To add something new to this wonderful year ;

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, calling it " an amazingly entertaining thriller " and " one of the best films so far this year ", with a " wonderful " ending.

His first was The Wonderful Year, a journalistic account of the death of Elizabeth, accession of James I, and the 1603 plague, that combined a wide variety of literary genres in an attempt to convey the extraordinary events of that year (' wonderful ' meaning astonishing, not excellent ).

* Annus mirabilis, a Latin phrase meaning " wonderful year " or " year of wonders " ( or " year of miracles ")

... Ben told me the first year that he was here, and this is a quote, ' It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all of its people.

The First Deemster administers the oath to the kneeling coroners: " By that book and by the holy contents thereof and by the wonderful works that God hath miraculously wrought in heaven above and in the earth beneath in six days and seven nights, you shall, without respect of favour or friendship, love or gain, consanguinity or affinity, envy or malice, well and truly execute the office of coroner for each sheading to which you have been appointed for the ensuing year.

Taut, imaginative and complex, this is one of the best American films of the year and a wonderful antidote to the numbing sameness of movies.

After leaving the show, Muldaur said in an article in The Palm Beach Post: " A lot of people ask me why I did Star Trek for a year and I said ' because it sounded wonderful and creative, fun and children's theater.

As a result, the Vishukkani is prepared with a lot of care to make it the most positive sight so as to bring alive a wonderful, propitious year ahead.

Annus mirabilis is a Latin phrase meaning " wonderful year " or " year of wonders " ( or " year of miracles ").

The phrase " annus mirabilis " translates as " wonderful year " or " year of miracles ".

Into his short life he crowded an overflowing measure of activity which found its climax in his last wonderful year, a year during which he rowed in the winning Oxford boat, explored Spitsbergen, fell in love with ski-ing, and – perhaps – conquered Everest.

He spent the following year and a half at the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari, where he engaged in writing his three great books, his dictations keeping three scribes busy night and day ; there the young monk, Lucas ( afterwards Archbishop of Cosenza ), who acted as his secretary, was amazed to see so famous and eloquent a man wearing such rags, and the wonderful devotion with which he preached and said Mass.

At the heart of the village of Coupeau, is a truly wonderful animal park called " Merlet ", which draws many visitors each year.

" It is simply the most wonderful part of the year.

These events and more are enjoyed by over 100, 000 people every year and during the 4 days – over 200 volunteers come together to make this a truly wonderful celebration of the City's birthday.

The FIVB moved its headquarters to Lausanne, Switzerland, the same year, bringing it closer to the International Olympic Committee and providing a wonderful base to promote the sport in worldwide competitions held in the five continents ( Asia, Africa, Europe, South America and NORCECA ).

In the same year, Motley Fool writer Ann Coleman admitted that the Foolish Four method " turned out to be not nearly as wonderful a strategy as we thought.

Segal's banjo skills were referenced in The Simpsons episode, A Fish Called Selma, while on a date with Troy McClure Selma says " I once went on a date with a famous actor and had a wonderful time " to which Troy replies " Really ... who was it, George Segal?

The text of the Lotus Sutra refers to the Four Noble Truths as the first teaching of the Buddha, but introduces, in the third chapter titled Similes and Parables, what it calls " the most wonderful and unsurpassed great Dharma ":

" They now inform him that " at a certain stage of intoxication, no human power could keep from setting out, with impressive unction, to tell about a wonderful adventure which he had once had with his grandfather's old ram — and the mention of the ram in the first sentence was as far as any man had heard him get, concerning it.

As writer Mark Twain said, " It took a brave man before the Civil War to confess he had read the Age of Reason ... I read it first when I was a cub pilot, read it with fear and hesitation, but marveling at its fearlessness and wonderful power.

" Prince Galitzine then explained that he was in the frontiers of Siberia when he had first heard of Morphy's " wonderful deeds.

The bold player who was lucky and adventurous, and could push on his couch with a considerable stake to sept-et-le-va, quinze-et-le-va, trente-et-le-va, etc., must in a wonderful manner have multiplied his couch, or first stake ; but this was seldom done ; and the loss of the players, by the very nature of the game, invariably exceeded that of the bank ; in fact, this game was altogether in favour of the bank ; and yet it is evident that, in spite of this obvious conviction, the game must have been one of the most tempting and fascinating that was ever invented.

The now most common meaning of weird, " odd, strange ", is first attested in 1815, originally with a connotation of the supernatural or portentuous ( especially in the collocation weird and wonderful ), but by the early 20th century increasingly applied to everyday situations.

The first stone bridge at Durham was completed by his instruction in 1120, the so-called Framwellgate Bridge, a bridge described as " of wonderful workmanship.

Alexander Muir, in the Daily Mirror, considered that the first two volumes of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, " would make wonderful Christmas presents for everybody's young ones ", declaring that they were " thrilling cliff-hanger adventures ".

It was the first church dome ever raised in England: " a form of church building ," John Evelyn recorded in his diary, " not as yet known in England, but of wonderful grace.

" He argued that it was first necessary to " prepare " mankind for a " wonderful new world ".

He has been here these two years, and will not tell who he is, or whence, but professes wonderful things, the first that he does not go by his right name ; the second that he never had any dealings with any woman-nay, nor with any wikt: succedaneum | succedaneum ( this was censored by Walpole's editors until 1954 ) He sings, plays on the violin wonderfully, composes, is mad, and not very sensible.

Shortly after becoming a professional, he was offered the job of first jockey to Vivian Smith, Lord Bicester, a wonderful position.

I glory in our wonderful west and I hope to leave behind me some of the relics of its first primitive greatness.

I think it was the first summer I was at Harvard as a student, and I discovered a wonderful bookstore there where I could get modern poetry – which I ’ d never been able to lay my hands on very much until then – and they had the original edition of The Darkening Ecliptic with the Sidney Nolan cover.

In the second last entry, she concluded, however, that all pain are gone and that it was such a relief: " How wonderful all these things are ; I have no regret for my very first choice!

On his wonderful new album, Beatin ' the Heat ( Surfdog ), his first in years — Hicks gets some help from Elvis Costello, Rickie Lee Jones, Bette Midler, Tom Waits along with recent swing revivalist and onetime Stray Cats guitarist Brian Setzer.

His music teacher chose him to sing a solo of " S ' wonderful " at the school's Cabaret Night, where he sang alone on stage for the first time.

But I adored the thread of pearls provided by Argentina's castanets, when she would come as my lessons with him were fnishing to rehearse the wonderful dances of her first recitals at number 27, rue Henri-Heine.

It has been reported that the euphoria caused by propofol is unlike that caused by other sedation agents, " I even remember my first experience using propofol: a young woman who was emerging from a MAC anesthesia looked at me as though I were a masked Brad Pitt and told me that she felt simply wonderful.

Hoddle was determined to establish them as a top playing side, and during his first season he had some wonderful opportunities to succeed.

The green trees, when I saw them first, transported and ravished me, their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things.

From these acquaintances Handel learned the essential characteristics of Italian music, in particular ( according to Dean and Knapp ) " fluency in the treatment of Italian verse, accurate declamation and flexible harmonic rhythm in recitative, ... drawing the necessary distinction between vocal and instrumental material and, above all, the release of wonderful melodic gift ".

The design of the building is said to be based on a verse of the Tang Dynasty poem Pipa Song by Bai Juyi about the wonderful sprinkling sound of a pipa instrument, like pearls, big and small falling on a jade plate ( 大珠小珠落玉盘 / 大珠小珠落玉盤 / dà zhū xiǎo zhū luò yù pán ).

Featured in the first verse of the original ( Irving Berlin's ) lyrics of Puttin ' on the Ritz, albeit in an off-putting and mocking fashion, referencing the then-popular fad of flashily-dressed but poor black Harlemites parading up and down Lenox Avenue, " Spending ev ' ry dime / For a wonderful time ".

The beautiful verse, the wonderful character drawing of Shakespeare furnish solutions of perplexing problems, but Ibsen is so elusive.