Sentence examples for first astonishing from inspiring English sources

It was really that first astonishing glimpse that inspired the novel.

It all appeared, at first, astonishing and miraculous: "It seems like a dream having a child".

Her first astonishing collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, jumped into the shaky lives of Dublin women with a kind of desperate joking and surrealist brio.

India, in fact, has been gaga over beauty contests since 1994, the year of that first astonishing Miss World-Miss Universe twin triumph.

Then a second astonishing thing happened.

And Mr. Miles, in his third astonishing stage performance in a row, brings to the part something of the clenched, clipped speech — not to mention the sideburns — of Pinter himself: an act of homage it is a shame the dramatist, who died on Christmas Eve 2008, is not able to see for himself.

The first involves astonishing misconduct by the Internal Revenue Service IRSS).

And indeed the pattern seems at first sight astonishing.

Kamel Daoud is a well-known oppositional journalist who lives in Algiers under the threat of a fatwa, and this is his first, wholly astonishing novel.

One of the ciliates belongs to a genus called Coleps, and one of the amoebae can be identified not only to a genus, but to a species: Centropyxis hirsuta.Given how much the vertebrate fauna changed over the subsequent millions of years, that is, at first sight, astonishing.

By the time the next installment — called "Seven Plus Seven" — loomed, the director of "7 Up" had left Granada and Apted had become a director himself, so he took on the task).... Nice surprises like this have come with greater frequency as the children have grown up, but the first truly astonishing surprise is in "42 Up".