Sentence examples for but astonishing from inspiring English sources

But astonishing?

They are common but astonishing.

That's the kind of obscure but astonishing life story we keep glimpsing in the background.

I'll leave off by saluting some rather old-fashioned-looking but astonishing abstract sculptures, in painted cement and clay, by the San Franciscan Vincent Fecteau.

Film directors have had better luck with opera on film: witness Ingmar Bergman's "Zauberflöte" and Hans Jürgen Syberberg's eccentric but astonishing "Parsifal".

The tempo was fast, to say the least, in "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux" where Miranda Weese's unforced and gracious dancing complemented Damian Woetzel's unassuming but astonishing bravura.

Turnout is relatively strong but not astonishing.

But then, astonishing he is.

She is in fragments but still astonishing.

It looked pretty, but hardly astonishing, dramatic or exciting.

Up close, the plants were pretty, but not astonishing.