Sentence examples for register amazement from inspiring English sources
His task is not so much to insult his fellow Jews, or the African-American community, as to register amazement at a culture that turns race relations into an article of faith — that seems to believe, against the run of history, in legislating our lower, more brutish instincts out of existence.
Immersed in factual nuance, exacting about sequence and presentation, the historian never steps to the side in his work to register amazement at circumstance, never says, "Look!" For this we have the other arts, fiction front and center, though it doesn't quite do for the novelist to make such a bald declaration either.
In a deliciously scathing review, Alan Scherstuhl of the Village Voice suggests that people who hear about the film's mere existence will register amazement that it's "a real movie that actually played in American theaters"; Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times promises that Collateral Beauty is "just bad enough that you actually wish it was worse".
Manuel Lozano, who plays Moncho, has a wide-eyed, slightly pouty face that registers amazement, bafflement and an almost scholarly intellectual appetite.
He sent a cartoon of them in the sea watched by a fish "registering amazement at what it sees", and adding "O how I want to go to Brighton with you!!" Leigh, whose physical and mental health were often fragile, won her second Oscar for her epic performance in 1939 as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind – a role she won over almost all the leading actresses of the day who were avid for the part.
Registering my amazement, his face falls.
Helen Goodman, the Labour MP for Bishop Auckland and chair of the National Union of Journalists' parliamentary group, has written to Rudd registering her amazement at what has happened.
The famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546 1601) left a report of an encounter he had with Ramus in Augsburg in 1569, registering his own amazement at this attitude.
"Above all," he writes of Bach in Leipzig, "he is destined to be chronically overworked, a man whose productivity we register only with disbelief and amazement".
I continually register my own McGurk-like amazement that Newsquest/Gannett continues to publish print copies of the Brighton Argus when its daily sale is little more than 13,000.
When buying some Calpol in a large pharmacy chain, the poster said she had discovered, to her "amazement" that "if you register your details under the 'minor ailments scheme', all medicines etc for children are free".
