Word: marvell
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...victim of a dark-skinned stranger. But the cries for the death penalty, if not entirely silenced, have quieted. And instead of remaining amazed that a 23-year-old woman, to all outward appearances a loving mother, could harbor such profound unhappiness or anger, the people of Union now marvel that their quiet town could have been the scene of so many tawdry and desperate entanglements...
...call it Alice in Wonderland through a smoky looking glass. The play asks us, as Alice does, to marvel at the cornucopian richness of a child's imagination. In this case, however, the cornucopia is a devil's horn. She doesn't realize it, but Emma in her nocturnal wanderings has been rooting in a graveyard. Twelve Dreams is grim and gorgeous...
...says. "It holds the attention firmly, because there is always something new to learn, new discoveries to make." People who want a garden because the neighbor has one and hire someone else to install it may gradually be smitten by what's out there, want to know more, marvel at the changes each morning in the drape of a vine or the paths of the bees. Soon they will no longer have a garden; their gardens will have them...
...realize that it might seem insensitive and somehow immoral to question the University, especially on this sacred day. And, in general, we are well aware that committed administrators are just carrying out an important moral crusade. Shouldn't we stand back and marvel at their ethical commitment, as they extend control over every aspect of students' lives? When the administration is good, students who criticize them must be...bad...or perhaps, even worse, ignorant...
...space behind the framing window looks infinitely deep; two of the objects (the slice of melon and the yellow tip of the cucumber) stick out a little into our space. Everything is painted with self-abnegating care, warts and all, becoming a tiny sample of the world as a marvel: not through weirdness or preciousness (as in the curio cabinets of the great) but through its ordinary, even blemished, but always singular character...