Sentence examples for astonishing powers from inspiring English sources

However, in my opinion, what lifts him truly into the first rank are his astonishing powers as a draughtsman.

Its inspiration is to both the naturalist and the author, occupations that are integrally linked through Thoreau's astonishing powers of observation.

The great statements of his sometimes astonishing powers have not, certainly, been so regular since he was first besieged by serious criticism in the first Test of the 2009 Ashes series.

The "blue bean" had astonishing powers - accelerating muscle build-up and boosting recovery times - but its subsequent side effects were catastrophic: infertility among women, embarrassing hair growth, breast cancer, heart problems and testicular cancer.

The scene is a miracle of pacing, economy and wit (the film's based on a play co-written by Ben Hecht, so that's no surprise) and Grant and Russell – playing Beatrice and Benedick as much as Walter and Hildy – are at the height of their astonishing powers.

Between them they created the magical setting so lovingly described long afterward in Bayley's widely read books about Iris: the leaky, rat-ridden, dust-coated Oxfordshire manor house without heating or water mains where, over the next four decades, Murdoch transposed her astonishing powers as a fabulist from fact to fiction.

It's a sequence of astonishing power.

Industrial societies now wield astonishing power.

In Collins's fiction, women fight back, often with astonishing power.

And to George Osborne it is a political weapon of astonishing power.

At just 24, Gubanova already possesses a voice of astonishing power and poise.