For every blockbuster name there's an unfamiliar astonishment, like the ink-and-watercolor menagerie by the Netherlandish painter Jacques de Gheyn II, from 1596-1602, which splices together exquisite realism and outlandish fantasy, as a toad, a frog, and a dragonfly share the page with a mutant bird-moth.
It is not settled.Matt Ridley NewcastleRussia and NATOSIR – I would like to express my utter astonishment at Charlemagne's groundless assertion, attributed to a diplomat, that "the entire Russian mission" at NATO headquarters "is staffed by spies" (November 21st).
"Do you like Dubai?" And to my own astonishment, without hesitating, I answered, "Yes".
To my astonishment, Simon said, "I like you" and they put her through.
It is like an expression of astonishment.
We all know what new love feels like (the euphoria! the astonishment! the sex!), but here are a few ways to spot the other kind of relationship -- the one that never grows old.
Undaunted, Mr. Dorrinson said he had begun looking into additional countries, like Chad and North Korea, but he expressed astonishment at a world seemingly overrun by health care.
I looked back the other day at the talk I gave then, expecting to it to sound like prehistory, and to my astonishment it was something I could have read today, particularly to a gathering devoted to Image and Imagination.
To his astonishment, nearly a million people liked his Facebook page and tens of thousands followed him on Twitter.
