marvel
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As Banderas plays him, he’s a bearish marvel of a man with the kind of earthy soul that would have had Ernest Hemingway chugging salty dogs on his barstool all night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The unshowy dedication to craft is a marvel, and so is much else in this crystalline little film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The Ming dynasty floating-crab cup is a marvel to behold.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Completed in 1902, the building was an architectural marvel with a pioneering steel-frame construction making it one of the city's first skyscrapers.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
As soon as Siobhan was placed in the Paragon of Sound with a kindred marvel, Ella stood and clapped for her.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
She marvels that “this lifeguarding manual was, absurdly, the first book I had found that offered practical advice pertinent to my circumstance.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
After the delays and cost increases, these projects have not exactly delivered reliable marvels.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Ken Olin, the “thirtysomething” star-turned-director who helmed many a baby-filled episode of Fogelman’s earlier series, “This Is Us,” marvels at how Woodley delivers devastating emotions beyond anything he thought he captured on set.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Emparanza marvels at the speed of such AI-driven fermentation design.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
“No bowed head or rounded shoulders,” Father marvels.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
When Molly Taylor started taking Mounjaro in the fall of 2024, she marveled at the speed of results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
While the “Heartstopper” team expected the series to resonate with younger audiences, they have been particularly moved by the reactions of older queer viewers, who have marveled at the strides in LGBTQ+ representation onscreen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
As I walked through downtown, I marveled at how the overwhelmingly Gen Z throngs expressed their mexicanidad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
I marveled at how much courage it must take to turn your real life into art, just for the chance that one person might see it and be impacted by it.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Ivan marveled over it and whispered, “It’s beautiful.”
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
And in May 2025 Trump sounded more than a little envious of his Arab hosts as he praised the marble of Qatar's royal palace as "perfecto" and marvelled at Saudi Arabia's architecture.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
"I can make out all the letters of the alphabet, even the smallest ones," he marvelled, pointing to his phone screen.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Maher, a crochety liberal-leaning comic who has grown more crochety and less liberal as societal norms have passed him by, marvelled at the fact that he could make the commander-in-chief laugh.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2025
While physicists around the world marvelled at that breakthrough, it had taken the scientists at NIF much longer than expected.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
Proud and tall he seemed, though the hair that flowed beneath his high helm was like snow; and many marvelled at him and took heart to see him unbent and unafraid.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
We would be sipping ice-cold spritzes at cafés overlooking the Mediterranean, frolicking down cobblestone streets lined with charming boutiques, and marveling at the frescoes and marble sculptures adorning grand cathedrals.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The three-story, 163,000-square-foot football-only facility opened Wednesday night, with Riley reflecting back on that napkin and marveling at how far the program had come since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Beyond marveling over these kingdoms, we can learn a lot more from them than we might expect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
In fact, your guide probably has had no direct knowledge of—or even personal interest in—sunbathing on the Gulf Coast, rock climbing in Moab, or marveling at the architecture of Milan.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2026
She shuffled up to its base, again marveling at its construction.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Never mind the gap, onlookers were marvelling at a sheer chasm in class between the two teams.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Passengers tend to spend the first few minutes of the ride "marvelling, videoing the steering wheel moving on its own, taking selfies", Fischer said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Australian tourist Olivia Martell-Groves went all in for the seasonal experience, and donned a flower-printed kimono while marvelling at the flowers.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
His own style, which is to say his mind, was compulsively metaphorical, gorgeously maximal, enough so to make him worry about “an implicit marvelling at myself as expressor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
But she'd found her rhythm and had learned there were a lot of rules to marvelling.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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