Sentence examples for astonishing learning from inspiring English sources

Europeans are currently going through an astonishing learning curve: Greeks are coming to terms with the fact that the European Union isn't just the friendly aunt from the distant west that sorts out our infrastructure but that it can make demands too.

And it is pleasantly astonishing to learn that in the Florence of the 1300's each person drank a gallon of wine a week.

It is astonishing to learn that some stores have seven tiers of management between the shop floor and the store manager.

It is astonishing to learn that events of years gone by are encoded in the brain in a pattern of electrical and chemical connections, but the technical details can still be confusing.

The President's Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies.

It's truly astonishing to learn that this beautiful, evocative district is threatened by over-zealous town planners.

This, as well as other amazing and strange aspects of our evolutionary history called attention to by Shubin, was astonishing to learn about.

This was apparent to most politics-watchers in late spring, so it is downright astonishing to learn that only now is the White House becoming concerned about this widespread perception.

(It is almost equally astonishing to learn--after watching this performance--that the 22-year-old Platt headed the Chicago company of The Book of Mormon as the buffoonish Elder Cunningham. He presumably grew up under the influence of Wicked, as his father is the top-billed producer of that blockbuster, but his performance certainly speaks for itself).

There is an astonishing amount of knowledge, learning and feeling in this book.

(Swirski, 2007, p. 123) As for why thought experiments, and by derivation literature have the astonishing cognitive power of learning new things about the world just by thinking, we are offered an account of the human trait of story telling in terms of evolutionary psychology (see Swirski, 2007, pp. 68 95).