And yet, astonishingly, the next morning everyone goes about his business as though dancing until 2 A.M. weren't a big deal.
The altitude and the wind made for an astonishingly cold night, perhaps in the mid-40s, but we couldn't bring ourselves to leave the view behind just yet.
Last night's astonishingly attended impromptu protests in dozens of towns and cities around the UK was just the beginning.
The first ended after 4am on Sunday; the second, which began that afternoon, astonishingly was still in session more than 24 hours later.
Astonishingly, by Tuesday night, everything has changed: Gergiev and classical music's most exclusive pick-up band give a concert of unrelenting intensity and edge-of-the-seat excitement.
He made it through that evening and, even more astonishingly, repeated the same concert the night after.
The LAPD concert band didn't play "I Love L.A.," the song that had Hahn so astonishingly animated on election night.
Yes, Simone Biles is the greatest gymnast in history — she was even before she won her first Olympic gold last night — but she has astonishingly talented teammates.
I myself will be covering the "Your Brain on the Internet" panel, which will astonishingly bring together Nicholson Baker and Jaron Lanier, on Sunday afternoon.
Today Ayanokoji, 37, has a weekly show on Fuji TV that has an astonishingly high rating for a show that airs at 1: 20 a.m.
Crowd-pleasing Midori Ito of Japan, airing her astonishingly high jumps, was third for the evening.
