Sentence examples for mere astonishment from inspiring English sources

There is a long, long way to go but all parts of the system need to be addressed if we are going to get past the stage of mere astonishment.

Word of Thomas's first signature deal (accommodatingly timed, to my astonishment, mere hours after I wrote Sunday night that New York was eagerly awaiting a blockbuster move) had already reached Daly, who gave it his endorsement.

Simply pull the small rectangular device out of your pocket midway through an episode of Call the Midwife or a dinner party or a wedding or something, intending to glance at it for mere seconds, then gasp in astonishment as you look up apparently moments later to discover an hour's flown by and you haven't heard or seen anything that's happened in your immediate vicinity in that time.

Yet there's a climactic touch: a takeoff on the visionary mega-gravitational deformations of "2001," which, though much briefer than Kubrick's sequence, delivers an astonishment that's no mere parody but a worthy successor.

Yet the appetite that appeared to drive, at times even define her, exceeded mere food to include everything, and her consumption of men, booze, jewels and celebrity itself was an astonishment.

In the era before recording, the wonder of music was the wonder of performance, and the mere fact of the realization of a great score by a musician capable of doing so was a sufficient astonishment — the ordinary performance was automatically extraordinary.

"Total astonishment.

Milosevic feigned astonishment: "Me?

Astonishment dried her tears.

The boy registered astonishment.

He turned around in astonishment.