Sentence examples for astonishing description from inspiring English sources

I shall never forget the astonishing description of what it would be like to be a mole underground.

Boris Johnson's astonishing description of Sir Michael Scholar, head of the UK's independent statistics watchdog, as "a Labour stooge" was one of those moments when the jovial public persona of the London mayor suddenly dissolved to reveal the rather less attractive hard core Conservative underneath.

There is an astonishing description at the beginning of her watching a frog just bitten by a beetle and the immediate, sad passing of life, leaving for a moment the empty skin only to sink into the water and disappear into cruel history.

There is also in this book what has to be one of the most astonishing descriptions of a childbirth ever written.

The New Orleans tale of the adulterous couple is all emotional passion, which in the narrative of the escaped convict on a boat in the Mississippi floods is transformed into astonishing descriptions of the waters and the physical battle to stay alive.

Camilla had a 20-year-old Miss J. Austen as a subscriber, and Burney's influence on Pride and Prejudice is palpable, while another legacy was an astonishing and harrowing description of a mastectomy performed without anaesthetic.

Ms. Paterson's writing career has included 39 books of astonishing range, with descriptions of peasant life in 12th-century Japan, strikes by mill workers in early-20th-century Massachusetts and a refugee camp in late-20th-century Macedonia.

On The People, Common spits "my raps ignite the people like Obama," the perfect description of his astonishing campaign.

There are astonishing evocations of France and explicit descriptions of anal sex.

Leonardo was a professional engineer, and the Codex Hammer consists largely of descriptions and illustrations of his astonishing if not very glamorous observations of the properties of water.

"To be able to write like that when she was going through what she was going through is just astonishing – the sheer beauty of the language, the descriptions of the environment; she has such an amazing sense of place".