11.  His work is well known in New York, where he has done wondrous things with the Brooklyn Philharmonic.

12.  In almost any city, that would be a wondrous thing.

13.  It was a wondrous thing while it lasted, an intellectually coherent attack on a central government that had overstepped the bounds of reason.

14.  It was a wondrous thing.

15.  Of course it has a soul -- a wondrous thing defined by the lethal smile, the cell phone and unisex breast reduction.

16.  Or the tarte Tatin is truly a wondrous thing.

17.  Still, that block of fused nails in the Brockton cabinet is a wondrous thing.

18.  Technology brings us wondrous things, not all of which are worth the effort it takes to deal with them.

19.  The entrepreneurial spirit is a wondrous thing.

20.  The Opera House is a wondrous thing to behold.