Marvellous in example sentence
Since I knew it was about a British heroine parachuted into Vichy France, I was expecting something along the line of the marvellous "Odette" of the 1950s, Odette being a real-life heroine who endured much hardship while aiding the French resistance.
More example sentences with word marvellous
One should, of course, resist the temptation to snicker when Laurence Harvey's Christopher Isherwood, (it keeps the original author's real name; God Knows what Isherwood thought of it), describes himself as 'a confirmed bachelor' and while Harvey is an utterly inadequate 'hero', (he's virtually asexual), and Shelly Winters woefully miscast as Fraulien Landauer, (the part Marisa Berenson played in "Cabaret"), Julie Harris is a perfectly marvellous Sally, (it's a lovely piece of comic acting), and Anton Diffring is first-rate as Fritz, the German-Jew in love with Shelly's character. 
