Sentence examples for astounding set from inspiring English sources

Given that the male nude was a staple of Western art from Praxiteles, in the fourth century B.C., up to Rodin, its absence from movies — other than pornography — has been a grave and prudish waste, and Nikolai's struggle in "Eastern Promises" is an astounding set piece of savagery and vulnerability.

But buying one of the most venerable institutions of journalism in this country is not so astounding when set against the grander backdrop of Jeff Bezos's ambitions.

Intel's previous record was an astounding 64%, set in early 1993 and then again in early 1997.

Bannister's lasted just 46 days before Landy, running from the front at a meeting in Turku, Finland, posted an astounding 3min 58sec, to set up the "Mile of the Century" at the British Empire Games (as they were still called) in Vancouver early in August.

And few amateur runners were more admired by friends and strangers alike than Ed Whitlock, a retired engineer from Milton, Ontario, who, until his death last month, of prostate cancer, at the age of eighty-six, wasettingng astounding age-group records while pursuing the same simple, solitary training regimen that he'd been following for more than forty years.

But in the women's eight-hundred-metre freestyle the nineteen-year-old American swimmer Katie Ledecky won by an astounding twelve seconds, and set a new world record.

Meanwhile, you can read Randall Roberts's take on it from the L.A. Weekly, in which he calls the set "pretty astounding" on the basis of a Blu-Ray demo and an advance of the DVD version.

At Christie's the day before, astounding auction records were set when Fra Bartolommeo's Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the infant Saint John Baptist made £2.16 million and the little known Giuliano Bugiardini's portrait of a young man brought £825,250 — true, the Bugiardini was once called a Raphael.

There are some extraordinary memorable, twisted scenes backed by a fine cast, including the incomparable Barabra Bouchet and a killer Ortolani soundtrack, all set in astounding locations in southern Italy.

If she wants to create a movement (the ego implication is astounding) she should be setting up something like Pell Grants or other ways to help women become successful.

It is astounding to imagine Bartok setting down this landmark of orchestral literature, frail and weak with leukemia as he was in 1943.