To reporters, this was a particularly astonishing example of an already controlling White House run amok.
Written in dozens of miniature books, these manuscripts – with curious, secretive titles such as A Peep into a Picture Book, The Spell, A Leaf from an Unopened Volume – are not only an astonishing example of craftsmanship, but contain extraordinary, uncensored content.
Yet the story, which was first reported by a Hong Kong tabloid and then picked up in the western press, apparently originated with a satirical post on a Chinese social media network, turning a thinly-sourced horror story into an astonishing example of the media echo chamber gone awry.
Valentino had earned the right to take it easy for the next 600 years; instead, he sets an astonishing example of resilience, compassion and charity.
At OkCupid.com, however, it is left up to members to suggest dating criteria, and the result is an astonishing example of the need by some to quantify the ideal mate.
"It was an astonishing example of the massive economic effect of detailed examination of entomology," says Barclay.
Kilday depicts eighteenth-century normative femininity as so successful in imposing passive subordination that each counterexample she finds can be depicted as an astonishing example of female agency.
No one can predict what may be found, but some species of microbes are considered likely - which would provide an astonishing example of the adaptability of life to incredibly hostile environments.
Yet he does not hesitate to state his own views on potentially controversial matters, as when asked what he thought about homosexual priests, he declared "Who am I to judge?" Coming from the supreme pontiff, that statement itself is an astonishing example of both humility and assertiveness.
