It is now turning out a marvelous array of mostly seafood dishes, with Thai and Southwestern touches, at prices that, if not exactly at sea level, don't wander too far up the mizzenmast.

Never had he seen such magnificent bravetrees-except they weren't exactly brave-trees-or such a marvelous array of secondary plants.

"The universe was brought into being in a less than fully formed state," Augustine wrote, "but was gifted with the capacity to transform itself from unformed matter into a truly marvelous array of structures and life forms."

Soon, he felt his mind driving at speed, thoughts pouring through in marvelous array.

New York City, richly blessed on so many cultural fronts, already has at least two of these marvelous arrays in its great museums.

A marvelous array of tap styles was on view.

The hand of a well-trained chef was apparent everywhere: in a comforting lightly curried parsnip and apple soup or a terrine of guinea fowl, venison, duck and chicken, a marvelous array of different textures.

The ways that people think and work and suffer and fall in love and make enemies and sometimes make revolutions is the stuff of novels, and Arabic novels have been increasingly available in English translation, offering a marvelous array of answers to questions we did.

Along the way "The Main Enemy" reveals a marvelous array of the tricks each side used to throw the other off balance.

We emerged to the inner orchard, with its marvelous array of fruits and nuts.