It could of course be that he is paralysed by his father's age, his frailty, his vulnerability, and by his continuing astonishment at the turn his father's life has taken.
And his campaign advisers continue to express astonishment that a disastrous campaign, convention and candidate, as well as a lack of familiarity with what Stevens dismissively calls "whiz-bang turnout technologies," could possibly lead to defeat.
It is a measure of what things are like in North Korea that those who have escaped invariably speak of their first impression of the peasant villages and factory towns of China's rough and underdeveloped northeast with a continuing sense of astonishment that just across a fifty-metre-wide river people could be living in such extraordinary wealth, with all modern comforts, and such freedom.
"What is new and what is worth the astonishment, wonder and condemnation?" he continued.
But to the astonishment of many experts, it continued to permit the sale of old federal documents that detailed the government's research on and production of biological weapons.
The cities had been able to get their dikes to this level, but the river continued to rise past it, to the astonishment of the NWS (which did not upgrade its forecast until April 16, the day the river actually reached 49 feet).
The Company soldiers continued fighting even when grievously wounded, to the astonishment of the Matabele, who thought the whites must be bewitched: "These are not men but magicians," said one Matabele inDuna.
"We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished," the statement continued.
All of this continued a trend that has been seen for years, provoking a generalized sense of grief and astonishment on editorial pages, where pundits competed with one another to outdo their criticisms of the Spanish educational system.
Nevertheless, Clark continued to focus on preparations for a ground war, and the plan he ultimately proposed was greeted in Washington with astonishment.
