Sentence examples for an astounding scene from inspiring English sources

Terence Davies's new film, "The Deep Blue Sea" (which opens today), features one of the greatest tracking shots in the history of cinema: an astounding scene that serves as a flashback to a memory of the Second World War.

All around him was an astounding scene of destruction: giant bronze incense burners shattered by falling masonry; an ancient pagoda obliterated; a monument to the temple's patron deity — said to be one of China's oldest stone statues — fractured at the waist.

Ria tells Lalit to take action, and at first he refuses; then, in a sudden and astounding scene, he throws Tej out of the house.

It's a work of aesthetics, of art (and the movie culminates in a brief but astounding scene of special effects that, in their simplicity and power, are better than any in, say, "Gravity").

In one astounding scene, Mr. Chauvel takes cover behind a berm with Libyan rebels.

(In one astounding scene, the writer is seemingly airborne in front of a movie screen, and meets his childhood self, who's manipulating a movie projector).

In one astounding scene, the Bulls coach Phil Jackson backs up Hodges, chiding Jordan and the others' ignorance about the Gulf War, offering a prophetic vision of the coming decades.

Even that astounding scene where Lady Lyndon falls in love with Barry seems structured like a kind of duel, the two facing each other, and Barry's insistent stare a soft challenge that overwhelms his prey.

Every one of the actors interviewed in the book is exercised and sometimes defeated by the question of what to make of the astounding scene of the king's arrival and his abrupt call to business: Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.

All who witnessed the astounding scene might be forgiven for overlooking the fact that one poor duckling did not moult at all.

The most astounding scenes in his work are those in which all the voices come together in a visceral mass — like a human wave that could carry anything before it.