Sentence examples for mildly astonishing from inspiring English sources
In other ways, it's mildly astonishing.
It would be mildly astonishing if they made it three in a row.
Even so, he surely endured a very taxing race in Liverpool – notwithstanding the fact that he jumped the last like a horse ready for another circuit – and it would be mildly astonishing if he could back up the form today.
In an interview with the West Indian novelist Caryl Phillips, in 1992, Walcott recalled seeing a book by a Caribbean writer for the first time: It was mildly astonishing holding [it] and thinking, "My God, this is a book".
There are plenty of mildly astonishing facts – I didn't know that Paul Griffin, who added inscrutable but essential piano parts to Dionne Warwick's "Walk On By" and Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", was the man who stopped Don McLean's "American Pie" from collapsing under the weight of its riddle-me-this conceits with his bar‑room piano accompaniment.
To say that I was startled would be putting it mildly; it was simply astonishing news.
Mildly unenthusiastically.
They were just astonishing.
