Sentence examples for less astonished from inspiring English sources

Thus revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said, that its "beauty is immense," man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh, and be less astonished at particular wonders; he will learn that there is no profane history; that all history is sacred.

Our dread builds, but we are no less astonished when he starts to choke and writhe.

The first group, no less astonished, came up to us before they left the bar and, amid much laughter, we wondered how many more of us were lurking around the city's corners.

Reached on Friday in Miami Beach, where he was on vacation, Mr. Monette said he had hoped the new system would work but seemed less than astonished at how it all played out.

People in the audience were often astonished, less by the sound of the music than by the ambition of the orchestra: Congolese performing in a difficult, exclusive genre.

Albee's plays were doing less and less well: "I was astonished," says Page, "when The Lady from Dubuque [1980], which I thought was a fantastic play, was swept away and replaced by this play called Children of a Lesser God, a very sentimental play about deaf people - fine, heart in the right place - but nothing like the quality of Albee's play".

The meteoric trajectory of Isadora Duncan, the American free spirit who more or less invented modern dance; astonished audiences throughout the first quarter of the 20th century; and lost two children in a strange automobile accident, then her own life in an even stranger one.

The left panel shows the noisy FBP reconstruction and can be compared with the less noisy Astonish reconstruction in the middle panel.

Now the turbulent world has come to Holland at last, crashing into an idyll that astonished the citizens of less favored nations.

But their being unaware of a top-tier establishment less than an hour's drive away astonished me.

He said he was astonished, having kept a close eye on costs and knowing he had spent less than £8,000.