Sentence examples for of astonishing scope from inspiring English sources

Francis was impeccably educated formally at Horace Mann Prep School followed by Columbia College, but was an autodidact of astonishing scope.

The Periphyseon, deeply influenced by Eriugena's engagement with Greek Christian authors, is a work of astonishing scope, a veritable Neoplatonic summa.

And yet the astonishing scope of its imagination and ambition as an exercise in refraction — of the self, of family, of history, of desire — renders it unlike anything else.

The question remains whether, once the astonishing scope of the spy machine is comprehended, those fetters begin to seem somewhat decorative – and if so, what we can do about it.

"From the strongest of shortlists, they selected Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe as a work of astonishing originality, depth and scope," he said, praising her "luminous" work.

"No set of images can sum up a body of work so astonishing in scope, complexity, and vigour – its memorable scenes come to life with seeming effortlessness, fully realised in the immortal lines and between them," he wrote.

"It is a novel of astonishing control".

Chamberlain was a man of astonishing figures.

Other criticism was of astonishing naivety.

"I find her kind of astonishing".

It's a sequence of astonishing power.