Sentences with phrase «marvel by»

It's not a visual marvel by any means, but the art direction holds a certain charm to it.

Named an engineering marvel by National Geographic, you'll travel from sea level to almost 8,000 feet as you wind through rugged terrain and cross deep ravines on bridges — it is nothing short of spectacular!

At Bryce Canyon you can marvel by the uniqueness of the pillars of rock called the Hoodoos, but there are times when you feel like you may be in the depths of a canyon when debt is building and you don't see a resolution in site.

The sophisticated spiral construction is astonishingly complex and strong, an architectural marvel by itself and an evolutionary success!

Miss America was once marvelled by newcomers but nowadays only but a handful pay her visits!

Although these were still considered marvels by the late 1920s, they lost the kind of magical resonance that made it seem like, «Well, those things are possible, why can't we communicate with souls?»

Tarantino will be as always a bridesmaid but not a bride, and Ang Lee will just have to be marveled by his own achievement.

Excerpted from Dr. Mütter's Marvels by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.

For instance, I was really quite marveled by that one time my face was temporarily paralyzed after a spectacular Hawaiian...

Now here I sit, Switch to my left after having had another go on FUT (FIFA Ultimate Team) and I'm still marvelled by just how damn good it is!

I ended up watching it twice because I was just marveled by it, and my parents — of course — had to take me to the cinema and sit through it twice.

In just the first few hours, I was marveled by massive space whales off in the distance, glowing vegetation hidden in an underground cave, and ancient geography spouting out from a barren desert.

Smaller exhibitions, at the Gladstone Gallery, in recent years, have hinted as much, but here was a floor - filling accumulation of marvels by a woman who spun the humdrum — paraffin, cardboard, aluminum — into the sublime.

Not exact matches

The start of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks this week — negotiations foisted on Canada and Mexico by U.S. President Donald Trump — provides a moment to marvel at how trade has emerged, unexpectedly, as a defining issue for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's still - young Liberal government.

In a world fixated by disruption, the bank stands out as a marvel of continuity.

What can one say in the face of such a cabinet of marvels as «the startled cherry of his cigarette» (a Nazi about to be killed by a sniper), or a tool that «lathed the wrinkled lake,» or (my favorite) a line about stars on a river that lie scattered «like jacks tossed on linoleum»?

It is a wondrous book, a marvelous celebration of a man who never wearied of celebrating the wonder and marvel of a world illumined by Christian orthodoxy.

On the third question posed by the Chiang Mai meeting, regarding the Holy Spirit and religious plurality, the statement declares: «We have learned again to see the activity of the Spirit as beyond our definitions, descriptions, and limitations, as «the wind blows where it wills» (John 3:8) We have marveled at the «economy» of the Spirit in all the world, and are full of hope and expectancy.

For a long time he will look to the marvels of art to provide him with that exaltation which will give him access to the sphere — his own sphere — of the extra — personal and the suprasensible; and in the unknown Word of nature he will strive to hear the heartbeats of that higher reality which calls him by name.

For it is not merely that at that privileged point all the external springs of the world are co-ordinated and harmonized: there is the further, complementary marvel that the man who surrenders himself to the divine milieu feels his own inward powers directed and enlarged by it with a sureness which enables him effortlessly to avoid the all too numerous reefs on which mystical quests have so often foundered.

This modern scientific revolution — together with its practical consequences in the marvels of the machine age — has been a triumph of reason, probably the major one in all history measured by brilliance and by transforming power.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

The wonderful statistical methods of quantum mechanics are now widely believed to be able to do the greatest marvel — to draw entire universes out of nothing by the skillful pushing of a pencil or by the clever tinkering with the keyboards of supercomputers.

Life, the Universe, Everything... it's wonderful, I have nothing but respect for it, and I wouldn't insult this fantastic marvel of a universe by pretending a tooth fairy made it with magic.

The marvel of our Lord is that He uses the very people whom Jesus came to save by turning them into ambassadors of His Kingdom.

The Christian heroism (and perhaps it is rarely to be seen) is to venture wholly to be oneself, as an individual man, this definite individual man, alone before the face of God, alone in this tremendous exertion and this tremendous responsibility; but it is not Christian heroism to be humbugged by the pure idea of humanity or to play the game of marveling at world - history.

When Jesus hears the words spoken by the centurion's friends, He marveled and turned around.

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

He teaches (or reminds) us to marvel at the beauty of a tangerine peel by quoting M. F. K. Fisher, and then Gerard Manley Hopkins.

By the glorious Qur «an, (1) Nay, but they marvel that a warner of their own hath come unto them; and the disbelievers say: This is a strange thing: (2) When we are dead and have become dust (shall we be brought back again)?

Some degree of suffering and imperfection seems to have accompanied the very process by which all the marvels and beauties of the natural order came successively into existence.

A childlike adult, however, aware of no special need to see the world as a Harvard philosopher does, could not help being struck by the marvel that no one denies: that things marvelously are and then are not.

For my part I can in a way understand Abraham, but at the same time I apprehend that I have not the courage to speak, and still less to act as he did — but by this I do not by any means intend to say that what he did was insignificant, for on the contrary it is the one only marvel.

Thousands of years have run their course since those days, but thou hast need of no tardy lover to snatch the memorial of thee from the power of oblivion, for every language calls thee to remembrance — and yet thou dost reward thy lover more gloriously than does any other; hereafter thou dost make him blessed in thy bosom; here thou dost enthral his eyes and his heart by the marvel of thy deed.

The technical marvels of the modern age are dependent upon scientific knowledge, which has been gained by educated people.

The Bible is a «symposium» of works by a number of persons, composed of many writings, written over a period of hundreds of years, some only preserved in fragments, by unknown authors, written on animal skins (for they had no paper as we know it), with no printing presses to preserve the writing... It's a marvel we have the Bible at all.

(Example: Benjamin Constant was often marveled at as an extraordinary instance of superior intelligence with inferior character, He writes [Journal, Paris, 1895, p. 56]-RRB-, «I am tossed and dragged about by my miserable weakness.

The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.

Honestly, if this was such a medical miracle, such a marvel I'm postive I would have heard about it by now.

And, in the next place, since evil is specially characterized by its diffusion, and attains its greatest height when it simulates the appearance of the good, for that reason are signs, and marvels, and lying miracles found to accompany evil, through the cooperation of its father the devil.

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

The marvel is that we imperfect and deeply flawed human beings can be called by a God who alone is holy.

I marveled at a chart that showed a diagram of the tree of life, where relationships between different mammalian species were figured out solely by comparison of their DNA sequences, providing powerful support for Darwin's idea of descent from a common ancestor with natural selection operating on randomly occurring variations.

The mystery and marvel of the gospel is driven by God's furious, extravagant love for us, unwilling to conceive eternity without us at home with him.

Trust me, your guests will marvel at their size and follow by saying, «Mmm, these are great!»

My brothers wonder that I'm not still 8; my parents marvel at the years that have flown by; my peers are suspicious that I haven't been 23 this entire time... I don't know which age I perceive myself to be.

Super Natural Every Day is on by bedside table and I keep looking through it and marvelling even if I'm too lazy to cook these days...

In my travels through France, I've marveled at their seemingly impromptu meals by the side of a road complete with cloth napkins, china dishes, and of course, crystal glasses and wine.

While Crabtree was smothered by cameras and reporters in the Raiders locker room, I spoke alone to Tavecchio, as we marveled at the spectacle across the room and the quiet among us.

By the time he was 15, he was taking the shot with him and marveling at the big - city lights (big - city lights?)