It wasn't widespread animosity; it was small but it was highly vocal, and it was not fact-based, which is what I found astonishing.
"What I found astonishing," Epstein says, "was, first, that my mother had never mentioned this prime fact of her life to him, her best friend, through their long marriage, and, second, that he never told her that the fact was known to him".
What I found astonishing in all of this is that American public opinion was barely mentioned.
What I find astonishing, having worked in theatre now on some sort of level for about 15 years, is that for 10 of those 15 years, theatre was necessarily a marginal, conservative art form.
"It is hatred with a perfidy that I find astonishing," particularly, he said, when one contrasts the broad consensus on topics like gay marriage, or an expansion of kindergartens to allow German mothers to work, with the recent, sometimes violent, protests against gay marriage in neighboring France.
"What I find astonishing is that this good news story - that we are all living for longer - is becoming a bad news story that we are all going to be poorer," says Ros Altmann, director general of Saga.
In a passage that I find astonishing, Hernandez found that Cox could not be considered a "media defendant," and that therefore Obsidian and Padrick would not have to prove she acted negligently.
For the moment, I may find astonishing employees on Craigslist, and a cat may look at a queen.
I found that astonishing.
"Arresting somebody for spreading rumours on the internet, that doesn't surprise me much at all," said Xu. "But to arrest a child, I found that astonishing".
There was hardly a fact of contemporary New York City school life that I found more astonishing than this... Mentions the Attitude Readjustment Center or ARC, which is a depository for students caught without a hall pass.
