No one describes his tone of voice or rhythm, but it is, as White says, "an astounding sentence," and in a fine novelistic moment he imagines that Lincoln spoke it not as loud crescendo but "softly, mournfully".
LAST Saturday, The Associated Press sent out a short report datelined Salt Lake City that began with this astounding sentence: "A passenger who tried to break into the cockpit during a Southwest Airlines flight was killed by other passengers who restrained him, and not by a heart attack, an autopsy has concluded".
And while the book has fun with suspense and noir cliche – Rebecca, the redhead, is more an idea than a fully developed presence – it is full of astounding and funny sentences that only Moshfegh could have written.
Indeed, in his manifesto leaking the document, he called this sentence "an astounding bit of honesty, a killing admission that completely undercuts the main premise and the main conclusion of the full report, revealing the fundamental dishonesty of the whole".
On Tuesday, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, told a news conference in Geneva: "The astounding number of people sentenced to death in this case is unprecedented in recent history".
A Rhodes scholar who graduated from Stanford and Yale Law, Booker won his office in 2006 after first running unsuccessfully in 2002 against the incumbent, Sharpe James, who governed Newark for an astounding 20 years (and was sentenced last month to prison time on federal corruption charges).
If you just stop and think about that sentence, it is pretty astounding, on its own.
More astounding in a city of licentiousness, he sentences him to death.
In the course of comprehension, the human brain makes astounding inferences despite insufficient and ambiguous data the data mostly being 'words' that frame sentences.
"It is an astounding thing, how often people in this country go on trial after they have already served the maximum sentence for their alleged crime," said a lawyer, Sankar Sen, who studied the courts for the National Commission on Human Rights.
And, inevitably or otherwise, it occurred to Tadazumi Ishida to load up on the insurance and then claim an astounding succession of holes in one, thereby swindling four insurance companies out of maybe $50,000 and ultimately getting himself sentenced, last October in Akita District Court, to two years in prison.
