Sentence examples for astonishing act from inspiring English sources

"It was an astonishing act of defiance," said Callum MacLeod of USA Today.

An astonishing act of moral conscience that would be a shock today, let alone in 1895.

But in an astonishing act of corporate blackmail, the banks themselves then insisted that they be subsidised by the state.

Even some of his comrades would probably have seen this astonishing act of defiance as nothing short of sacrilegious.

It was an astonishing act of altruism that would not only change both of their lives but would help change the landscape of organ donation in the UK.

So intense is his passion, in fact, that when Shun-kin suffers a facial disfigurement, he performs an astonishing act of self-sacrifice.

The passengers, who left with tears and hugs, have responded with their own astonishing acts of generosity.

There were astonishing acts of bravery, but also of alcohol-induced buffoonery (such as the ceremony to mark the Russian military withdrawal from Berlin in 1994, when he grabbed a baton and conducted the band).

He strides through its marble halls in a top hat, frock coat, and cravat, and challenges the other artists, including John Constable, with muttered remarks and such astonishing acts as disfiguring one of his own maritime paintings with a smudge of crimson.

They were signalling the loss of certainty over a superb fighting tradition, and you were bound to join them if you happened to spend some time with another Australia captain, Steve Waugh, when he produced one of the most astonishing acts of individual commitment and will in his team's 4-1 trinmph in 2001.

Some might say that imaginary friends are cultivated at the expense of real ones, and that the contemplation of such things as George Michael's astonishing acts of private generosity is no substitute for actually giving yourself to a food bank or visiting granny in her nursing home.