Sentence examples for astounding turn from inspiring English sources

It was an astounding turn of events for a man who was arguably the most powerful — and controversial — man in the Confederate cabinet.

The agreement would, in effect, turn the company's defeat in court into victory an astounding turn of events after even the conservative Washington, DC, appeals court unanimously found that Microsoft had repeatedly abused its monopoly power.

The book itself becomes something like one of those newspaper extras in an old black-and-white Hollywood movie, a Daily Globe or an Evening Dispatch that comes spinning out at the viewer to signal some astounding turn of events.

I was mostly exposed to musical theater through the movie versions of popular shows, and Ms. Streisand's soulful, funny, magnetic and vocally astounding turn as Fanny Brice was one of the first that captivated me and inspired a curiosity about the particular allure of musical theater.

This is an astounding turn for the Arizona maverick that voted against the 2003 Bush tax cuts in the name of fiscal sanity.

"Marcel Reich-Ranicki achieved something astounding: turning critical literary cogitation into a popular pastime," wrote Heinrich Detering, president of the German Academy for Language and Literature.

Partnership for America's Families registered 86,000 voters in the mayoral election in Philadelphia last year: an astounding number for a city of 1.5m and, it turned out, decisive.

That is an astounding number.

That's an astounding number.

Indeed there are an astounding number of candidate compounds.

An astounding number of 44 risk factors were reported.