marvelously

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A smile thrown in her direction during a parade honoring a visiting king and his princess daughter, a marvelously flighty Miriam Hopkins, almost causes an international incident after the gesture is misinterpreted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

“Ultimate Rose” from Salvatore Sciarrino’s 1981 opera, “Vanitas,” turns early music, along with vocal and cello production, marvelously inside out.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

But she’s marvelously funny here, making her Glinda at once deeply sincere and uproariously shallow.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

The resulting 1978 masterpiece—sublimely detailed and marvelously strange in its presentation of unseen ridges, troughs and endless plains—reflected the newly established theories of plate tectonics and continental drift.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

“But wacko or not, he’s awfully careful about keeping his secrets—which is why this has been so extremely, marvelously, wonderfully satisfying!”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart