Sentence examples for much astonishing from inspiring English sources

It was David Dinkins' good fortune that any rocky moments he encountered during his first months--& there have been some--happened in a season when so much astonishing news was pouring in from other parts of the world that even the most ernestly civic-minded of his constituents had scant time to keep up with municipal developments.

By Andy Logan The New Yorker, March 12 , 1990P. 91 It was David Dinkins' good fortune that any rocky moments he encountered during his first months--& there have been some--happened in a season when so much astonishing news was pouring in from other parts of the world that even the most ernestly civic-minded of his constituents had scant time to keep up with municipal developments.

So it is that in selecting only those images that struck a chord with the judges, we know that much astonishing variety has had to be discarded.

How much more astonishing, then, is what Microsoft has accomplished.

That made his time of 9.69 — three-hundredths of a second better than the previous world record — that much more astonishing, because it could have been so much lower.

Swartz had long lived with depression and a host of physical ailments, which made his accomplishments that much more astonishing.

"For my part," he told Wagner, "I belonged to my time": an admission proved as much by the astonishing end of his career as by his astonishing music.

The whoosh of time passing was not so much relentless as astonishing.

American consumers have lost much of their astonishing appetite for goods ranging from clothes to iPods to computers.

We learn much about the (astonishing) development of social security under Weimar, about seething anti-Semitism and diplomatic blunders.

Page and Jones pretty much tie for astonishing pre-Zep employment, thanks to their ubiquity on the session scene in the 1960s.