I recall the intense joy (and astonishment) that filled me when over 20 volunteers visited my classroom to help my students with the writing process.
Lawmakers were hearing "amazement, astonishment and intense anger" from their constituents, he said.
And I count on getting back the feeling — the intense mix of love, hatred, anxiety, astonishment, and gratification — because life, public life, is impoverished without it.
I was drawn there this time around by astonishment that it was still open and intense curiosity about what it had become, about the temperature of a paradigmatic hot spot once the sun had stopped shining on it.
I take a bite and, to my astonishment, get a hit of lemongrass, only more intense, like the essence of lemongrass.
These last words, from an intense and deeply affecting new documentary play called "The Exonerated," are uttered in a quiet voice that mixes resignation with enduring astonishment.
Milosevic feigned astonishment: "Me?
Astonishment dried her tears.
The boy registered astonishment.
He turned around in astonishment.
