition of his own sexuality, and the symbolic dance between self and society.
The result is a wondrous world that Willy Wonka might have created if he had been hooked on books rather than candy.
VanMoof owners are a loyal and passionate bunch that will happily promote the merits of their wondrous riding machines without any prompting.
While these wondrous, massive objects were used to create the world using The Anthem of Creation, left alone, they're unpredictable and destructive.
By partnering with Letv, Aston has shown that it is can infuse up-to-the-minute tech into its already wondrous vehicles.
But Rubin, with his investment fund Playground Global, is investing in companies trying to make that kind of wondrous future a reality.
It's a brazen hijacking of an In Memoriam tribute, a breach of etiquette — and a wondrous exhibition of pure showmanship and ego.
Acer is getting IFA 2016 off to a wondrous start this morning with the launch of the incredibly thin Swift 9993 laptop.
That fall of 1989 was a wondrous time, and nowhere more so than in this beautiful ancient city on the Vltava River.
Yet the artifice of the form works something wondrous with the material, highlighting the generic nature of our response to extreme violence.
Their color and wondrous contours had faded; they were more of the gummy gunk I was always scraping out of the back.
They had failed to notice—I say this in all objectivity—one of the most wondrous occurrences in the history of humankind.
Amidst the Game of Thrones chaos, Sam was gifted the show's happiest moment when he discovered a wondrous library filled with books.
The performances abounded in scintillating grace, wondrous shadings, even touches of impetuousness — all the qualities that distinguish his Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.
I don't remember exactly how I felt but it must have been a wondrous sense of freedom for a 3-year-old.
It's a wondrous family outing; Bar Car Nights, select evenings that offer drinks and live music, cater to the 21-plus crowd.
I'll never forget the time I spent touring the wondrous city of Oslo, especially my stay at the Thief Hotel in Tjuvholmen.
This alone seemed so wondrous — especially when I closed my eyes — that I wasn't sure how much more "The Hive" might offer.
But their terrifying and wondrous Naples is far, far removed from his New Jersey, in ways you can't measure on a map.
Increasingly, the arenas that stage the world's most glamorous club competition are visually stunning, lavishly appointed and architecturally wondrous, but chronically quiet.
For my strange, wondrous job, I have watched Pok Pok's Andy Ricker mince pork with a scimitar-style cleaver in Chiang Mai.
The first time we really see Mid-World, which runs parallel to our own, it's a desert with magical, mystical, wondrous … tornadoes.
I could not be more thrilled to help bring the sights and sounds of his wondrous world of Temerant to the screen.
You had to get inside a nascent activist's head, take up space in there with imagery and facts about this wondrous place.
She highlights the mysteries of the universe as something far greater and more wondrous than Meg (or we, the readers) can comprehend.
We consequently have this bad habit of taking the present, and all the wondrous and horrific things it has to offer, for granted.
The crew of the Pequod are a wondrous deputation "from all the isles of the sea, and all the ends of the earth".
We developed, as grown men, a wondrous insatiability when we discovered that some parts of America serve up dinner-sized portions of winglets.
What made all of this possible — the industries transformed, the careers built — are the books themselves, and the expansive, wondrous world they created.
Cheese is a pretty damn wondrous thing to behold, but it looks like you really can have too much of a good thing.
Just prior to the Correa homer, shortstop Francisco Lindor produced a wondrous defensive effort to smother a grounder and retire the speedy Altuve.
Dark magicians, meanwhile, might be killing wondrous creatures to fuel their powers, but some are ditzy enough to narrowly miss walking into trees.
Witness the wondrous Inkwell Isles as you've never seen them before in an original series inspired by classic animation styles of the 1930s.
The internet is a wondrous invention that connects us all, but for now, the old-fashioned phone call is still a powerful tool.
We're now so overwhelmed with new information, it's wondrous if the five remaining episodes will provide enough time to wrap it all up.
"Distant takes you on a wondrous voyage through pastel dreamscapes, to prevent a calamity from consuming the world you once knew," says Cash.
It felt pretty wondrous just trailblazing your own path and finding special things you could be sure very few other people have seen.
Díaz's protagonists, in works like This Is How You Lose Her and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, tend to be womanizers.
The self-taught, Yokosuka-based artist made a wondrous recreation of the structure—entirely by hand—to show his love of the film.
An exhibition pays tribute to the wondrous vision of a Los Angeles-based artist who died this year at the age of 37.
This wondrous land has shared its treasures and ideals and shed the blood of its finest patriots to help make another, better world.
He was, in their minds, a wondrous wildflower blooming in the dirt, an immaculate, unschooled talent they were pleased to nurture and protect.
For the incurably perverted like myself, they can be a wake up call to the wondrous and under-explored world of audio porn.
One of the iconic photos of yesterday's protest was a young woman with her compulsory hejab on a stick... What a wondrous site.
But she arrives back in Texas with her relationship with Jeff intact and her eyes widened to the wondrous realities of the world.
Well, O.K. We live in strange times, and I do concede that wondrous things can be done to impart edibility to a beet.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have unlocked some of the genetic secrets of the weird and wondrous seahorse including its exotic eccentricity of male pregnancy.
Equally thrilling are the drawings, like "Infernal Landscape," offering glimpses at Bosch's moment of creation, when pen and ink swirled into wondrous oddities.
FIFA, every four years, presents us a wondrous multicultural feast, a series of vivid dishes from Serbia and Senegal and everywhere in between.
So it's operating a wondrous hedge fund, powered solely by the desire of foreign investors to own the ever more watered-down CHF.
Here's a rare and wondrous chance to see Robert Rauschenberg's "Periwinkle Shaft," which started as a 14-foot-tall painting and kept growing.
Mr. Fortner, a New Orleans-raised pianist of growing acclaim, is a wondrous player, light of touch and vested with fleet, dazzling power.
"It's an exquisite reminder of the wondrous things that can happen when a storyteller of boundless imagination avails himself of some rigorous discipline."
With the imagery unfocused and the subjects untamed, the wild animals Flint paints evoke a calming beauty and a sense of wondrous mystery.
A group of artists will stage performances and interventions at the Getty Center inspired by its exhibition, The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts.
In the windows that line the street, Weiwei has created 10 vignettes that mingle the wondrous creatures alongside a contemporary storyline with autobiographical allusions.
It has a whispering, undulating beauty made more wondrous by the flight paths above it, and the world famous skyline on the distant horizon.
Keen to experience such wondrous novelties as Peking-duck-topped, Mickey-Mouse shaped pizza, Chinese families are now eagerly snapping up entry tickets online.
If novelty were her only virtue, 15 would still delight, for an album that comprises 15 short, snappy novelty songs is a wondrous thing.
He moved to London in 1692, where he observed the wondrous new scheme of government paid for by long-term debt and paper money.
Customers wanted, they said, to search for a restaurant on the wondrous world of the Internet, then click a button to make a reservation.
And though much may be lost, most of the wondrous life that makes Earth unique, as far as astronomers can yet tell, will persist.
We could mess up this wondrous gift or else settle for very shortsighted goals and trivial purposes, which would ultimately mean nothing to us.
The players turned trash cans, corked wine bottles filled with various levels of water, and even piles of tree twigs into wondrous percussion instruments.
Caucuses are at once wondrous things — democracy at its most granular and visceral — and at the same time confusingly complicated exercises in political anachronism.
This is a wondrous Judaism indeed — and one that has little to do with anything that Jewish thought or observance has historically stood for.
Mixing is happening all around, and the results can be surprising, wondrous, and unstoppable: Who knew that there were so many hapas in Holland?
Throw him into that same grouping with Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic and Joel Embiid when we talk about this league's most wondrous international talents.
Díaz won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and he received a MacArthur genius grant in 210.
"Nine Pints" is a superb tour of what is already known about the wondrous liquid that pulses through each body, and what still awaits discovery.
Throughout their Mirages & Miracles display, the artist duo uses wondrous applications of augmented reality to create an orchestra of new installations, both small and large.
The color pink has experienced a wondrous renaissance — a rebranding of sorts — thanks to the rose gold trend that's endured for the past few years.
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is a virtuoso maker of monsters—from the Pale Man of Pan's Labyrinth to Pacific Rim's Kaiju, they're wondrous yet terrifying.
Housed in a relatively understated, three-story brick building, Macy's Studio is not filled with toys, but, instead, wondrous holiday creations that boggle the mind.
A wry social critic whose frenetic peasant scenes, wondrous landscapes, and wintry tundras still attract the eye, Brueghel is a timeless master of his craft.
As a celebrity and mogul in her field, she feels much like her character in A Wrinkle in Time, a wondrous deity who just… exists.
Each person who was stolen from us yesterday had full live ahead of them, a life full of wondrous beauty and unlimited potential and promise.
The minimalist animated art style that Alto's Adventure pioneered is given fresh life in the desert, with gorgeous sunsets, gloomy rainstorms, and wondrous starry skies.
Sara Lewis is a professor of evolutionary ecology at Tufts University, and author of Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies (2016, Princeton University Press).
Without functioning ecosystems, "everybody's poop would be everywhere," says Rachel Ignotofsky, the author and artist behind the new book The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth.
Every decision, every setback, or triumph is an opportunity to identify the seeds of truth that make you the wondrous human being that you are.
It's sad, yes, but the ending is somewhat uplifting as a baby is born during his dying moment, continuing on the wondrous circle of life.
"Having Our Say" artfully melds all the elements of theater into a satisfying whole, and 100 years seem to go by in a wondrous flash.
You can fly in space and see wondrous things, even if there are no Vulcans to verbally spar with or Klingons to physically spar with.
Amid the vastness of Australia's arid red center, there is something wondrous about this monumental slab of sandstone rising dramatically out of a flattened landscape.
For his debut, the wondrous Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith (2016), Staples has chosen an all but unknown person to highlight.
The quotidian elements of this life are depicted as cold horrors, sometimes interrupted with wondrous, unsettling sights, such as a tree on fire, vigorously burning.
Based on Madeleine L'Engle's classic children's book, this adaptation by Ava DuVernay charts the wondrous journey of Meg (Storm Reid), a bright middle school student.
This narrative unfolds exclusively in the illustrations, going unmentioned by the text, revealing how the most wondrous acts can go unnoticed, unless you look closer.
These obits are required reading, but they rarely produce those exquisite frissons of pleasure that come from reading (or writing) about something wondrous and strange.
Mr. van der Aa's stage direction, in a production that originated at the Dutch National Opera last year, presents it all in wondrous technological strokes.
The previous night, deGrom, whose wondrous season has been kneecapped by feeble run support, again got no help, exiting a scoreless game after eight innings.
But it remains a wondrous destination for the adventurous traveler, full of captivating scenery, generous and friendly people, and accessible monasteries and holy places nearby.
Bird, who had already won a national title in the 2000 season, was the ideal pass-first point guard to complement Taurasi's wondrous scoring acumen.
It was a wondrous little moment, and to me it was entirely a testament to Tarantino's obsessive commitment to telling a story through pure cinema.
The irascible 68-year-old Vermont farmer and focus of Tony Stone's wondrous documentary portrait, "Peter and the Farm," is a man who contains multitudes.
Gallmann was the latest sign of the chaos and violence ripping through northern Kenya, an area celebrated for its wondrous wildlife but plagued by lawlessness.
Each place is wondrous; for those not lucky enough to have friends around to enhance life with such magic, Ngo's enchanting photographs invite us in.
He was Missio&aposs business partner, and was remembered by Klassen for creating "the most wondrous and scariest haunted houses" for the school&aposs Halloween Fair.
"In most cases, we imaged eclipses because they are just wondrous events, at Saturn as they are on Earth," Cassini imaging lead Carolyn Porco told Gizmodo.
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Of course, I'll have to verify all these wondrous claims with my own eyes, ears and rear-end when I'm allowed to drive it this summer.
No one will ever know what this little alien's junk (or whatever) looks like, and that only adds to the wondrous mystique of this strange pin.
" "[She] was just really great to be around and made you feel great being around with her," shares Moriarty, adding that Winehouse was a "wondrous person.
" He began Mr. Díaz's "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," but stopped after 100 pages, wowed and flummoxed: "I didn't want to steal his moves.
"Getting an education is perhaps the most important and wondrous opportunity of your young lives," Trump said in a letter to the students receiving the books.
Then Danae has a wondrous dream of being showered in gold — not just a fantasy of wealth, but a hope for emotional riches and spiritual rebirth.
Occasionally, there are students who will suggest that they are too young to have experienced any trauma, which is either wondrous good fortune or extreme denial.
That wondrous pairing never ended up happening, but now Cage will finally get to show the world what he can do with the Man of Steel.
Sports Business MINNEAPOLIS — Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, is one of those wondrous new ballparks that combine modern amenities with an old-timey feel.
"All animals are individuals, created by God's wondrous hand, and they feel joy, sadness, loneliness, and fear, just as humans do," the letter from PETA states.
Maybe there's a solution: Dive back into the original series and lose myself in that wondrous world all over again — without the help of Warner Bros.
Obfuscated by time and scandal at its release, the film now reveals a wondrous coming-of-age story deserving of all the buzz of Lady Bird.
They shared their wondrous creations and played the rest of us for suckers, collecting our admiration, our attention and our data as profit and feudal tribute.
Tosi says that Milk Maids regularly eat these quesadillas for staff meal, but the wondrous thing about quesadillas is that they don't demand a given time.
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"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Díaz, which was given to me by my friend Lynnette Taylor, who is a sign language interpreter.
At 18 minutes, "The Dam Keeper," despite being wondrous to see in a theater, felt less like a finished project than the blueprint for something better.
As we tilt toward that wondrous starlight, its rays become more concentrated on our side of the earth, giving us our warmer half of the year.
When the path seems bleakest, her words part gloom's veil for one wondrous instant so that we can go on, even though the sorrow remains undiminished.
Fear festers, burrows and blooms in Caryl Churchill's "Escaped Alone," a short and wondrous play that plumbs the depths of 21st-century terrors, large and small.
Each person who was stolen from us yesterday had a full life ahead of them -- a life filled with wondrous beauty and unlimited potential and promise.
Harrison's ecstatic Concerto for Organ and Percussion and his mesmerizing setting (in Esperanto) of "The Heart Sutra" for chorus and percussion were full of wondrous moments.
They joined the native Hawaiians and Caucasian descendants of missionaries and merchants to form the core of modern Hawaii, the source of its wondrous social polyphony.
There is something very dear and touching about this bird, at once powerful and vulnerable, as it surveys a "landscape" that seems both wrecked and wondrous.
Played at antic full tilt by the wondrous Mario Cantone, Jackie is combative and foul-mouthed, bigoted and self-loathing, hair-trigger outraged and very, very funny.
Rather, he likes to play with everyday items: iPhones, keys, remote controls, stuff that adults tend to view as purely functional but children recognize as actually wondrous.
After lunch we hit up black sand beaches, red sand beaches, and stop to see more stunning cliffs and wondrous waterfalls for the rest of the afternoon.
The theme is a very loose construct that ultimately fails to contain the chaos within the wondrous maze of rooms filled with a bizarre bounty of surprises.
Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is becoming a lightning rod for criticism as much for an inability to control his emotions as his wondrous pass-catching abilities.
Enmeshed in the cavalcade of weird and wondrous cavorting that makes up the parade, there are some who cling to deeply ignorant sentiments of heteronormative white privilege.
On Tunnels, the wall contains a cutout of a geometric shape, and it earned the nickname "Human Tetris" online where clips of wondrous failures have gone viral.
I had a major chest surgery at the age of fifty, and can attest to the wondrous relief from acute, severe pain that these medications can provide.
The Hayden Expedition, sent by Congress in 1871 to explore the rumors of Yellowstone, returned with pictures, photos and wondrous descriptions from a geologist who could write.
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Mr. Boulez was acknowledged with a performance of "Messagesquisse" for Solo Cello and Six Cellos, music of wondrous precision and vibrant colors, featuring the cellist Eric Bartlett.
There's the urgency of a limited-time window, but once you've made it in the store, you're obliged to wander and, ideally, stumble into a wondrous discovery.
But at this point we've seen plenty of both, and while we still find them wondrous and awe-inspiring, pretty much everyone can "get" what's going on.
They are all, in their own ways, bumbling through lives that didn't quite turn out the way they wanted—but that doesn't mean they're any less wondrous.
"We like to feel that science and exploration has brought about this change, making the world less scary and more wondrous with each new thing we learn."
Created by the archivist Rick Prelinger, this wondrous compilation turns old film fragments into a portal onto the past that seems further away with each new Starbucks.
Among these is Cate Giordano, whose installation Heavy Food, curated by Catherine Mahoney, transforms a corner of the fourth floor into a dark but wondrous coffee shop.
Its lovely opening song, "Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai" ("In the Wondrous Month of May"), is usually rendered in blithe fashion, giving little hint of the heartbreak ahead.
"In praise of the wondrous beauty of nature…," reads the menu cover at Cuisine de Garden: Unexpected words in a tall, dense metropolis with few green spaces.
Decked out in a floral-pattern blazer and a top hat, a cummerbund over her T-shirt, Kristen (the wondrous Megan Hill) is a pretty funky magician.
Mr. Díaz has been lauded as an inventive novelist who broke boundaries with "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.
He frames his suggestions for more healthful sleep habits not as a series of eat-your-Wheaties admonitions, but as wondrous, uplifting improvements in quality of life.
Readers will be led into every rocky corner and wondrous ledge of Ryan's world through her vivid use of imagery, which keeps readers present on every page.
Eventually, this initial whirl of music does give way — less, to my ears, because it is "shut down" than because it segues into another wondrous sound world.
Just when you think you've cracked the film's circumscribed logic, it opens up and goes wild in ways at once too wondrous and too preposterous to spoil.
He asks them to imagine a deity coming forth to offer society a wondrous invention, one that would make everyday life more pleasant in almost every way.
He was a player for wondrous moments; he did not do what true greats did, taking games by the hand, bending and shaping them to his will.
So to get details on F-Stop, and from the notoriously leak-averse Valve no less, is a rare and wondrous gift to fans of video games.
A wondrous passing team all season, the Huskies turned the ball over 17 times, collected only 11 assists and took 63 fewer shots than did the Bulldogs.
After Pratt took his tour of Paris inside, he did as any good francophile would do and took in some artwork, which inspired him in truly wondrous ways.
Chaté, Tailleur and their colleagues see themselves, in a way, as being like the early naturalists—discovering a wondrous and almost overwhelmingly varied new world of bacterial behavior.
Surprisingly fresh after so many years, all the images spring from the imaginations of artists who were responsible for forging the image we have of these wondrous creatures.
Using this trusted fan-run resource, A Wiki of Ice and Fire, along with my own imagination, I have created a brief but wondrous guide to Dany's dragons.
Is it the part where Chance the Rapper says "I speak of wondrous unfamiliar lessons from childhood / Make you remember how to smile good" while a puppy smiles?
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, functioning both as dark-robed commentators and modern-dress neighbors and customers, negotiated the transitions through different musical styles with wondrous ease.
Picador; £226 The wondrous story of a Canadian veteran of the second world war who washes up in New York and then Los Angeles—told mostly in verse.
Before the Disney movie full of wondrous planets, celestial beings and an all-star cast, A Wrinkle in Time was an award-winning book that caused a sensation.
In the post-WWII era, long before child-proof lids and Mr. Yuk stickers, all sorts of wondrous new chemicals and medications were making their ways into households.
The Doctor's frequent pitch to potential companions is that they will see the universe, and it will be scary and exhilarating and wondrous, but it won't be boring.
The franchise in question involves an old guy trying his hand at being god, a wondrous theme park that goes awry, and a lot of death and destruction.
Only after the meteor-induced mass extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago could these nocturnal mammals explore the many wondrous opportunities available in the light of day.
Meanwhile, I don't think enough people appreciate the courage involved in focusing on things we actually know how to do, as opposed to happy talk about wondrous growth.
The universe has bestowed upon us mere humans another such wondrous sight — and the great forces of the internet have ensured we all get to marvel at it.
But whether you spontaneously decide to become vegan or eat a chicken wing for the first time in years, food can be a wondrous distraction from your feelings.
That afternoon I scrambled up Pha Poak, a jagged limestone peak that rises above the rice paddies west of town, offering views as wondrous as those that morning.
A clean-cut navy alligator strap and bright blue accents provide a jolt — not unlike the joy of arriving, after a wondrous journey, in a distant land. $9,400.
It takes me back to a time when watching magicians pull coins out of ears made me feel as if the world was a wondrous and mysterious place.
Some horror novels, though, feel timeless whenever you happen to read them, and Kit Reed's wondrous new ghost story MORMAMA (Tor, $25.99) seems to me one of those.
But by immersing so totally in the minute details of electronic texture, Casino treats abrasion as something romantic and wondrous, something to get lost in and surrender to.
Tiny $150 jars of face cream are backlit for effect; metal plaques next to miniature bowls of green tea and ginseng extol the wondrous properties of the ingredients.
The first part of "Lion," Garth Davis's unabashedly tear-jerking movie about a remarkable real-world incident, has some of the scary, wondrous feeling of a fairy tale.
The human brain processes information in complex and wondrous ways, and nothing is a better reminder of that than when we have to parse words or phrases differently.
If the notion of what an heirloom vegetable is remains vague in the general sense, seed catalogs are proof of how wondrous it can be in the specific.
These systems, known as game consoles, invariably promise wondrous new twists that enhance the experience of playing games — better graphics, online matches, innovative methods of interacting with games.
I've built empires in Minecraft, traversed the wondrous galaxy of Mass Effect, pieced together ancient mysteries in Horizon: Zero Dawn, and gone on dozens of other grand adventures.
This year, the event featured a wondrous woman, a new team, a new Marvel captain, a few fantastic beasts, some strange things, and, well … you get the point.
Where to look: The best place to be is Mexico because, on the equinox, the pyramid at Chichen Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula puts on a wondrous show.
This Saturday, a group of artists will stage performances and interventions inspired by The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts, the museum's exhibition about medieval European astronomy and astrology.
With a space so wondrous, it's only fitting that Dubrow launched a new web video series, "Heather's Closet," where she'll give viewers glimpses into every corner of her closet.
She has good years and bad years, times when she finds the world a gorgeous, wondrous place, and times when it seems like it and she are both poisonous.
The album's earliest tracks are its most furious and banging, with Queen B then moving toward more soulful bluegrass tunes and hopeful piano compositions that lift into wondrous anthems.
One vision of the Hyperloop traversing the desert, by Suprastudio/UCLAThe Hyperloop may prove to be a wondrous and radical technology that will change everything we know about travel.
He provides a lovely addendum to the plight of the Lord Howe stick insect, including a wondrous video of a huge newborn insect emerging from an impossibly tiny egg.
The last picture where they shared the directing credit was in 2015 with "Wondrous Boccaccio", which was based on stories from The Decameron by the renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio.
Galata Tower, Yerebatan Sarnıcı (underground cisterns that once supplied the city with drinking water), the Grand Bazaar and Spice Bazaar, the Hagia Sophia, and Sultan Ahmed Mosque are wondrous.
Both cosmopolitan cities and rural edges of the earth, from Africa to Australia, are represented in the "Wondrous Worlds" exhibition; the only continent without a presence here is Antarctica.
Nalo Hopkinson's "Inselberg" features a mutant tour bus driver — of a living bus — ferrying entitled tourists through a terrifying and wondrous island landscape of sugar swamps and radioactive seas.
Although there was no record of Hals having made the work, the experts' consensus was that "Portrait of a Man" was that wondrous find: a previously unknown Old Master.
What was once reserved for the best, the most awe-inspiring and the wondrous is now routinely deployed for the mundane, the banal and the taste of fro-yo.
For Giono, literature and reality overlap the way that waves sweep over the shore, one ceaselessly refreshing the other and, in certain wondrous moments, giving it a glassy clearness.
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It looked like it had emerged from an ancient era, when the Mississippi River basin held great and wondrous animals – like the mastodons whose skeletons are still found everywhere.
Or that his writings are comparable to a constellation of distant stars: he holds their divergent presences together through the logic of the poem until a wondrous illumination emerges.
Micro and macro collide to visceral, even wondrous effect in these large, astoundingly detailed photographs of European cathedrals and churches, most dating from the 219th to the 2682th centuries.
Micro and macro collide to visceral, even wondrous effect in these large, astoundingly detailed photographs of European cathedrals and churches, most dating from the 11th to the 14th centuries.
" This week, the editors at The Times Book Review declared it one of the 10 Best Books of 2018, describing it as "a wondrous tale of exploration and discovery.
And though the focused, shimmering sound of the choir's collected voices — which includes older boys singing alto, tenor and bass parts — was splendid, the treble voices were especially wondrous.
Americans in the West are conservationists who support preserving our wondrous public lands for hunting, fishing, hiking and camping, not selling them off for more destructive drilling and mining.
I was reminded of Willem de Kooning picking up a brush full of paint and making it turn into something altogether unexpected and wondrous, seemingly without breaking a sweat.
"The sublime is a region of pleasurable peril, a wondrous land with deep undertows and the pungent scent of suspense," writes guest curator Suzanne Ramljak in the exhibition catalogue.
They've disappointed in such wondrous and imaginative fashion that fans have convinced themselves that a fun ride in the regular season helps offset repeated crushing sadness in the playoffs.
Besides new discoveries or the intrigue of alien encounters, perhaps the most wondrous aspect of Voyager 2's mission is the distance it has traveled: nearly 11 billion miles.
This, the authors wrote, meant that CRISPR needed significant fine-tuning before it could be the wondrous cure for so many human diseases the world had hoped it would be.
The word beats like a metronome through this wondrous book, capturing the nastiness and brutality of the world as seen by a young black man in the early 19th century.
The moon glimmered through the mist, and the minstrels sang of courtly love to the king and his people: a wondrous assemblage of noble knights, cruel temptresses, and impossible loves.
Once inside, the youngest, Bode (played by Jackson Robert Scott, who It fans may recognize as the unfortunate Georgie) sets off a chain of alternately wondrous and terrifying magical events.
When the adult Zachary reaches this wondrous realm via a literary party at the Algonquin Club, he becomes enmeshed in a lethal battle to save the Starless Sea from destruction.
" News reports of the allegations [of sexual misconduct by Junot Díaz] spread the same week Professor Celis's class was discussing Mr. Díaz's novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
"This wondrous collection of waters," he declared in "A dissertation on the use of seawater in the diseases of the glands", his unlikely bestseller, "performs the will of the omnipotent".
But this wondrous future of a perfect blend of mobile, tablet, and PC operating systems in a hardware package that converts on the fly is still frustratingly out of reach.
Sutu effectively represents the mystery of the nonphysical realm, where psychic phenomena and paranormal experiences swirl in a neon haze of wondrous exploration, adeptly evoking the mood of Doctor Strange.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey falls far short of its own wondrous sandbox For comparison, both Microsoft and Nintendo are offering their basic consoles with a popular game bundled in for $299.
Goodwood is a special gathering because it works in the opposite direction: the geeky dad, now mostly derided as being out of touch, becomes an omniscient guide of wondrous discovery.
That issue was only amplified at last year's Tonys when the creators of "Fun Home," the wondrous Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, got their book and score awards off-air.
Mission-driven research — which vastly outstrips our "blue-sky" research — is not a replacement for pursuing fundamental questions across the sciences that have led to discoveries both unexpected and wondrous.
After English traders in Aleppo undertook an expedition in 1691, Western scholars and travelers began arriving to see the wondrous metropolis and its Greco-Roman architecture with their own eyes.
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Shoot photons at a wall with two slits, however, and you get a different result — wondrous, illogical, impossible, a little terrifying — that calls into question the very nature of existence.
At the end of this this complex, wondrous, and wildly imaginative tale, as Eva and Josef reunite, Chytilová seems to suggest that any mature love involves some level of compromise.
The cause was liver cancer, said Marc Hartzman, who included Mr. Fox in his book "American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers," published in 19543.
The busy exceptions are a network of medieval towns crowned by 12th-century Moorish castles, set on the banks of the Júcar River, which carved wondrous canyons through limestone hills.
It should not be a source of great controversy to suggest that Ronaldo, at 33, is now beyond his wondrous peak, no longer the force of nature he once was.
Mr. Hancock claims to have been the first to offer vegan Nashville hot chicken: lightly breaded homemade seitan, spiced to cause some alarm, and then flash-fried into something wondrous.
Granted, a certain amount of hubris is required to believe we'll soon master the wondrous mechanism that turned lone cells into whales and giraffes in a mere few billion years.
But, he added, "it still has the ability to turn your TV into that box — a quietly menacing portal through which something horrifying or wondrous might burst at any moment."
It also introduced the convenience / surveillance tradeoff: your phone could do wondrous things, if only you'd agree to an interminably long sheet of terms and conditions (and enable location services).
In this wondrous and humane solo piece, the Canadian director Robert Lepage returns to his Quebec City childhood home with the aid of dolls, toy cars and a revolving cube.
My Chicago doctor and I are in the process of figuring out whether this is just a temporary flareup, or whether Dr. Wilson's handiwork has finally run its wondrous course.
At this point, Harold enters some wondrous place, a heavenly realm that looks like the insides of an enormous clock, with gears and wheels that are played like musical instruments.
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," Junot Díaz Bought this one in an airport bookstore in Perth, Australia and have carried it around the world with me ever since.
The vivid story has flashes of "Game of Thrones" and "Mad Max" (the woman-powered remake, not the Mel Gibson original), but "Black Wings Beating" is its own wondrous thing.
Lionel Messi found the oxygen of deliverance 210,27 feet above sea level, scoring a wondrous and determined hat trick as Argentina defeated Ecuador, 21-22014, on the road in Quito.
Some of the images don't quite hit the wondrous heights they're aiming for (a creature that resembles a cartoonish flying lettuce leaf among them), but often enough, it feels fresh.
Even though you can see precisely how this work was made, and all its constituent components, it still seems wondrous, even magical: call it an engineered sublime, a sublimity contraption.
But the kicker is that politicians still want to have it both ways, promising activist government to satisfy populist demands but also preaching of the wondrous powers of low-tax growth.
But failing to crown that achievement with another title, after beating the Cavs in six games last year in the Finals, would suck the joy out of an otherwise wondrous campaign.
But as wondrous as this life may be, as delicious as the still-warm flesh of a freshly-vanquished gazelle may taste between his mighty jaws, some lions long for more.
It took hundreds of millions of years to reach a place of such wondrous diversity, and then just a few shockingly short years, an infinitesimal moment in time, to annihilate that.
We can all reference something wondrous and personal in our childhood that can help us remember [that confidence] is not outside of us but already a part of who we are.
And what makes it so wondrous is that the division within myself felt personal, as if it were mine only, when, in fact, it was the result of Struth's careful work.
When we first meet Jeannette (played marvellously as a youngster by Ella Anderson), she and her siblings believe they are on a glorious adventure helmed by a wise and wondrous captain.
As Congress debates the merits of the proposal to rebuild our nation's infrastructure, lawmakers should consider the benefits of including wondrous national parks — and their gateway communities — in the funding initiative.
For Lee Radziwill, he clad the drawing room of a soigné neo-Georgian house in London in a wondrous multipatterned explosion that invoked both the Ottoman Empire and Raj-era India.
" Had he been in Berlin on that wondrous moment 30 years ago, he would have known what Robert Frost meant when he wrote, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall.
The president and the Congress are given the chance to do something legislatively that is substantive and hopefully helpful to those of us who populate this wondrous country beyond the Beltway.
The left pretends that America can transition to a wondrous "renewable energy" future with no cost to the economy, but we ought to learn from the green energy debacles in Europe.
Her Wondrous Song For nine years, Christina lives with the recluse Iutta, and, when she finally returns from her holy wilderness, the nuns of St. Catherine's make ready to welcome her.
The handsome figure in the fedora and the funeral suits, the lugubrious voice that got darker with age — how wondrous to have known a singer so literate, a writer so musical.
It is startling how much the Sicilian writer-director Emma Dante packs into her wondrous, hourlong "The Sisters Macaluso" — though the show, at Montclair State University, remains light on its feet.
What a wondrous miracle, to wake up, memory muddled, slightly unmoored, with just the task of relearning yourself, your friends, your hometown nestled along the ruggedly beautiful shores of Lake Superior.
"Thank you for your question," Care says, appearing, and with this simple line — imbued with mocking humor by the wondrous, mellifluously voiced Karen Kandel — Mabou Mines's "Faust 2.0" bursts into life.
Maximilian himself adored these faces — each constructed out of natural elements associated with one of the four seasons — and exhibited them in his Kunstkammer, in the company of other wondrous curiosities.
DANCE HEGINBOTHAM For the New York premiere of "Fantasque," the choreographer John Heginbotham teams with the puppeteer Amy Trompetter to bring a wondrous tableau of dancers and puppets to life. Nov.
The beautiful bas-relief in pink granite known as Arjuna's Penance is a highlight, as is the wondrous Krishna's Butter Ball, a 250-ton boulder seemingly miraculously perched on a hillside.
Katsushika Hokusai's famous woodblock prints from his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1831-33) and Wondrous Views of Famous Bridges in Various Provinces (1834) are among the exhibited works.
Bouncing around my house as I write this, refining her parkour skills and turning my kitchen's entire bread supply into peanut butter toast, is my wild and wondrous 4-year-old daughter.
The result is a love letter to the movement, as a subtle critique of its generally materialistic nature, and an exploration of their own nascent identities—all built on wondrous, anachronistic clothes.
To have this kind of giant scale from politics to religion to fashion speak on the costume and utilize it for their own expression is a wondrous thing, and bigger than me.
No, really: You literally asked for it in the comments of this post from last weekend — a roundup of the most wondrous, female-centered oral sex scenes in the (non-porn) movies.
Beyond presenting what recalls an attic of wondrous artifacts, Villar Rojas took an extra step to splice together the scans, rescaling and seamlessly merging them to form the final 16 massive sculptures.
But the Mandelas are so uncommon, and their successes rely on so many factors clicking into place, that they are still marveled over as wondrous mysteries, including among frustrated activists in Myanmar.
Upon closer inspection, one slowly begins to recognize the frame of a discarded fuel tank from a F-94 bomber plane turned into a wondrous miniature world by the artist Nemo Gould.
Mr. del Toro spun a wondrous tale about a cleaning lady in an American research facility who falls in love with a mysterious merman fished from the murky depths of the Amazon.
Some of the proposed plans, like Rotterdam's floating dome neighbourhoods, have a wonderful sort of Jetsons appeal—life in an inhospitable environment which proceeds largely unchanged, supported on platforms of wondrous technology.
Given that the season ends with multiple cliffhangers, it's clear that the creators hope to continue the show with that knowledge in mind, further developing the characters and the film's wondrous world.
Party apparatchiks will no doubt engage in an orgy of Reaganolatry, but the broader public probably won't be moved by (false) claims about the wondrous results of tax cuts 36 years ago.
Like Mr. Díaz, who is himself a Pulitzer Prize winner for his best-selling first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," Mr. Robinson was elected to the board in 2010.
Over the past two-plus decades, he has published just three books: two short-story collections and his 103 novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Of course, talking with children about bullying and safety concerns before and after these free-play experiences goes hand in hand with giving them the freedom to engage in such wondrous activities.
But whereas the ready-to-wear range offered a more literal study of this idea in the form of workwear, the spring '17 couture explored it of through a much more wondrous lens.
Until recently, The Book of Miracles remained hidden in a private collection, but a recent facsimile volume by the publisher Taschen has returned the wondrous pages to all of their former Renaissance glory.
It's wonderful to see that more and more women are embracing the wondrous textures of their hair and celebrating its versatility with bodacious 'fros, beautiful braids, hair threading, tempting twists and luxurious locs.
Here's something to make the topic seem fresh and wondrous again: a delightful a cappella parody music video, set to the tune of The Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face," by A Capella Science.
Woe be the day when confidence swings negative, however, because the incredibly rapid flow of funds out of the markets facilitated by new algorithmic trading techniques is going to be wondrous to perceive.
The concept is clever and the design ingenious, but this film from the Chilean team of Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala has no dialogue, and the wonders it conjures aren't quite so wondrous.
The Libratus-Bridges collaboration is fueled by tremendous computing power (Bridges has access to 15 million core hours of computation and 2.5 petabytes of data) and the wondrous, adaptive powers of machine learning.
We're all little worker ants to him, and when we come into contact with something wondrous — like a dragon that can disappear — we'll attack the problem like the busy little bugs we are.
The London that exists in the mind of James Phillips, who created these six short plays (each theater evening consists of four of them) is a wondrous, languid place made of silky metaphor.
Don't worry, Lincoln said, this is wondrous news, courtesy of the Gaia satellite, which identified this star stream -- the wayward remnants of a dwarf galaxy that collided with our very own Milky Way.
The great and wondrous saga of Harry Potter continues, in grand form, and for those who can't see the play, this is the next-best thing and a joy in its own right.
The great thing with gene editing is we can likely do many wondrous things with it, such as potentially cure cancer, halt aging, grow better organs, and overcome disability by better repairing ourselves.
Their specificity is their charm, as with "Dinette," a sleepy gem on Vimeo, set in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, or the very funny "The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo," available on YouTube.
Is it possible that we live in a world so secretly magical that something as wondrous as Big Lebowski 2 could just materialize in our lives, fully formed, without any warning at all?
Years ago, he described what happened to Dany as "unique, magical, wondrous, a miracle," but said it "probably" wouldn't happen to her again, and stressed that many other Targaryens have burnt to death.
Now that the tech industry has become more a cause of national angst and confusion rather than of wondrous gadgets and money, Democrats are being called on to police the business more stringently.
The wondrous, sorry adventures of the earnest, good-hearted Candide are narrated by a character called Dr. Voltaire, a traveling showman, and are presented by a circuslike troupe of players, complete with acrobats.
But it turned out not to be the perfect fit, not least because during my 22-month tenure in the role my twins morphed from speechless baby lumps into wondrous compelling little people.
A new big sister — a "cruelly mistreated Princess" with "long, flowing wondrous hair" that looks a lot like yellow tights — refuses to roll over when her new sibling sucks up all the attention.
And in place of caged elephants, there are wondrous puppet simulacra from the "War Horse" team, creatures of burlap and sorcery that caused several children in the audience to delightedly lose their minds.
This Saturday's program, "Wondrous Winds," the last of the season, focuses on the flute, the clarinet and the oboe — in other words, the wonderful woodwinds — along with the French horn and the piano.
This story is actually true: Photos of the wondrous contraption can be found, along with other arcane facts, in a vast train history published in 2015 by Yehuda Levanony, a retired intelligence officer.
Governor Pence was saying a blessing over their chicken wings and mozzarella cheese sticks when the first three notes of "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" chimed on his phone, signalling a text.
His favorites range from classic literature like The Iliad by Homer to poetry like The Bridge by Hart Crane to contemporary fiction like The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
It certainly has some wondrous rock formations and a rugged beauty and remote emptiness that I admire, but I did not initially think it would ever, as I wrote, take my breath away.
In other words, by presenting the most wondrous objects in his home as an expression of global knowledge, and by traveling the world to obtain them, he was elevated in his country's esteem.
This super bloom has offered a particularly welcome respite, a reminder that the increasingly extreme climate conditions can produce beauty as well as destruction, wondrous golden fields as well as mudslides and wildfires.
Sure, digital calendars are great, being mobile and all, but there are some beautifully designed analogue calendars out there to better organize your next 2100 months on this strange, scary, and sometimes wondrous planet.
So much space junk Faster internet, from space Houston, we have a rocket bubble The space race in 1 chart Something wondrous Editor's note: This deep dive was first published in October of 2018.
So, when an exhibition is touted as a "series of wondrous, over-the-top sets for the perfect selfie," why wouldn't you pull out your camera and a snap a pic for the 'gram?
And all around the US, it was Mother Nature who put on perhaps the most wondrous show of all: the simultaneous display of corpse flowers across states that curiously bloomed together with stunning stench.
The world is a wide and wondrous place, so of course you can plunk down some undetermined sum of money to buy a car frozen into a table, à la Han Solo Chez Jabba.
Think the popular The Lab, or the surreal intergalactic androids of social game AltSpace VR. However, in the hope to capture the otherworldly, such content inadvertently creates isolating, clinical and lonely, albeit wondrous experiences.
Díaz, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is at the center of an ongoing independent review of the allegations that have cropped up.
But if it can make it easier for outside creators to import them, it could provide a much more wondrous and immersive experience whether you're on a phone, headset or some future AR glasses.
Our wondrous species has survived for ages alongside all kinds of stuff we're not supposed to eat but can still imagine wanting to, from brightly colored household products to lotions that smell like cookies.
The show has had 55 years to build itself, which is wondrous, but as a gift-giver, you can pretty much toss all of that out since you never know what they already have.
Return's one problem (not a small one) is a failure of nerve and—even when Mary turns bath time into a wondrous journey down the drain and into the ocean—a failure of imagination.
But Rimsky-Korsakov's romance "Summer Night's Dream," the work that followed on the program, in which a woman tells of the wondrous young man who visited her in a dream, is hardly less operatic.
The sun will also meet dreamy Neptune, making for a magical day and finding you in deep la la land—a wondrous time to reflect on what you want to manifest in the world.
With the advent of this wondrous season, we took the time out to give you the fundamental guide to the icy beverage — cost, caffeine content, and everything else you may have wanted to know.
If you love Google, you should hope the government sues it for antitrust offenses — and you should hope it happens soon, because who knows what wondrous new creations are waiting patiently in the wings.
These picture books, many with all-ages appeal, combine artful, accurate texts and wondrous images to introduce a new generation to the Apollo program — and some of the 410,000 people who made it possible.
Lucky for you, three of its lines, the N, L and 7, are the settings of the wondrous "Subway Plays," a trilogy of site-specific audio plays by This Is Not a Theatre Company.
Damian will also be making an appearance, as part of an essential panel on the current state of women in the animation industry, and strategies for more equal gender representation in this wondrous medium.
But a real soup dumpling — that thing of beauty called a Xiaolong bao, which is a wondrous morsel filled with pork and delicious broth and is a meal in itself — is something completely different.
" The novel is full of wondrous things—several genial character portraits, funny and exact depictions of West Berlin (bars, hippie communes, radical tyranny, bourgeois bohemianism), beautiful evocations of Chicago ("I could feel Lake Michigan.
Whether dreaming up blow-dryer-headed soldiers who move in lifelike formation or a planet made entirely of skyscrapers, Mr. Lucas still champions wondrous visions over bleak ones and sustains his love of escapist fun.
In her interview for Entertainment Weekly's cover story, she says she hopes Hermione continues to be as inspiring to young girls and women as Carrie Fisher's galactic warrior or any of those other wondrous women.
The tour will be led by experts at MacDowell and Hyperallergic and will feature access to Taylor Mac's wondrous performance into the modern history of pop music — you have to see it to believe it.
Her greatest achievement was building the memorial temple at Deir el-Bahri, which is one of the most wondrous temples in ancient Egyptian history — all while fighting to keep her claim to the throne. 3.
This background has no doubt helped in fashioning some mind-blowing vignettes that augment reality into wondrous sci-fi moments, like clouds floating on a human hand and generative 3D organisms rippling in the air.
It's time to let the record number of visitors who have demonstrated — not just with words but also with their feet — that they cherish these wondrous places and will do their part to sustain them.
Malls and supermarkets—where we encountered, and later purchased, our first bread-maker, an apparatus as absurd as it was wondrous—became places for teaching ourselves a new, aspirational identity: what to buy and where.
But the app, which lets people trade stocks and options for free, is also dabbling in the wondrous world of cryptocurrencies, setting the stage for a potential transition from "fun app" to legitimate financial institution.
" If you don't observe any of those religions, "then go in nature and just remember by looking at a mountain that there's greater more wondrous things out there than what's happening in the news everyday.
He remembers her eyes lighting up at the magnitude of Times Square and the excitement of riding the subway, two experiences most New Yorkers curse on a daily basis but to her seemed impossibly wondrous.
The stories Kubo weaves for the spellbound audience in his small village and the magic he culls by playing his three-stringed shamisen are wondrous, but Kubo knows little about the extent of his powers.
I was also a teen without any real purpose who was able to pretend that he was scouring the world on a holy mission for the wondrous G.E.C.K., a device that would save my people.
In 1982, Jim Henson and Frank Oz redefined fantasy filmmaking with The Dark Crystal, an ambitious, puppet-driven movie that tells a wondrous story about an ancient world on the brink of destruction or salvation.
In recent days exactly that attribution was made in a BBC interview by his own Conservative Party colleague Liam Fox, the trade minister, who is negotiating the wondrous American-British deal that Mr. Hannan praises.
He filled huge soundstages with gigantic mobile sets and props to achieve wondrous transformations; he unfolded grand melodramas and sly sex comedies in jazz-dance pantomimes that relied on space-bending and eye-tricking editing.
This is the challenge that animates "Freetown Sound," a wondrous tapestry of eighties dance music and R. & B., embroidered with fragmentary questions about family and migration, Christianity, and the expectations that come with black masculinity.
That such wondrous music gushes from such an obscure non-canonical hole in the internet is a joy; it suggests that there's more music to listen to and more categories to explore than anyone knows.
And with Leavitt as the protagonist, the play shows how women, whether it be as an astronomer, a housewife, a lover or a leader, are just as complex and wondrous as the questions of the universe.
Díaz, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was speaking at the "Why We Read" panel at the Sydney Writers' Festival, when Clemmons made the allegations.
Díaz, who won a Pulitzer for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and received a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2012, writes about everything from love and fidelity to America's legacy of colonialism to nerd culture.
"What matters to me is that a guy running to be head of our party, which is a significantly diverse and wondrous party, doesn't understand or can't even acknowledge that he made a mistake," Booker said.
"We are 'off the plateau' and ready to climb the next mountain along with our broadcast brethren, manufacturers, programmers and new business partners, looking down on wondrous new opportunities," said the company's executive chairman, David Smith.
Her bold, undulating lines, however, bring Andersen's narrative to life, covering pages with waving and wriggling patterns; fanciful plants suggestive of wondrous aquatic wildlife; motifs resembling tentacles and waves; and an abundance of enigmatic, watchful eyes.
" If you don't observe any of those religions, "then go in nature and just remember by looking at a mountain that there's greater more wondrous things out there than what's happening in the news every day.
Among the wondrous works on display was a screening of the little-known '90s television documentary "Journeys Into the Outside," in which Cocker had tracked down some of the marginalized creators of so-called outsider art.
Just when you thought Odell Beckham Jr.'s 2018 could not get ANY better ... super hot Instagram model Lindsey Pelas has invited OBJ to one of the most wondrous, mystical places in the world ... her DMs.
The mechanical dog would be a turning point for an outfit that has bewildered people with both its wondrous technology and its seeming lack of interest in making things someone — anyone — would actually want to buy.
She explained that the long title of this 11-minute orchestra work is meant to convey the experience of a questioning journey through a realm where once-familiar surroundings suddenly seem different, both scary and wondrous.
Set amidst the beautiful, wondrous landscape of Montana, the two boys — one dutiful and one rebellious — each grow up and discover themselves, turning, at times, to dark places, but always under the footfalls of their father.
But if Far From Home is the last Spidey movie released under Marvel Studios' expansive umbrella, the hero's renewed boundary line could come with the wondrous side effect of seeing that larger world come to life.
If you've ever been a child, had a child, loved a child, you know how tender and wondrous ages of 85033 and 16 can be: To look around the world and see endless possibilities and excitement.
It was also a real-life enactment of the question that the characters in the play endlessly debate: What do we do with a situation that is grotesque and unworkable and make of it something wondrous?
I teared up a bit at Garbes's description of a labor that didn't go as planned (similar to my own), and felt a bit wondrous learning a lot of wild facts about lactation and breast milk.
You get to be the captain of your own soul and if you just manage that, if you just took care of your territory, all the glorious, glorious, glorious wondrous opportunities and possibilities are waiting for you.
The GIF starts on an image of the Milky Way as seen from Earth, and then rockets 1,350 light-years to a wondrous slice of the sky called the Orion Nebula, a dense region of star formation.
The Met's most popular exhibition of the 2017 fiscal year was a historical one: the massive and wondrous Age of Empires, that received almost 300,000 visitors over four months, as of June 30 (it ends this weekend).
They personify the regal and the wondrous and the majestic and powerful and everyone knows that royalty for millennia likened itself to the lion, from the Assyrian kings to British royalty like no other animal on Earth.
Like much of Fantastic Worlds, the incident pivots at the intersection of science and fiction, at a time when both fields were looking to a future that would surely be just as wondrous as it was strange.
Performances of Ms. Hay's solos, which have the potential to turn a dancer inside-out — a wondrous thing — are best experienced live, where subtle, tender and bizarre states can be seen without the interference of a camera.
Diaz hadn't fought for three years so there were question marks over how good he could be against Pettis, who entered their welterweight fight on a high having knocked out Stephen Thompson in wondrous fashion, last year.
It stands on the seafront in Çanakkale, not far from what is thought to be the site of Troy, and for a wondrous instant you feel—or fancy that you feel—the ancient and modern worlds collide.
We met at summer camp when I'd just turned 15, and the seeds of closeness were planted during one of those wondrous extended self-revealing teenage conversations, when we sat side by side behind the dining hall.
Now, with a project called A Photographic Monument, two artists in Brooklyn have turned an entire loft into a camera obscura, inside which visitors can experience, upside down, all the wondrous sights one can see from Gowanus.
For Bezos, 2017 was the perfect Amazon blueprint: A frenzy of wondrous experimentation focused on the long-term horizon balanced by the operational excellence necessary to power the core businesses that are key to short-term success.
While it's fun to dip in and sample, the album unfolds its full mesmerizing effect when you follow the singers on their squiggly line through music history, weaving together the ancient and the new in wondrous ways.
It comes with a pop-up theater set by Michaël Cailloux evocative of a wondrous odyssey across three continents, as well as boxes containing candied lemon, chocolate sauce and a spice powder — the three wise men's gifts.
In his writing and especially on his TV shows, most recently CNN's "Parts Unknown," he exhorted the rest of us to follow his lead and open our eyes and our guts to the wondrous smorgasbord of life.
He was sitting in the third row at Repertorio Español during an afternoon rehearsal of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," based on Junot Díaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which Rodríguez has adapted for the theater.
On a trip to the blues belt of Mississippi in 2000, just before I began a second tour at the paper, I remember the wondrous gleam that came into people's eyes when I said where I worked.
Jörg Pohl and Maja Schöne, two Thalia ensemble actors, gave blistering performances in the main roles as they navigated Mundruczo's darkly wondrous production, with video, machinery and minimal props helping suggest Liliom's struggle to confront his past.
Jörg Pohl and Maja Schöne, two Thalia ensemble actors, gave blistering performances in the main roles as they navigated Mundruczo's darkly wondrous production, with video, machinery and minimal props helping suggest Liliom's struggle to confront his past.
But by the end of the first episode, the characters will have discovered something strange and wondrous: There's a wormhole beneath their small town, and it connects two different periods in history that are 33 years apart.
Many of us are familiar with Junot Díaz's modern classic The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but Lin-Manuel Miranda's narration adds an almost rhythmic layer to the story that will captivate you from start to finish.
What makes Coogler's vision of Wakanda so stunning is the context around it, in which it's rare to see Africa portrayed as a wondrous technological marvel and common to see it portrayed as poor, war-ravaged, and uncivilized.
And, as "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" and "This Is How You Lose Her" demonstrate, he has a style that is his own—a lexicon and syntax combining deep learning with demotic Spanglish and pop culture.
Wondrous enough to merit this: Yeah, sure it was Curly of the Three Stooges who coined the dance, but (hot take warning:) the Three Stooges are annoying AF, and so here's the inimitable Homer Simpson imitating Curly's dance.
Butler will be seventy next year, but he still speaks with the boyish, wondrous voice of a mind-blown surfer, enriched by a trace of the clipped, singsong accent that, in Hawaii, provides a form of local cred.
As Jack Miles demonstrated in his wondrous biography of God, the chastened deity retreated from His providential role on earth when He understood the huge mistake He made in torturing his faithful servant, the observant and obsequious Job.
That's the more interesting question sparked by economist Gerald Friedman's analysis suggesting that Bernie Sanders's economic agenda, if fully enacted, would lead to 5.3 percent annual GDP growth, soaring household incomes, and an array of other wondrous effects.
Rating Coates and Stelfreeze have created a pocket in the ever-expanding Marvel comic universe that's daring and wondrous, but also organic and natural — a place and a comic that feels crucial and important to the company's legacy.
Beneath the surface, invisible to the viewer's eye, are wooden skeletons that give these works their wondrous three-dimensionality, transforming paintings into sculptures that resemble bent elbows, erect nipples and pointed tongues and suggest existential explorations of space.
Mr. Koeppe said that the "Kunstkammer," or cabinets of curiosities that European nobles maintained as "thoughtfully selected collections of objects and instruments, each more beautiful, ingenious or wondrous than the next," were valued for artistic and technological refinement.
A small but wondrous Alma Thomas retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem put me in mind of a desert plant that spends all year as an innocent cactus and then, in the middle of the night, blooms.
Barry Jenkins, director of last year's Oscars Best Picture Winner, Moonlight, is no stranger to the magic of moviemaking — which made his live-tweeted first-time viewing of Notting Hill all the more wondrous and entertaining to behold.
In an assiduously researched, 18-page appendix, the brief presents an alphabetised list of dozens of titillating and odious trademarks ranging from (these are some of the tamer entries) "American Redneck Society" to "Perv City" to "Wondrous Vulva Puppet".
And while Besson good-naturedly jokes about the limits of the mediating equipment — wondrous as these portals are, they're still prone to go on the fritz like any other gizmo — he reinforces its awe-inspiring potential over everything else.
After a brief half hour that feels like a journey, the gorgeous guitar loops of "Debt" ease Flood Network into a reassuring epilogue, affirming that the odd pockets of the internet can inspire art that's wondrous and goddamn inspirational.
And turn away the company isn't — if there was a message from I/O, it's that Google is fully embracing its identity as a data-crunching hive mind, with all the wondrous powers and baggage that come with it.
Dreams of the wondrous Canada have spread across the Atlantic: when Britain unexpectedly voted by a margin of 52% to 48% to leave the European Union, some disillusioned Britons also looked to the home of Celine Dion for salvation.
The game also was classic, and wondrous, because the Wildcats didn't win it with superstars or one-and-done players with their eyes on the N.B.A. They had two senior starters — Daniel Ochefu and Arcidiacono, a four-year captain.
Not only do we know what flow looks like in the brain, thanks to the wondrous MRI machine, we know exactly what neurochemicals are present when we enter that mystical state of perfect productivity: dopamine, anadamide, seratonin, and endorphins.
As they talked, Robert strolled through the expansive back yard, his eyes taking in the trees and the boxwoods and the wondrous grass, the absolute un-Manhattan aspect of this sanctuary, but also appreciating the bluestone paths and terrace.
As the skiers rotate, one can photograph them upside down or in some obtuse position that is both unfamiliar and wondrous to our eyes or, in this case, seeming to circle the earth like a satellite in the cosmos.
Their account of "La Koro Sutro," a 19903 choral setting of a Buddhist scripture translated into Esperanto, the synthetic universal language, showed Harrison finding wondrous commonalities between Eastern and Western culture while speaking in a modest, authentic musical voice.
Every step of the way was filmed for Depeche Mode 101, a wondrous documentary released in 1989, under the direction of Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker, the person behind iconic music docs such as Bob Dylan's Don't Look Back.
Photographer Samantha Friend, who documents theme parks and other wondrous toys and objects made from plastic, went to the fair to shoot the Jazz doll, a first for the trans community, and capture the bizarreness of the annual event.
Homestuck is a truly wondrous work and you should probably read at least some of it (start at Act 5 if you want to get to the "good part") if you ever want to understand Tumblr in all its geeky glory.
"Guillermo del Toro has crafted a masterpiece, a terrifying, visually wondrous fairy tale for adults that blends fantasy and gloomy drama into one of the most magical films to come along in years," wrote The Associated Press critic David Germain.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Take a wondrous and slightly nauseating journey through western art history in a new video by Alexander Mordvintsev, which uses machine learning to create an endless vortex of paintings that zoom into one another.
He helps our minds imagine that future humans will live among the stars, where wondrous things are just waiting to be seen, and he makes us consider that an AI might one day be almost as human as we are.
Junot Díaz, the award-winning Dominican American writer behind acclaimed works such as Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, revealed on Monday that he was sexually assaulted as a child in an essay published in the New Yorker.
The latest breakout star of an unforgettable beauty campaign is gender non-conforming performer, artist, and actress Freckle, who appeared in TBS's Search Party, the web series The Gay And Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, and auditioned for American Idol.
LIMA (Reuters) - Long known for its ancient treasures, Peru revealed a modern face on Friday as the country celebrated hosting its first Pan Am Games with a wondrous opening ceremony that paid homage to the past while looking to the future.
One school from each state was chosen to receive ten Dr. Seuss books along with a letter from the first lady that read: "Getting an education is perhaps the most important and wondrous opportunity of your young lives," reports CBS Boston.
Nourry and friends place emphasis on the importance of the indigenous and spiritual in our modern lives, without coming across as heavy-handed or religious, but deeply clue into the "magic" of wondrous places that actually exist in the world.
Ms. Jahren, a professor of geobiology at the University of Hawaii, conveys the utter strangeness of plants: these machines, "invented more than 400 million years ago," that create sugar out of inorganic matter — wondrous machines upon which human life itself depends.
Once upon a time, Sage was an assistant to Ernst Fuchs, one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, an artist group and genre surrounding wondrous paintings that put particular emphasis on the techniques of the Old Masters.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Adventurous and intimate and unworried by the wall dividing fiction and nonfiction, Peter Middleton's and James Spinney's debut, Notes on Blindness, is a wondrous film, a thing of magic and a deeply human document.
A particularly comic but perhaps truthful voice is that of Henry James, who complained, after he had trouble finding a bathroom, that Biltmore was a "colossal heartbreaking house" seemingly built "based on a fundamental ignorance of comfort and wondrous deludedness."
Like faith in the magical powers of tax cuts, faith in the wondrous things that happen if you let bankers do whatever they want has become a free-floating ideology on the right, untethered to any kind of reality check.
An African-American housekeeper in a small Southern town in the mid-1940s, Berenice is played by a wondrous Roslyn Ruff in the Williamstown Theater Festival production of Carson McCullers's "The Member of the Wedding," which runs here through Aug. 19.
Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Mr. Díaz has been celebrated as a daring and stylish writer who broke boundaries with his novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.
These days, the focus is the television, not the wondrous relics from the Costello's era hidden around the building: a metal cash register, a tin ceiling, rusty filing cabinets, a set of fluorescent lights, a tall safe with a combination dial.
But in its familiarly inscrutable first two hours, shown Sunday night on Showtime, it still has the ability to turn your TV into that box — a quietly menacing portal through which something horrifying or wondrous might burst at any moment.
" In "Refrigerator, 214," the depressing contents of a midcentury icebox — "boiled potato in a bag, a chicken carcass under foil" — give way to a wondrous jar of maraschino cherries, "heart red, sexual red, wet neon red, / shining red in their liquid.
Far from thoughts of "fire and fury" raised by President Trump, this occasion will offer the alternative of simple, wondrous fun in witnessing the first total solar eclipse in 99 years to go coast to coast, from Oregon to South Carolina.
Perhaps best known for his erudite yet accessible analyses of the classical repertoire, he is also a passionate fan of those wondrous works of the mid-20th century when good music was popular and popular music was very good indeed.
In "The Warmth of Other Suns," the journalist Isabel Wilkerson captures the wondrous beauty of this environment that migrants abandoned, detailing the story of her own grandmother's sweet-smelling, night-blooming cereus flower around which an annual neighborhood ritual formed.
By simultaneously celebrating a wondrous landscape and the evocativeness of paint, Green folds an aching poignancy into his work, that as if acknowledging that mankind seems determined to go in the other direction because they smell profit rather than see beauty.
Follow this proudly impious, native Brit through "My Red-State Odyssey" across the South as he describes the scene at a Nascar race and visits a rock formation in southern Virginia that the locals treat as a sign of God's wondrous creation.
Here, though not explicitly mentioned in the song lyrics, it was nice to see her return to that dancing feeling, albeit secretly this time, as she seemed to clue fans into the wondrous headspace she's been occupying lately, away from the cameras.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "Where am I?" asks the central protagonist in The Prince of Homburg, Patrick Staff's wondrous short film, featured in this year's edition of Projections, a sidebar of the New York Film Festival dedicated to experimental cinema.
In hammering home its moral fable that adulthood in a capitalist society requires a necessary abandonment of art, beauty, and all things that make the world wondrous, the film's frame narrative falls short of the profundity and poetry of the original tale.
The Pacers' lead reached double digits during that stretch behind George, who poured in 14 points in the third via a wondrous display of offensive versatility including a transition dunk, a corner 183-pointer, and a three-point play that closed the quarter.
No matter where we are in the world, whether it's the center of booming metropolis or the outskirts of some barren desert, we can always look up and bear witness to a constantly shifting wondrous display of nature in the sky above.
Hemsworth, clad in khaki-colored gear, explores the sets of the film and highlights the wondrous regions of the country for the Government of Australia agency responsible for promoting the country to the world as a destination for business and leisure travel.
The spaces of the paintings seem to be a Lilliputian view of a wondrous world of color and light, while the drawings are more about shadow and light, and the bas-reliefs focus on the relation of bendable planes and fluid forms.
At risk is one of the most wondrous migrations on earth, where tens of millions of monarchs, each weighing only about as much as a paper clip, flutter south from Canada and the northern United States for as far as 3,000 miles.
Still, there remains a sort of wondrous spectacle in "Battlefield," in its actors' use of cloaks and shawls (by Oria Puppo) to transform themselves into gods and animals; in the lushly saturated lighting of Phillippe Vialatte that conjures dawns and sunsets and conflagrations.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have detected another exotic feature on one of the solar system's most wondrous worlds, a large field of dunes on the surface of the distant, frigid dwarf planet Pluto apparently composed of wind-swept, sand-sized grains of frozen methane.
You can visit them and live an unforgettable experience for life," it drones on with wondrous banality hammered home by additional tautology — right before switching gears and dropping this unexpected last liner: "Jimmy Singh is connected with Wonders of The All World.
Kevin Durant is a wondrous talent, but when the Warriors added this 7-foot star, who can do a 360-degree spin and drain 25-foot jumpers without a second thought, the team began to feel like a platter overladen with rich cakes.
In much the same way, Mr. Bartlett responds to Chekhov even as he refashions him, any temporal divide bridged by one's awareness that humankind viewed in its tragicomic amplitude is as rare and wondrous in today's theater as it was a century ago.
The unsatisfied, atavistic part of ourselves that harbors a dim memory of those wondrous nights in the village square experiences a special frisson, a jolt of recognition and excitement, when we witness the work of players who seem loyal to one another.
"He enjoyed kids and he dealt with them in a wondrous way," Dr. David Mandelbaum, a former student of Dr. Gold's at Columbia who is a professor of neurology and pediatrics at the Brown University Alpert Medical School, said in a telephone interview.
A lot happened in July — the Don Trump Jr. emails, the failed Senate health care bill, the brief, wondrous White House career of Anthony Scaramucci — and other polling suggests that these controversies have caused Trump approval to slip further in recent weeks.
In "887," his wondrous and wrenching solo show running through next weekend at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mr. Lepage, 59, acts alongside a giant cube that conjures his shabby Quebec City childhood home, his current chic apartment and other smaller boxes, too.
The trip to Africa probably never did happen, so the most unfathomable and wondrous sentence in the story—"After some time, she got up and packed a duffel bag for Africa, exactly as she had done that time before"—is also the saddest.
But it is a persuasive appeal worth pondering in our age, when most anything wondrous can be explained by science and where some people who spend their lives searching for God do so by neglecting the very real needs of their fellow man.
Finally, Saks Afridi has some pristinely lovely photographs and a hanging minaret that anchor an elaborate story (told through different media platforms) of how alien creatures in wondrous vehicles came to the planet with good in one hand and evil in the other.
But, I long for the heady days of last week when I could look forward to the horrific and thrilling site of my feet emerging from their soak, shedding wondrous layers of dead skin so great I had to keep the vacuum on hand.
It is hard to imagine that any man or woman since the dawn of intelligent life has not gazed out at the sky on a moonless night, wondering how it came to be and what is our place in this vast and wondrous firmament.
No doors were ever closed to them, and even the birdcages were open for the birds to come and go as they pleased, and wondrous fruits grew everywhere, ripe for the plucking, and cakes were left out on window ledges, free for the taking.
Towards the end of the show, contemporary artist Álvaro Perdices and filmmaker Andrés Sanz have their audio-visual installation, "Infinite Garden," where the wondrous and terrifying details of Bosch's "Garden" are projected and amplified on the walls and on each face of a giant cube.
Everything about them fascinated him, from the wondrous pink-and-scarlet of their adult plumage to their strange tongues, spined and hooked to filter food from water like a baleen whale, to their surging flights in flocks of thousands from one lagoon to the next.
While we were all busy trying to regain our composure and eek out every last bit of new information from the preview as possible, we were too distracted to even appreciate the other wondrous gift delivered by HBO on Wednesday: 12 stunning new posters.
His name was John Frum, and although he was by most accounts only a spirit, he told them plainly (in their language) that if they would reclaim their traditions, America would come one day to improve their lives with radios, trucks and other wondrous conveniences.
" Writing about herself in third person, the Countess said, "The Eternal Father did not know what he was creating the day he sent her into the world; he modeled and modeled, and when he was finished he looked at his wondrous work and was overwhelmed.
Though this recipe is an improvisation on the wondrous food turned out by the poor kitchens of wartime Bologna, this pillowy pasta is more satisfying than a five-star hotel bed, stuffed with mashed potatoes and chives and topped with a savory sage brown butter.
We calculated all the wondrous things we could buy with two whole dollars at the milk bar, that once-ubiquitous staple of Australian life that is one part corner store, one part candy shop and sometimes a deli or news agent or neighborhood social club.
Over the last 40 years, the writer-performer John Kelly has explored the life and work of several wondrous real-life artists, both in raucous East Village clubs and in such temples of high art as Lincoln Center or the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
" With Espinosa's bright illustrations creating just the right mood, Díaz, the author of acclaimed adult books including "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," celebrates an immigrant community and testifies to the experiences of Dominicans who fled the dictator Rafael Trujillo, called simply "the Monster.
The underwater discoveries of the Nautilus, a wondrous submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo (James Mason), may be the main attraction, but Douglas's robust performance as a master whaler offered early proof that the force of his personality couldn't be blunted by spectacle.
He is capable of wondrous effects, as when he illuminates the stage from the sides in bands: The dancers, moving through the stripes at various speeds, could be rising and falling through layers of water — a submarine world of sleep viewed from a different angle.
Opinion Columnist It is truly wondrous and arresting to see the Constitution in action, to see its ultimate tool — impeachment — employed, to see this mechanism that the drafters of the document must have considered an 11th-hour alternative be called up out of necessity.
Yet the tale unfolds with considerable sensitivity, offering plenty of haunting images while capturing the chaos and fear of trench warfare -- especially through the eyes of MacKay (perhaps best known for "Captain Fantastic"), in a genuine breakout performance -- augmented by Thomas Newman's wondrous musical score.
Central to audio porn's continued expansion—with websites like, say, Quinn, which allows amateur porn creators to upload recordings, and Dipsea, an app that produces erotic audio for people of all sexual identities and orientations—is ASMR erotica, crystallizing into a bright, wondrous form.
Millions of Americans converged on a narrow corridor stretching from Oregon to South Carolina to watch the moon blot out the midday sun Monday for a wondrous couple of minutes in the first total solar eclipse to sweep coast to coast in 22 years.
" Starring Mr. Marks and Ms. Hughes and billed as a "post-Christian nihilist pop opera," it presented a love story of religious and sexual awakenings reinforced by Mr. Marks's intricately wrought, omnivorous score: One exuberant duet combines electropop and the shape-note hymn "Wondrous Love.
To cram all that into a two-hour film is impressive, and so even when it stumbles, Bad Times at the El Royale feels like a deeply weird and wondrous accomplishment, especially coming from a risk-averse major movie studio like 20th Century Fox.
Stanford (226-353), which tumbled from the top 235 after a baffling loss to Northwestern before hoisting itself all the way to fifth, hammered sixth-ranked Iowa, 230-2100, in a Rose Bowl lacking suspense apart from imagining what wondrous feat McCaffrey would pull off next.
Arts | New Jersey Those who visit "Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam Through Time and Place" at the Newark Museum may also be interested in a screening of "A Thousand and One Journeys: The Arab Americans," an award-winning documentary currently on the festival and screenings circuit.
Even if we cast off the influential films, the novels are filled with decks that allow hackers to fly through cyberspace, drones controlled by devious multinational corps, cybernetic implants, rotting locales, neomodern space stations, and a whole host of wondrous images that demand we pay close attention.
It was on a boat trip here to Godstow on a summer day in 1862 that Charles Dodgson — an Oxford mathematician better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll — spun a wondrous tale for young Alice Liddell and her sisters, which he published a few years later.
Housing in Oakland was cheaper than in San Francisco, which had grown preposterously expensive: The part of the city that had once housed techno raves and all the wondrous weirdness that spawned Burning Man itself was now home to tech titans like Dropbox, Reddit and Airbnb.
Corinna went out to his home studio in Pennsylvania, and we pulled together some highlights from a rich career of wondrous sounds: Here's "Black Angels," inspired by the Vietnam War and written for amplified string quartet, complete: And here's the much-loved "Vox Balaenae": In other news!
Losing herself in "this blind prison of grief," she finds her literary voice, a wondrous alchemy of deep, even suicidal, emotion: My own hand, encouraged so often by grief, would have done it, but then my burning zeal to find him again keeps holding me back.
Not long ago, Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras, the co-founders of Atlas Obscura, a crowdsourced online compendium of "wondrous and curious places," visited the so-called Tweed tunnels, escorted by Amy Rosoff and Mike Gordon, middle-aged friends who submitted the tunnels to the site.
When he returns to the piano, he glances at me and swings into the next number, Rodgers and Hart's 1926 standard, "Manhattan"; a moment later, a few of us are humming along: The great big city's a wondrous toy just made for a girl and boy.
Simply put, far too many of the people who have designed the wondrous parts of the internet — thinking up cool new products to make our lives easier, distributing them across the globe and making fortunes doing so — have never felt unsafe a day in their lives.
The wondrous third season of Pamela Adlon's meditation on womanhood at middle age saw the show's storytelling grow more serialized, with fully developed arcs involving Samantha Fox (Adlon) and all three of her daughters, as well as most of the other important people in their lives.
" JOHN E. COLBERT ARROYO SECO, N.M. ♦ To the Editor: The brilliant writing of Isabel Wilkerson, epitomized in her landmark book, "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration," is again on display in her wondrous review of Michelle Obama's memoir, "Becoming.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When the summer months drive city dwellers toward beaches, lakes, and mountains, multiplexes attempt to keep them indoors by providing a different kind of escape: transporting viewers to distant worlds populated by wondrous creatures in Hollywood's loudest, most expensive blockbusters.
Manisha Jha's intricate and wondrous "Tree of Life" paintings, Jangarh Singh Shyam's strange and fantastic beasts, Rani Jha's and Swarna Chitrakar's bold treatment of political issues and current events, and Ram Singh Urveti's mysterious depictions of Gods and myths, are just some of the remarkable works from this show.
Sean Baker, the innovative director of 2015's indie breakout Tangerine, is back with The Florida Project, where he's cast Willem Dafoe opposite two rookie unknowns for a story that toggles between a 6-year old's adventurous, wondrous summer and the adults around her struggling with hard times.
I talk about this not to downplay the part capitalism and settler colonialism, specifically, have wreaked havoc on ecosystems, disrupted necessary balances, and killed off glorious, wondrous creatures with all the consideration of swatting a fly, but as a way to hold on to a bit of hope.
A Coconut Water Brand Is Offering Free Piss on Twitter Because This Is the FutureWhen they looked to the future, some in the 20th century imagined wondrous technological…Read more ReadIt's possible no one would have ever noticed if North Face hadn't released a video boasting about its plot.
Strange and wondrous pronunciation pervades Death in Ice Valley, a BBC podcast about a mysterious woman whose body was found burned, in 1970, in a desolate valley in Norway's Seven Mountains, with a handful of phenobarbital and a half-bottle of St. Hallvard, an 80-proof herbal liqueur.
Your palms sweat, and when you hear that terminal count kick in – 10, 9, 8, 7... – it really hits home that this is a wondrous feat of engineering that you're fervently hoping will go right, but could also be moments away from turning into a ball of flame.
The novel sends up the narrative optimism of the great novels of multiculturalism of the 1990s and 2000s: Books like Monica Ali's Brick Lane, Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Small Island by Andrea Levy, Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (Reuters) - South Koreans An Byeong-hun and Im Sung-jae posted their best scores on the PGA Tour to share the first-round lead at the Wyndham Championship on Thursday as Jordan Spieth displayed a wondrous putting touch to match his lowest score of the season.
That was too bad, as things turned out, since the gimmick barely registered amid the welter of face-painted extras and athletes from all nations who, almost as soon as they took the field, forgot all about citizenship and blended into an enormous scrum of wondrous physical specimens.
The joke is that many of them are played by actors who, given half a chance, can be as wondrous to behold as any monster; what slays the joke is that the movie, directed by Michael Dougherty, gives them, at best, a quarter of a chance, or a sixteenth.
The happy creatures demonstrate counting, a few apropos opposites like "over" and "under," a dash of wondrous nighttime magic in the form of a shower of stars, and then — as always, parents will bless his name — the joy of settling down serenely to sleep after a full day.
The latest collection, titled "Emergence" and looking at what Mr. Jeffrey called "embracing of the genderless and misunderstood through a sensitive, celestial study of bodies," took an assured designer's hand to unfiltered and unexpected places, leaving the audience with a sense of the wondrous possibility of the new.
But the image that still remains indelible from my very first reading of the story is the wondrous refrigerator in the Patimkins' basement, filled with fruits on which Neil and Brenda gorge before making love on the couch — cherries and nectarines and greengage plums, ripe, luscious, and ultimately sickening.
Life sucks, the world is on fire, America is a dystopian hellscape, and about 10,000 people we used to think were great turned out to be deeply problematic—but in the face of all this misery, there are a few pure, wondrous things left that help us cope.
There is a wondrous genre of Thai dishes that, because of the limits of English, we classify as salads — including this happy exercise in deconstruction, in which crispy deep-fried rice balls are crumbled with scraps of thrillingly sour fermented sausage and herbs upon herbs to chase the salt.
Leveling the playing field for women in tech is vital for emerging industries When it comes to gaming, calling Saudi Arabia a veritable ocean of whales is no exaggerated stereotype — and it's time to identify who, exactly, those mysterious and wondrous big spenders are who are devouring all those games.
With Murray having failed to win a set off Wawrinka in any of their previous three battles dating back to 2013, many expected the Swiss third seed to knife Murray's French Open dreams with his wondrous backhands — just as he had done to Djokovic in the final 12 months ago.
D'Ambrosio adorns these stories with sidebars that range from painful (Serpico's uneasy reunion with Arthur Cesare, one of the officers present at that fateful bust) to wondrous (Serpico's discussion of the original plans for Lumet's movie, which was to be directed by John Avildsen and to star Serpico as himself).
It is made of some wondrous substance that does not belong to any of the planet's three known realms — the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom or the mineral kingdom — and yet it receives all its nourishment from them, for fiction is part of mankind, and mankind is part of this world.
In early April, he announced the album's release date—a rarity in this era of the surprise drop, when artists seem intent on ambushing their fans—and teased us with "One Dance," a wondrous, global dance party of a single, featuring the British singer Kyla and the Nigerian singer Wizkid.
Also of particular note are Rachel Frank's wondrous display that successfully walks the line between colonial nostalgia and commercial exoticism, and the eye-catching The Pursuit of "It" show curated by Nicole Grammatico and Christina Papanicolaou, which features work by artists Robin F. Williams, Signe Pierce, Hein Koh, and Hiba Schahbaz.
FRANZ JOSEF GLACIER, New Zealand — New Zealand is renowned for its wondrous scenery, and among the country's top tourist attractions are two glaciers that are both stunning and unusual because they snake down from the mountains to a temperate rain forest, making them easy for people to walk up to and view.
Exorbitant drug prices owe less to wondrous innovation than interference with normally functioning markets: pharmaceutical companies engage in anti-competitive behaviour, such as paying off generic-drug manufacturers to delay production after patents expire, refusing to grant enough sample drugs to generic producers, and creating "patent thickets" that successfully ward off competitors.
Hunks of meat falling from above, waterfalls that run red as blood, and so-called "chemtrails" criss-crossing the sky are just a few of the wondrous mysteries solved by science that feature in the second season of Science Solved It, hosted by Motherboard's Kaleigh Rogers and produced by VICE's Sophie Kazis.
With every bite, as the thin bones and layers of fat, meat, skin, and organs compact in on themselves, there are sublime dribbles of varied and wondrous ancient flavors: figs, Armagnac, dark flesh slightly infused with the salty taste of my own blood as my mouth is pricked by the sharp bones.
It is a well-made film and a profoundly sad story about how two young African-American men, one a power hitter and the other a pitcher, arrived in New York a season apart, bringing wondrous talents that were briefly realized before their careers were derailed by drug suspensions, arrests and jail time.
" The piece — full of wondrous pride even as it conjures a sense of depressing limitation — consists of three abnormally tall microphones and its title recalls the Holy Trinity of late-20th-century black American entertainment icons as set out by the rapper The Notorious B.I.G.: "I excel like Mike, anyone: Tyson, Jordan, Jackson.
This unabashed display of human bodies in wimmelbooks is wondrous: "Een huis vol," by Doro Göbel and Peter Knorr, depicts, among other things, a pregnant woman getting checked by a midwife, a kid sitting on a toilet and another soaping up in the shower, but those are morsels of the book's charm.
The brainchild of the choreographer Lar Lubovitch, this series, which features a reconfigured stage that allows the audience to view the pieces from four sides, draws to an end with performances by the wondrous Beth Gill (her "Pitkin Grove" continues through Sunday) and the return of Donna Uchizono Company (Wednesday to Oct. 230).
In my early teens I was overwhelmed by Stravinsky's 1910 ballet score "The Firebird" — in the recording conducted by Stravinsky — even before I knew what was going on in the fairy-tale story, about a wondrous firebird that helps a prince rescue the princess he loves from the realm of an evil sorcerer.
I am sure I am not alone in recalling Borges' wondrous story, "Of Exactitude in Science" (1946), which contains this passage: In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such Perfection that the Map of a Single province covered the space of an entire City, and the Map of the Empire itself an entire Province.
Its blaze is recorded in the Bayeux Tapestry, in a register above a small group of men who point at the fiery ball — not as a remembrance of a wondrous natural phenomenon, but rather to commemorate what was seen as a portent of things to come, as a result of Harold breaking his oath.
After his death, the book store tweeted: Consider one of the musician's many biographies, or you could try one of his favorite books, like "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, "The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz, or one of the 98 others that were posted on his website in October 2013.
Sometimes the new phenomenon of Pokémon Go–related trespassing is a bit wondrous, as seen in Massachusetts resident Boon Sheridan's discovery that his home is a Pokémon gym, or some players' trolling of the notoriously homophobic Westboro Baptist Church by turning the group's Kansas compound into a gym and starting a Jigglypuff-based ideological war.
In addition to "Modest Beauty: Dress, Fashions and Faith," the section with the tunic and horse cape, "Wondrous Worlds" explores the Quran and calligraphy and book arts; hospitality and the domestic arts through objects like ceramics and musical instruments; architecture and its offspring, such as tiles; and the intercontinental trade nurtured by the hajj pilgrimage.
While we promised we wouldn't share too much about the LP's inner awesomeness, we can tell you that like many releases associated with the label—check out Max Graef's 2014 album Rivers of The Red Planet for reference—it's a wondrous voyage through the interconnected realms of soul, hip-hop, and smooth jazzy house.
This applies particularly to the Burgenland, in the east of Austria hard on the border of Hungary and south of Lake Neusiedl, a vast, shallow body of water that produces the humidity necessary for the formation of botrytis cinerea, the noble rot, which infuses the sweet wines produced east of the lake with wondrous lusciousness.
In his wondrous take on "The Wizard of Oz," you get simultaneous glimpses of gloomy Kansas and the Emerald City, one in front of the other; in a commission based on Akira Kurosawa's "Ran," there's an exploding, upside-down castle, an eerie ghost, and samurai and horses falling out of a blood-red sky.
By the light of the full moon in May, as oblivious to humans as most humans are to them, legions of wondrous, glossy-brown horseshoe crabs will be emerging from the sea within sight of New York skyscrapers and on a few special sandy beaches from Maine to Yucatán, repeating their ancient rhythms of regeneration.
The fukú of Junot Díaz's novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" — a curse brought to the New World by Columbus — gave new dimension to the deep interconnectedness of American histories, weaving a rich tangle of science fiction, Caribbean politics and family lore around the tragicomic life of a Dominican nerd in New Jersey.
In this episode, we talk to four experts in the field, Gardiner Museum educator and curator Siobhan Boyd, Metropolitan Museum curator James Doyle, cultural historian Margaret Visser, and Popti storyteller Maria Monteja to peel back the layers of history in this wondrous artifact from ancient times to learn about Maya traditions and culture through the lens of today.
The mission of the aquarium — which underwent a major expansion in 2005 — is to connect the movement of water from the mountains to the sea with the beings that both live in or are dependent on the world's water system; it's a well-told conservation story that includes lemurs, birds, otters, penguins and a wondrous Butterfly Room.
Messi remains, of course, as wondrous as ever, but he has found himself let down, increasingly, at an institutional level: directionless, almost random recruitment of players; uninspired coaching appointments, and an aging squad, at times distracted and often over-empowered; a board that has no clear vision of the club's direction, at least on the field.
When I look up into space, I contemplate all the wondrous things we're still learning about it: how more and more planets beyond our solar system are discovered every year, how black holes crashing into one another literally ripple space and time, and how somewhere, the element gold is being forged in the furnace of colliding neutron stars.
Borrowing engineering acumen from its (historically great, currently weak) Formula One team, the British company has produced some truly wondrous road cars, starting with the three-seater F1 in the nineties—the world's fastest production car for a decade—up to the all-new, million-dollar Senna, with a 789-horsepower engine in a vehicle that weighs just 2,461 pounds.
The books also featured a hundred and twenty-eight woodcut illustrations, all by one artist from the Cranach workshop, known to us only as Master MS. There they were, all those wondrous things—the Garden of Eden, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob wrestling with the angel—which modern people are used to seeing images of and which Luther's contemporaries were not.
They are secure in the knowledge that their island is wildly beautiful — imagine alpine mountains rising from Mediterranean shores — so they assume that whichever pink granite inlet, mountaintop lake or boulder-strewn valley you do see, even if it's not the best known, will be among the most wondrous sights of what, you've now realized, is your flat and boxed-in life.
Finally, and by deliberate sartorial contrast, there is Rush Loving Jr.'s THE WELL-DRESSED HOBO: The Many Wondrous Adventures of a Man Who Loves Trains (Indiana University, $35), which has all too many pictures of the boring-­looking men in business suits who ran, for good or for ill, some of the various railroads with which this former Fortune editor is acquainted.
One way of looking at the departures of Steve Bannon and Seb Gorka, The Mooch's brief and wondrous reign as communications director, and the ascension of John Kelly was that they cumulatively represented the triumph of the more conventional voices in Trump's inner circle—that the globalists had ultimately prevailed, even if they had paid a dear price in the process.
The Oasis, created by an eccentric billionaire, is a wondrous place where you can be anything — another gender, another species — and the 1980s-loving Wade and his crush, Samantha Cook (played by Olivia Cooke, from "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl"), race to solve a three-part treasure hunt before an evil corporation, in both worlds, gets there first.
We're romantics, and the world is wondrous when you believe that you belong to some brave and special tribe and have experienced enlightenment — about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, about the existence of extraterrestrials, about the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, about vaccines — that all the less perceptive, more gullible conformists out there simply can't comprehend.
Over the past several years this has become an increasingly common scene in parts of the borough: the wondrous gazes of out-of-towners as they listen to anecdotes about the area's literary and architectural past, turning to shock as they learn of the gargantuan sums people are willing to pay to live, in such close quarters, among the ghosts.
The event combined a super moon (when the moon is at its closest point to Earth), a blue moon (the second full moon of the month), and a blood moon (a total lunar eclipse) for a wondrous astronomical event visible to over half the globe, especially for those on the U.S. West Coast and in Australia, Northern Russia, Eastern Asia, and the Middle East.
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The wondrous thing about being human — the beauty and banality of it — is that we all tend to dwell in the same handful of elemental struggles, joys and sorrows, which is why a book one person writes may help another process her own life a century later, and why a "blog" by a solitary stranger may speak to many other solitary dwellers across time and space.
They are Terence Rattigan's "The Deep Blue Sea" at the National Theater, in which the wondrous Helen McCrory adds yet another memorable portrait to her gallery of devastatingly devastated women; a three-play, single-day, engrossing marathon of early Chekhov works (also at the National); an especially bruising "Midsummer Night's Dream" at Shakespeare's Globe; and Simon Stone's merciless and mesmerizing updating of Federico García Lorca's "Yerma," starring a fabulous Billie Piper.
Along with premieres by the company member Jamar Roberts (to music by John Coltrane) and the Spanish choreographer Gustavo Ramírez Sansano (to Beethoven), there are three new productions: Twyla Tharp's wondrous "The Golden Section," featuring music by David Byrne; Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's powerful look at homelessness, "Shelter"; and Talley Beatty's turbulent "Stack-Up," set to recorded pieces by Earth, Wind and Fire, Grover Washington Jr. and others.

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