Sentence examples for high astounding from inspiring English sources

Her medium is mostly blank verse in iambic pentameter, that wonderfully supple form that could accommodate both exalted poetry — "high astounding terms," in Marlowe's own phrase — and those natural, casual-seeming speech-rhythms at which Shakespeare excelled.

In a verse prologue, when Marlowe invites the audience to "View but his [Tamburlaine's] picture in this tragic glass," he had in mind little more, perhaps, than the trappings and tone of tragedy: "the stately tent of war," which is to be his scene, and "the high astounding terms," which will be his rhetoric.

Knowing there was an actual Kopecky family band out there in the Midwest before she was old enough to go to high school astounded Kelsey.

CDs are still difficult to open; like the gentlemen of the Victorian age who carried scissors inside their coats to snip the stays of ladies who had fainted, men of my acquaintance now carry pocketknives solely for the purpose of opening CDs.... Audiophiles devoted to the "high end" were astounded by how much better their LPs sounded than the CDs.

The biological diversity and sequence similarity between these cnidarian toxins and those of completely unrelated higher animals were astounding, suggesting that at least some universal molecular processes leading to toxin diversification might be shared between basal metazoans and diverging lineages of venomous animals.

Before their first gig, at Matt's high school prom, Fish astounds his band mates by ostentatiously vomiting in his hand, which he then sticks in his pocket.

More astounding is the notion that "troubled" high schools should develop "small learning communities".

CORRUPTION in high places surprises no one in India, but it astounds everyone when a high-ranking culprit is caught and punished.

The field has attracted high caliber scientists and engineers who are likely to continue to astound the world with innovative new inventions.

The lack of imagination most high schools have in terms of reaching their passions and interests often astounds me.

Astounding economic growth might have contributed to this result; however, TB incidence in South Korea remains the highest among high-income countries.