Sentence examples for astonishing bit from inspiring English sources

Lee won the Pulitzer prize for fiction: an astonishing bit of precocity.

In an astonishing bit of luxury casting, the Swedish Radio Choir, one of the finest choruses in the world, was brought in for relatively brief but crucial contributions, in the choral fantasy and in movements from the Mass in C major.

The really astonishing bit is how quickly the Structure works in capturing all of this data.

My tour of Abu Dhabi included a stop at the Sheik Zayed Grand Mosque, an astonishing bit of architecture that can accommodate 40,000 worshippers during Eid.

An astonishing bit of contemporary propaganda, "Message from Mississippi," tells the world that all is well in the Magnolia State: "Out of the statewide pattern of segregation, mutual respect and cooperation among the races has arisen a productive, law-abiding way of life".

"Citizen Kane" is made up of an astonishing number of such bits of technique, and of sequences built to make their points and get their laughs and hit climax just before a fast cut takes us to the next.

It isn't, but people think that's a bit astonishing in itself".

That's really a bit astonishing, if not ridiculous, when you think about it.

Everyone was talking about how the artist normally known for his ugly portraits could be an astonishing colorist, every bit as complicated as Picasso, Velasquez, Matisse and many photographers (Muybridge) and filmmakers (Eisenstein) whom he took as inspiration.

Then a bit of astonishing theatre: a between-his-legs flick by the young man that skimmed the net for a winner that left even Nadal impressed.

Instead, the American documentarian wasted little time in returning to the same atrocity, deftly flipping focus from violator to victim, and making a film every bit as astonishing.