Word: wondrously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...size van hidden under the hood of a minivan--arrived when our son turned six. It turned me into a soccer dad, ferrying him and countless of his friends to school and Little League and all the other appointed rounds of the busy childhood of suburbia (for me, a wondrous place filled with not the wail of ER sirens but the music of kids' bicycle horns...
...with this brief review of my wondrous first-year experience complete, I follow up with a couple of epilogues. The Girl? The One I was destined to be making waffles for at age 73? Well, the following summer, I met another girl, and then another one in the fall, and then another one the following fall. I've figured out by now that while maybe the One is out there somewhere, it will take some wear and tear before I figure out it really is Her. The grades? Well, some pre-meds might still laugh at them until this...
...though, The Phantom Menace is not about the performances or even really about the characters. It's about the whole scene, the blissful dream of the Star Wars experience. Lucas delivers on the visuals--he paints breathtaking vistas and wondrous creatures that prove he's got imagination to spare. It's a little too clean for my taste--part of the charm of the original series was that it made the long, long time ago seem just as grungily medieval as it was techno-cool--but it's still pretty darn impressive. Even while the film's big showpiece...
...players, I hope they all end up on some Major League roster and get grossly overpaid just like the rest of the world's great ballers. The Orioles are a wondrous example of how a team of millionaires can be oh so ordinary...
...Breakage is a challenge, but if you have the time, patience and perseverance, you will be rewarded with a gift of rare and wondrous poetry. Reading Maxwell's work aloud, the pure sounds of his words feel liquid and honeyed; even without delving into the meaning of the poems, the rhythm and meter are gently soothing. There is a sense that buried deep within lines is a truer, more complex essence. Maxwell's phrases are illusive and wispy, swirling around the fleeting, teasing meaning of his verse. Readers must persist to glean understanding from these intricate and enigmatic lines...