Sentence examples for astonishing question from inspiring English sources

The same notebook also contains the astonishing question that Proust posed to himself in 1908, the year he began work on "À la Recherche": "Faut-il en faire un roman, une étude philosophique, suis-je romancier?" ("Should it be a novel, a philosophical study, am I a novelist?").

It's an astonishing question, but I'm not surprised that a rich, married white man asks it, because he has no idea what it's like to be a second-class citizen.

Many observers assumed the Washington Post's thundering scoop of Trump's hot-mic remarks in which he boasted about grabbing women "by the pussy", together with Megyn Kelly's astonishing opening question at the first TV debate in which she reminded the candidate that he had called women "fat pigs" and "dogs", would hand female voters, and thus the presidency, to Clinton.

On Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas asked an astonishing 10 questions from the bench for the first time in a decade -- perhaps one question for each year of silence.

It is astonishing, but the question of whether a small slice of Americans should be able to choose between a government-run health insurance plan and private health insurance plans is threatening passage of much-needed health care reform.

His fierce energy and appetite for hard work were astonishing, he asked questions of painting on a daily basis, he took risks, he spent a year investigating performance art, wrote a perceptive dissertation on Picasso and ultimately produced a body of work way beyond the student norm.

The story neither named nor quoted any of the five faculty members who'd asked questions, astonishing because if anyone in the room could have been quoted without risk of reprisal from Singapore or the Yale administration, we could have been.

That Clinton honestly perceives and admires this trait in his wife — whom he referred to at one point as "an astonishing person" — seems beyond question.

A front-page headline last week in the state-run Beijing Today put the question with astonishing frankness: "Is Super Girl a Force for Democracy?"In a country conspicuously lacking in democratic choice, this rare opportunity to vote and make a difference even if only to the outcome of the "Mengniu Sour Yoghurt Super Voice Girl" competition—has inspired a remarkable debate.

The fact they can't answer that question is astonishing.

I am turning 65, a birthday pinnacle that, without question, sounds astonishing even to me.