Warsi's own reasoning is set out in her resignation letter and tweet to David Cameron, an "astonishing charge sheet" in Patrick Wintour's analysis, subtly amplified in Rafael Behr's column.
Astonishing for the Conservative party, because they have got more money than they know what to do with.
She described his conduct as "astonishing" in an exchange between the two.
Lancashire won this face-off at the RTS awards but my vote would be for Hawes, who played the embattled Lindsay Denton in Jed Mercurio's astonishing police thriller Line of Duty.
Successive laws passed by New Labour have pared down our liberty at an astonishing rate.
You say I have 'pared down our liberty at an astonishing rate', then list a whole lot of fundamental rights, as if these had all been drastically curtailed.
In the end only half that number could be accommodated but to do so the organisers had to hire extra venues to cater for meetings on an astonishing range of social and political topics.
In an astonishing display of power-hitting he scored 24 runs off a single over from Panesar and guided the Australians to 527 for five declared, setting England an insurmountable 557 to win.
Given his views, was it not astonishing that he should have been given the job by a government described in Nicholas Shaxson's bombshell book Treasure Islands as now being "utterly captured by the financial services industry"?
Manuel Pellegrini, the sword of Abu Dhamocles constantly hovering over his head, will be desperate to finish the season with a sixth victory in a row against a Saints team in a poor run of form (that astonishing first-half, five-goal outlier against Aston Villa apart).
This is the world so beloved of YouTube circus performers who take titles like Crackdown and Grand Theft Auto and turn them into vast and astonishing stunt shows.
