Word: marvell
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...blue water came to light [and] now the glossy pewter utensils reflect the most subtle gradations of color in the robes of the apostles, the roseate or deep red brilliance of the wines shines transparently in the glasses. [All this] must have struck Leonardo's contemporaries as a marvel of naturalism. Even now, after a century of Impressionism, he still seems modern and revolutionary...
...persistent loudspeaker proclaiming the solidarity and monolithic will of the leadership. But if the solidarity was there, it need not be proclaimed so often; it would not need secret police and work camps to enforce it. When the history of these times comes to be written, the marvel may be that the free nations-who had the strength to exhibit their weaknesses-should have been so fully taken in by the myth of the monolith...
Rent Control. In York, Pa., Landlord Pietro Pennine and his wife Josephine wound up in jail after Tenant Randal Marvel complained they had collected his $11 rent by covering him with a pistol, then taking the money from his wallet...
...biggest part of the change is the revolution in construction thinking; today, there is almost no project too big to tackle, no reasonable limit to reshaping the earth to make it more productive. Only 70 years ago, a project such as Brooklyn Bridge was considered a construction marvel. Today, Harry Morrison and the other builders consider far greater marvels just routine jobs...
...uncertainty is understandable in a picture cuffed off as casually as Beat the Devil was. The marvel is that there is not more uncertainty. And yet, actually, the bluffing and the weasels and the downright mistakes are what give this picture, as they give a jam session, its personal style. What one comes to hear is not the clinkers but those crazy riffs, of which Beat the Devil has some fine ones...