He has reason to feel astounded by his own good fortune, for although he sits here in Hollywood, at the epicentre of the brash new world that is capitalist America, Choudhury has made his millions from a 5,000 year-old Indian tradition promoting spiritual rather than worldly aspirations.
White said that he started writing stories because the Slant team felt that Astounding Science Fiction was too dominated by prophesies of nuclear doom, and his friends dared him to write the kind of story that they all liked to read.
— With the Cardinals headed to their first Super Bowl, their fans and maybe some of their players still felt a bit astounded Monday.
The fact that the developers have made this progression feel so intuitive is astounding.
The coincidence at once astounded me and felt unremarkable.
He put some in his nose more or less out of curiosity, felt nothing, but was then astounded to find that he wanted to stay up all night writing music, and was still lively the next day.
While it has never lost its power to move and astound, it feels especially pertinent in 2014, when the number of men and women sleeping in shelters or on the streets of New York City is higher than since the great depression.
Cannon was astounded to learn, too, that the aides "felt free to sign his initials on documents, without noting that they were acting for him".
It still astounds me — Derek's brilliance as a hitter has always felt fresh and surprising, for some reason — and here it comes one more time.
The raw power you feel when holding five leather bound books in the palm of your hand is astounding.
It is astounding what a good man will do for a good woman that has made him feel loved.
