Sentences with phrase «instead of marveling»

Instead of marveling at the spectacle of a father trying to break a door so he can kill his kids, we marvel at this Academy Award - winning actor starring in a movie that's so far beneath him that it's amazing he didn't need a microscope just to read the script.

I just made pumpkin muffins this afternoon and i was admiring the graphics on the can instead of marveling at the beauty of a real pumpkin.

Quite possibly we would be ruing what could have been for Utah had Hayward only stayed instead of marveling at the Jazz's survival.

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of how you saw the face of God in the midst of fear or pain or joy and understood, really understood, Mary, not kneeling chastely beside a clean manger refraining from touching her babe, just moments after birth but instead, sore and exhilarated, weary and pressing a sleepy, wrinkled newborn to her breasts, treasuring every moment in her heart, marvelling not only at his very presence but at her own strength, how surrender and letting go is true work, tucking every sight and smell and smack of his lips into her own marrow.

So instead of plopping baby in a bouncy seat, try tying helium balloons to his ankles and watch him marvel at what his kicks can do!

«Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be the characteristics of this creature,» the Roman natural historian Claudius Aelianus wrote at the turn of the third century A.D. Today's divers marvel at the elaborate trails the eight - leggers follow along the seafloor, and at their irrepressible curiosity: Instead of fleeing, some octopuses examine divers the way Steve checked me out, tugging at their masks and air regulators.

I marveled at the pile of cotton rounds I went through — I was looking for a replacement for my makeup removal wipes — but instead of reducing my waste, I had increased it.

John Early and Meredith Hagner as Elliott and Portia are marvels in roles that should be written off as second comings of Will & Grace's Jack and Karen, but are imbued with so much pathos and nuance that you're no longer merely infatuated with them as second - banana comedic relief, but instead endeared to their worst tendencies.

Monáe has conceived an album for the marginalized, fueled by love that doesn't see difference as a flaw but instead marvels at the beauty of imperfection.

He mostly plays the marvel game instead of toy box so far.

When I wasn't picking apart the gigantic plot holes in the narrative, I was marveling at the overheated characters who have been crafted from cliché instead of the real world.

This film won't have you marvel about the glamorous lifestyle of the criminal world, instead you'll get an idea of how people pay for other people's fu * k - ups.

And I was most struck not by the effect this had on current seniors, but instead by the clusters of younger students who marveled at those admissions walls.

Instead of worrying about meager sales, I try to marvel at any sales.

Instead I stayed awake, wide - eyed staring into a sky full of shining dots (I never did see a shooting star) marveling at the vastness of our universe.

What you do get instead is a secluded, one - of - a-kind design marvel that ascends from a volcanic beach up the side of mountain in the lush tropical forests of St. Lucia, with jaw - dropping views of the Pitons, and many, many steps.

I could have marveled at how damn cool that sounded, or by how good the Orks looked (not in that way, you sick person), but instead I decided to fire a Vengeance Grenade down his throat and detonate it, thereby taking out several of his mates as well.

Yep, Easter is this weekend, making it a convenient time for MMOs to shower us in stuff to keep us indoors and playing instead of outside marveling in the end of winter.

I did marvel at the omission of the now revered Lee Krasner, and wondered, too, given that Bridget Riley had put her name to the field, why the vibrant op art movement is represented instead by Julian Stanczak.

Sometimes, it seems that instead of softening reality's edges, effulgent technologic marvels flaunt the bleakness of the human condition, underscoring the fact that all our wonderful inventions can't save us.

Instead of just taking the train out to Jefferson, jump on your laptop and marvel at Bushwick's street art from afar.

Instead of seeking to discover the mean or medium point, around which oscillate, in apparent independence of forces, all the phenomena of the external world, this system delights in multiplying exceptions to the law, and seeks, amid phenomena and in organic forms, for something beyond the marvel of a regular succession, and an internal and progressive development.

He mostly plays the marvel game instead of toy box so far.

I was hard pressed to think of the Assistant as a machine and instead found myself marveling at just how perfect Google seems to have gotten the default female voice, dictating correctly and stringing together phrases and words as if I were talking to a real person.