Sentence examples for made it astonishing from inspiring English sources

What made it astonishing were the goddamn tunes on the thing.

What made it astonishing is that Mr. Pavarotti rightly expected that his audience knew the Italian words and where the rests were, and that he could insert some semblance of taste by announcing: "I am conducting you.

But what truly makes it astonishing are the numbers.

What makes it astonishing for a first book in a second language is the immediate, natural tone.

Foster says: "It is one of those books you keep on giving to people". What makes it astonishing for a first book in a second language is the immediate, natural tone.

We exude them at an almost bewildering pace, making it astonishing that so many filmmakers seem to have trouble coming up with them (they buy other people's novels and memoirs and remake films from overseas and from the past).

What makes it astonishing is the object of their attention: a fringe Iranian opposition group, long an ally of Saddam Hussein, that is designated as a terrorist organization under United States law and described by State Department officials as a repressive cult despised by most Iranians and Iraqis.

It was on the eve of being forced out that the FARC made its astonishing concession.

All of this made it an astonishing, terrible and wicked tragedy, a barbaric murder of innocent people.

This made it all the more astonishing when, last month, she was tapped to run the beleaguered California Department of Corrections by the state's Republican, tough-on-crime, tough-on-criminals governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Which makes it rather astonishing that Charles Jessold, Considered As a Murderer, his third novel, is set in a classical-music milieu.