Sentence examples for gently astonishing from inspiring English sources
Ang's in London on Monday to promote his movie version (he's done a "gently astonishing" job according to our own Tom Shone) and we've got some time to put your questions to him.
In his gently astonishing new film, Life of Pi, adapted from Yann Martel's 2001 bestseller, director Ang Lee melds so many disparate elements – Aesopian fable and cutting-edge 3D technology, east and west, young and old – that he may have just succeeded in rebranding himself as the Obama of world cinema.
He had recorded a video for the New York cable access show "Midnight Ukulele Disco" that shows him sitting in Strawberry Fields in Central Park playing an astonishing virtuoso version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
Perching at the top of the bay is the decorative Venetian town of Perast, which has an astonishing 16 churches and an equal number of gently decaying mansions.
After Ian peeled off, the road rose gently and I was greeted by one of the most astonishing things I had ever seen.
Not a beekeeper, though, harvesting honey and maintaining hives; his interest lies with the wild, gently meandering bumble bee, of which the UK has an astonishing 24 different species.
But driven gently, using the steep overdrives in its standard seven-speed manual transmission, the C7 Corvette can return astonishing fuel economy.
While his footballing career probably reached its zenith with the astonishing display against Greece in 2001, his commercial appeal accelerated even as his on-pitch talents gently waned.
Gently, gently, with love!
They were just astonishing.
