I was intrigued by his TED talk, in which he screened astonishing before-and-after pictures purporting to show the transformative impacts of his technique.
The harmonic surprises in the first movement of "The Lark" are as astonishing as before, but there is an absence of show and a touch of solemnity about them.
(Even the S.E.C.'s charges against Robert Allen Stanford, accused of running an $8 billion swindle — on a scale that would have been astonishing in the Before Madoff era — are second rate now).
In retrospect, now that the buying and selling of foreign rights has become such a competitive part of publishing, it seems astonishing that, before Knopf, no American firm had thought to import these writers.
That is an astonishing reverse: before the American bombing started on October 7th, they controlled more than 90%.
At the time, though, he said he was keen to "accept Simon's astonishing offer before other greedy people jump in".
The Rock seems more than capable of performing 12 astonishing labours before the first of his many gigantic, protein-packed breakfasts.
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Sitting in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam waiting for its resident orchestra to start a concert when you have never experienced the hall's astonishing acoustics before is a dream come true for any epicure of orchestral music.
The current streak began on Nov. 10, when "Pokemon" opened, catching the craze for the Japanese animated phenomenon at its crest and earning an astonishing $50.7 million before the end of its first weekend and another $17 million the following weekend.
