Sentences with phrase «sheer wonder»

An adventurer as well as a masterful prose stylist, in her far - ranging work, she's dedicated herself to capturing the variety and sheer wonder of life on this planet.

The midwife took charge, un-swaddling our one - hour - old baby with the seasoned skill of someone experienced with newborns (as my wife and I looked on with sheer wonder), opening the top of my hospital gown, and plopping him belly down on my chest, «pancake style.»

We kneel not as miserable worms but as those brought to their knees by sheer wonder at the gift.

Lonergan coaxes sheer wonders out of Paquin, who's never been anything like this ferociously brave before.

The reality is that people are suspicious of the MMR jab and people believe in astrology, not because they are mislead, but because it takes more than sheer wonder at the universe to create trust in political, social, and scientific institutions.

I trust the ones who carry a light in the darkness, who recognize the beauty and the sheer wonder of being alive.

(Occasionally I would catch the eye of the guard who checked on us at regular intervals through the large picture window into the chapel; his look of sheer wonder and simultaneous suspicion was noteworthy.)

I think of Warren's great reverence for the sheer wonder of American geography, nowhere more nobly displayed than in his great poem Audubon: A Vision, where he remembers:

Someone like Charles Babbage or Marie Curie would probably start weeping out of sheer wonder.

Check out the Hokies and Aggies getting a matchup, finally pairing two similar school cultures and also setting up the sheer wonder of Bud Foster trying to contain Johnny Manziel.

An elegant exploration of the human conquest of nature, The Dragon Behind the Glass revels in the sheer wonder of life's diversity and lays bare our deepest desire — to hold onto what is wild.

«Spend five minutes in the anthropology stacks of a major university library and gasp at the size of the world, the sheer wonder and diversity of its inhabitants!

I laugh out loud from the sheer wonder of it, spitting out a mouthful of seawater.

Words can not describe the sheer wonder of the falls!

The sheer wonders of the ocean life you will discover while diving will prove to be absolutely breathtaking and may just become a lifelong hobby.

Enjoy an an easy walk to the edge of this dry volcanic crater for views of sheer wonder.

Enjoy an easy walk to the edge of this dry volcanic crater for views of sheer wonder.

All these things just add to the sheer wonder and beauty of ChicaBrava helping to empower women.

Some messy spots make a fair tradeoff for the sheer wonder of flying through the air, of racing up the side of an immense building, of dashing around the underside of an aerial fortress.

If Nintendo can manage to capture the sheer wonder of Super Mario 64 and the innovation and creativity shown in Super Mario Galaxy, we could see the Wii U rise from obscurity and into the homes of many a gamer.

«There has to be something that deals with the sheer wonder and sensual sense of in fact traveling under the ground,» Weiner said of the work.

But for me, Wave Hill's young visitors, with the sheer wonder of the natural world that they demonstrate and the unabashed joy of life they experience, have been the greatest source of encouragement and inspiration.