Word: wondrousness
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...success of “The Office,” the two had co-presented a radio show on Xfm London. Upon their return to the station in 2001, they were serendipitously assigned Pilkington as their producer. Little by little, Gervais and Merchant realized the volume of the wondrous iceberg of Karl’s weirdness, and his airtime steadily increased...
...your speech at Class Day in 1998, you said, “We are united in the wondrous power that we have as a collective body, the power to shape the world.” Do you think that you’re in the process of shaping the world right...
...this character work pays off. The movie never feels like watching someone else play a video game. Instead, “How to Train Your Dragon” takes a classic and clichéd Hollywood storyline and makes it memorable. This is most evident in the wondrous scenes in which Toothless, Hiccup, and Astrid soar through the sunset to the beautiful Celtic-inspired score of John Powell. Viewers may recall a very similar CGI experience in “Avatar,” in which flying beasts streak the sky in symbiotic unity with their mounted protagonists. The difference...
...Smith was also onto something that many free-market fans who pledge allegiance to him miss. The world is a complicated place. Markets don't exist free of societies and governments and regulators and customs and moral sentiments; they are entwined. Also, while markets often deliver wondrous results, an outcome is not by definition good simply because the market delivers it. Some other standards have to be engaged...
...Haitian catastrophe is not just normal but inevitable, that in fact a large part of the world is immiserated and stripped of resources to sustain certain lives of privilege,” said Diaz, a Dominican writer catapulted to fame by his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...