Her PA campaign chair Gov. Ed Rendell said this of him: "His depth on analysis when it comes to the racial ills of this nation is astounding and eye opening.
The energy he conveys in performance is unmistakable; his style is unique, with quivering fingers, burning focus in the eyes and astounding physical magnetism.
Using the money he earned from amateur contests, he made the leap from casual darter to professional "arrowman" in 1976, immediately turning heads that same year when in one contest he hit the bull's-eye an astounding 86 times out of 141 tries.
This, in itself, involves what would have been an astounding thesis in the eyes of his contemporaries, one that was usually misunderstood and always vilified.
"I have seen with my own eyes the absolutely astounding impact the bedroom tax has on disabled and sick people.
Curled over his instrument like a comma, the guitarist during "Red Eyes" was particularly astounding.
Since then, Dr. Rios says his hospital has been training new eye doctors at an astounding rate of 2,100 this year, half of them surgeons.
The eye sees first the astounding ferocity of the contests, the refusal of each fighter to yield, the skill, the ringcraft, the sense that each man was fighting for his life as much as his livelihood.
With the specially produced videos that play in electronics stores, those HDTVs and DVD players produce pictures so astounding you can scarcely believe your eyes.
It is astounding how many females in the public eye reject the term 'feminism' today.
