wondrousness

Every one in the neighbourhood went to see it for its wondrousness.

Maybe it was his ruminations about the wondrousness of built-ins.

But the utter wondrousness of it held her.

"Now, methinks, you understand better the wondrousness of the beings you are soon to meet," he said.

She opened the acetate folder she'd found it in and slipped one edge under the fragile wondrousness of the memoir.

Picard said incredulously, appearing far less enthused about the wondrousness of the situation than did Martinez.

Literature might set out to reflect the state, but it might also reflect the state of wondrousness - sometimes, at one and the same time.

More than a bit too much sentimentality, dappled nostalgia, and over-egged (faux) 'wondrousness' for my taste.

In fact her pinkie toes were longer than the toes next to them, a feat of digital wondrousness that already exceeded her great-great-grandmother's.

Still, that would hardly lessen the wondrousness of it, for those men must have been the long-vanished Tolteca, and those Master Artisans built magnificently.

(This is a holiday feature for me, too - shops that I can visit any time I like at home suddenly seem Aladdin's Caves of wondrousness.)

It is supposedly mitigated by the contention that Edward's desire to inherit Evenwood, the Tansor estate, stems from the wondrousness of Evenwood's library.

And place it with your own hands, into the hands of no one except the Most Sacred Body-Servant of His Wondrousness the God-King.'

He constructed his secret garden within an existing garden on one edge of the Pinewood complex, relying on Ron Whittle, a nursery owner, to provide plants in varying states of unruliness and wondrousness.

A tiresome blend of overacting and underwriting, "The Salon" moves from one predictable conversation to another - the lack of available black men, the wondrousness of Bill Clinton - without originality or comic rhythm.

The Economist compared it to the Spaceport Cantina in the original Star Wars and quotes anthropologist Gordon Mathews: "whereas the illegalities in Chungking Mansions are widely known, the wondrousness of the place is not."

Because if this was not the case, then human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing big stupid grins, similar to those worn by certain remote tribesmen who occasionally get raided by the authorities and have the contents of their plastic greenhouses very seriously inspected.

It means adoration, it means recognizing the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist; it means respect and an attitude of faith of a man who prostrates before God because he knows that everything comes from Him, and we feel speechless, dumbfounded, before the wondrousness, his goodness, and his mercy.