Sentence examples for human astonishment from inspiring English sources
That one can be flossing one's teeth or feeding the cat when tragedy strikes and history spins sideways is a perennial human astonishment, but a couple of examples make the point, and surely these writers know that there are thousands.
His portrait of a debauched society is satiric without being censuring, and he lets the characters register a healthy human astonishment at the play's greater improbabilities (including one of those wearisome "bed tricks").
A surprising tenderness pressed against my heart with such strength, it seemed very nearly like joy; and with unexpected sharpness I became alert not to the meaning, but the astonishment of human existence".
The book was called "about as agreeable as a dose of ipecac," in a review in The New York Times, for generating "a sense of astonishment that human intelligence could have permitted us to reach this predicament".
Time and again, the alienated gaze of his films confronts us with the astonishment of the human face, there in his use of closeups that come in too close.
"Because it is completely different from other diseases, it has been regarded as a divine visitation by those who, being only human, view it with ignorance and astonishment".
The key to being a television human is perfecting the art of fabricated astonishment, dismay, confusion.
The psalmist shows astonishment at the power of humans, which he characterizes as little less than the celestial creatures: Why should God have elevated such lowly creatures to such heights of power?
To my astonishment, I am clearly holding a human bone.
His super special mostessness, astonishment of men and angels, lesser human beings, too; Blotus the incredible, the terrible, unstoppable!
Encountering the depths of the worst human life holds can then lead to the astonishment of Easter, the 'nevertheless' of triumph, the central liturgical moment of the Christian year.
