Not long before, Ayelet Waldman came out with "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits," which, while apparently not astonishing in and of itself, did include a character that the novelist Andrew Sean Greer described as "astonishing".
His first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, took a panoramic view of a single day in a residential street, investing apparently trivial eventswith astonishing pathos.
The temperature hits 75C, all the more astonishing, apparently, because the chips were served in an open tray rather than wrapped: "My guess is that they might have been 80C.
My saltimbocca was astonishing.
An 1802 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach makes the astonishing but apparently authoritative claim that the Master "learned to think musically" from his study of Vivaldi's concertos.
One proposal apparently rests on the astonishing assumption that Northern Rock would be able to win a 25% share of British retail deposits over the next three years.On December 14th the Treasury asked Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, to see if it could line up a group of banks willing to finance the stricken mortgage lender.
1Non-disclAnder: while their tenUberwriting for TechCrunch overlapped mine by a year or so, I'se never met or corresponded with either.
Honest!... Isn't it astonishing, and fun, and exhausting?" Apparently, audiences still think so.
"It was astonishing that the charity had apparently spent our money and was already requiring more emergency funding".
Darwin's manuscripts are the historical record of how an apparently ordinary man came to believe the astonishing truth that there is strong evidence for a theory from which it follows that what we see as most important about ourselves consciousness, language, art, and even our religious beliefs are a part of our organic history.
