Sentence examples for like astonishing from inspiring English sources

The losses, coupled with what now seems like astonishing neglect on the part of the last Conservative government, had severe and well-documented effects on the region, although, in recent years, EU funding has brought new jobs and new regeneration-scheme landscapes.

It is hard to read about surgery over the centuries without flinching: the crudity of the tools, the lack of anaesthetic, and not least what seems like astonishing guts (metaphorically speaking) in carrying out techniques that nowadays seem indistinguishable from butchery.

But a critic's usual words, like "astonishing," "beautifully crafted" and "powerful," feel wrong here.

The book that I haven't started writing yet will be a book of such importance that people will use words like "astonishing" and "uncompromising" to describe it.

As you may have gleaned from his fantasy TV shows like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel," or his work on comic books like Astonishing X-Men, Buffy and Fray, the director and screenwriter Joss Whedon is a comic-book guy through and through.

"The Skriker" had its premiere performances at the Royal National Theater in London in 1994 and was produced at the Public Theater in New York two years later, winning comments like "astonishing," "spine-chilling" and "epic" from critics here and abroad.

The curators have brought together the work of art-world insiders like Mr. Nozkowski, Ms. Murray, Carroll Dunham, Joanne Greenbaum and Jeff Way with that of unschooled outsiders like the astonishing Chelo Amezcua, master of what she, with good reason, called "filigree art," and Ray Hamilton, whose self-portrait of his stockinged feet is a marvelous "I was here" gesture.

The rest is like an astonishing pre-Verne Around the World in Eighty Days.

It all sounds like remarkable, astonishing and marvellous doesn't it?

The 2009 crowning of "simples" seems, from this distance, mainly like an astonishing marketing triumph, and an odd reminder of a nation momentarily fascinated by animated meerkats.

I'm afraid I haven't been able to get back to hear the difference for myself, but it sounds like an astonishing turnaround.