Overwhelming in her fervor, her efficiency, and her malignity, Sheela is the natural star of a documentary that handily evokes astonishment, at the expense of illustrating the mundane.
He appeared suddenly out of obscurity at the end of the 19th century and blazed in the literary firmament for decades, evoking astonishment and awe and alarm, like the comet of In the Days of the Comet which threatened to destroy the earth, but in fact transformed it by the beneficial effect of its gaseous tail".
Its four movements evoke an astonishment that deepens with every hearing.
"What evoked the most astonishment," Dr. [William] Brownlee continues, "was his disclosure that the Teacher of Righteousness, founder of the sect of the scrolls, was in some respects an exact prototype of Jesus, particularly as a martyred prophet, revered by his followers as the suffering Servant of the Lord in Deutero-Isaiah".
"What evoked the most astonishment," Dr. Brownlee continues, "was his disclosure that the Teacher of Righteousness, founder of the sect of the scrolls, was in some respects an exact prototype of Jesus, particularly as a martyred prophet, revered by his followers as the suffering Servant of the Lord In Deutero-Isaiah" (Second Isaiah, the unknown author of the later chapters of the Book of Isaiah).
Its specter would have gone beyond astonishment to other common reactions evoked by the master's unpredictable work: unease and foreboding.
Much like hearing people who go to the theater and remark when Kelli O'Hara or Idina Menzel's voices evoke gasps, I felt moved to laughter, tears, and astonishment by the signing of certain Deaf actors in particular moments.
Visitors stand beneath the monument in astonishment and dread -- yet it also evokes among them whispered, secret pride.
The scientific element of microphotography suggests a hidden world of biochemical astonishment and menace, as images of a medical, quasi-diagnostic depth evoke a physical unconscious that ultimately binds people to the natural world far more tightly and enduringly than does any ecological enthusiasm.
Writer-artist Joëlle Jones evokes the idealised world of mid-century US advertising – all wide-eyed housewives miming astonishment at the latest mod-cons – only to take great pleasure in blasting the fantasy apart with enough blood spatter to test even the most scientifically advanced stain remover.
