The big engine delivers an astonishing wave of torque in an understated surge that flings the big Mercedes forward like a velvet-clad booster rocket.
The astonishing shock wave that accompanied it injured more than a thousand people.
If someone wrote, for instance, that Dan Barber's foie gras with ground coffee beans is at once as inevitable as a tide and as astonishing as a wave, the reader's first response would be to think, quite rightly, that it is not, at all.
And like The Avengers, Sony was able to ride a tidal-wave of astonishing overseas box office prior to its stateside debut.
The huge wave, after traveling at hundreds of miles per hour, entered the narrow bay, and as the shoaling beach slowed down the leading edge of the wave, millions of gallons of water began piling up behind, until the wave reached the astonishing and totally terrifying height of 135 feet, as tall as a 10-story building.
(As outlandish as those details were, they were surpassed by the sheer physicality of the gentleman in question, a man whose astonishing ranine qualities inspired a wave of Chinese parodies online).
The film works from juxtaposition by turns shocking, bizarre and gorgeous: so a room of skulls bounce up against the terracotta army; a felled tree contrasts with battery farming; burning oil wells blend with bouncing African tribal rituals; a monkey in a hot spring is followed by an astonishing sequence of massed arm-waving from somewhere Oriental.
Huddled in our massive down jackets and trying to shelter under the gantry, we were put to shame by the astonishing small seabirds swooping around the enormous waves.
The Besiktas keeper made an astonishing double stop to deny Dries Mertens and continued to repel wave after wave of attacks from the men in red.
In an effortless display of leading from behind, Hillary was partying in Colombia while the Taliban were about to launch a wave of terror attacks in Kabul.What astonishing nonsense.
