Sentence examples for as rather astonishing from inspiring English sources

Mr Juppé describes as "rather astonishing" last month's comments by Robert Gates, the former American defence secretary, criticising Europe's paltry defence efforts.

Though a world-class collector of data on anti-Catholicism -- a bias rather astonishing, as he shows, in its historical depth, its varieties and their application to basic issues of modern democracy -- he is not an apologist for the church.

Which makes it rather astonishing that Charles Jessold, Considered As a Murderer, his third novel, is set in a classical-music milieu.

RICHARD BRODY: Second, it's a year of radical cinema: it's actually rather astonishing that such movies as "Shutter Island" and "Somewhere" should be anywhere near the mainstream.

As the journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee complete their third month of detainment in North Korea, it remains rather astonishing that they were there in the first place to report for a fledgling cable channel.

I find it all rather astonishing.

Something else rather astonishing happened on the tour.

Photo Tina Fineberg/APThanks to the gaol house blog for noticing the rather astonishing list on Art Garfunkel's official website of every book he has read in the last 30 years as a "voracious reader".

But the rather astonishing discovery for me was that, by the end of the evening, I was convinced I enjoyed Das Rheingold more in this setting than I would have as part of the audience at the official venue.

The number of A-list Hollywood stars who blacked up for roles — Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire — is rather astonishing.

These royals are played by Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, two rather astonishing specimens of human beauty.