Sentence examples for astonishing manner from inspiring English sources

"Cosey, who had good reason to he proud of his Lincoln forgeries, had mastered Lincoln's writing in an astonishing manner," she writes.

By the age of six, Grimaldi was considered a prominent stage performer by the press, with one critic from the Gazetteer commenting that "the infant son of Grimaldi performs in an astonishing manner".

Thor himself journeys to Thrym, disguised as a bride, and the humour derives from the "bride's" astonishing manners at the wedding feast, where she eats an ox and eight salmon, and drinks three vessels of mead.

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Mr. Pollini behaved in his accustomed manner: with astonishing technique, intelligent appraisal and a sympathy that seemed to descend on the music from several stories above the rest of us.

In a comparison Bolaño openly solicits (the novel contains a series of unnecessary but totally charming defenses of its own formal strategies and magnitude) these five long sequences interlock to form an astonishing whole, in the same manner that fruits, vegetables, meats, flowers or books interlock in the unforgettable paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo to form a human face.

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In "Dictators' Dinners: A Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants," Victoria Clark and Melissa Scott offer astonishing insights into dictators' table manners, food vices, and fears of poisonings.

In 1929 he went to the Old Vic and within a year he had played Macbeth, Hamlet, Oberon, Orlando, Romeo again and Richard II, and was instantly established as an outstanding and a very modern Shakespearean, eschewing the ponderous and orotund vocal manners of tradition, astonishing audiences with the celerity of his thinking and the directness of his emotional response.

The film's Charlotte remains true to Mr. Faulks's engaging heroine, who speaks perfect French, wears lily-of-the-valley perfume and conceals "an astonishing nervous intensity" behind her sweetly diffident manner.

Bear witness to the obligatory drunk scene at the top of Act 2, played out in tired stock manner; the Act 1 curtain, astonishing for its sheer lethargy; the students marching down the aisles.