Sentence examples for playing astonishingly from inspiring English sources

But he was deep in the music, singing rhythmically and playing astonishingly good keyboards: unprepossessing solos, swinging, nasty and percussive, a cross between Count Basie and Ray Charles.

Ms. Gyllenhaal, 31, who was last seen on screen in the summer blockbuster "The Dark Knight" (playing a role she inherited from Ms. Holmes), has her own tradition of playing astonishingly raw and unglamorous characters, in films like "Sherrybaby" and "Secretary" and plays like Tony Kushner's "Homebody/Kabul".

This is why Tehran is worried, and this is why Iran's leadership is playing astonishingly inconsistent hands.

A few thumbstrokes later, the tiny computer was playing astonishingly clear and vibrant footage of the nanny and her scruffy middle-aged guest.

In the summer of 2013, a YouTube video appeared showing a trio of 11- and 12-year-old boys playing astonishingly polished metal in Times Square.

They use a fifth-set tiebreaker in New York, but though Wawrinka pushed and pushed some more — playing astonishingly bold and convincing tennis for big stretches of this memorable duel — he could not quite summon the energy or inspiration to extend Djokovic to the limit.

She played astonishingly clean tennis while extending the rallies to expose Karolina Pliskova's average movement, winning 24 of the last 34 points and broke Pliskova twice to seal a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 victory for her second grand slam title of the year after her Australian Open breakthrough.

There is a 'house nigger' loyal to Candie played, astonishingly, by Samuel L, Jackson.

One of Mr. McPherson's first improvised masterpieces came at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1964, when he played an astonishingly inventive improvisation on Mingus's "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk".

It's one of the few instances when Mr. Chan isn't playing the reluctant yet astonishingly flexible coward who is forced to fight, a combination of Stan Laurel and Harold Lloyd.

Hoffman brilliantly and astonishingly plays Dodd as Charles Foster Kane; his channelling of Orson Welles's performance is as eerie as it is exhilarating.