Sentence examples for astonishing longevity from inspiring English sources

Whether all this contributed to his astonishing longevity is anyone's guess.

Since the days of Caxton and Gutenberg, print-on-paper has shown astonishing longevity.

Notable only for the astonishing longevity of its source material, the film strains to wring humor from slutty bridesmaids and a black priest with Baptist vocal stylings.

(Laura Kern) 'TONY N' TINA'S WEDDING' (No rating, 1 46) Notable only for the astonishing longevity of its source material, this dated sendup of low-class comportment celebrates the merger of two equally dysfunctional Italian-American families.

I cite this for two reasons: one to give a sense of Maugham's stature and reputation, even in the late 1960s, just a few years after his death; and, two, as a tribute to his astonishing longevity.

Roger Angell, who began writing about baseball for The New Yorker two years after Updike, and whose career has had an astonishing longevity — he's the Ripken or Gehrig to Updike's blazing youthful phenom — has said that "Hub Fans" most of all supplied him with a tone: colloquial, attentive, unashamed of feeling or of striving for an elegant turn of phrase.

O'Connor's career is astonishing – for its brevity and longevity.

For a man whose life is measured out in fractions of a second his longevity is equally astonishing.

Given this versatility and longevity, it seems astonishing that its manufacturer Victorinox makes any money at all.

The longevity of his achievements in the German capital was astonishing.

In any case, Saint-Saëns's longevity (born in 1835, he died in 1921), ubiquity and astonishing productivity guaranteed his centrality in French music between the Franco-Prussian treaty of 1871 and the end of World War I.