Seven minutes long, it's an emotional epic – ridicule, disgust, comedy, shock, astonishment, joy, shame, hope, validation and triumph – they're all there, perfectly miniaturised and shrink-wrapped for an audience with a limited attention span.
When we hear of parents who have told their lesbian daughter that she is no longer welcome to come for Thanksgiving, of the transgender son whose mother refuses to acknowledge him as part of the family, or of the gay teen whose parents repeatedly remind him that he is headed for Hell, we experience a plethora of acute emotions: shock, astonishment, envy, confusion, anger, and sometimes even rage.
Voices stiffened with shock, with astonishment, with disbelief.
"There is a sense of extraordinary shock and astonishment, which is followed by a sense of rage, outrage and anger directed at the centers of finance".
Imagine my shock and astonishment when 10 minutes later, the same taxi appeared, with the same passenger, who, this time, jumped out and opened the door for me.
Often I would hold a business call with a vendor and later see the shock and astonishment register on their face that I meet them and they realize I am...black.
Dur Sharrukin is a former capital of the Assyrian empire in Nineveh that dates back to the 8th century BC. "The hand of terrorism insists upon erasing the history of humanity by erasing the heritage of the land of the two rivers amid the shock and astonishment of the world," the ministry said in a statement.
Meaning for all their "shock" and "astonishment" at finding out that corporate executives actually use their corporate jets to travel around (for instance) -- or their false outrage at a company buying naming rights to a stadium -- can be completely dismissed as "sound and fury, signifying nothing".
A shock of sexual astonishment which could make you feel astonishingly well and high spirited.
The size of the endowment losses in elite universities this year, both in percentage and dollar terms, has created some astonishment and shock that, in light of the gains these same endowments enjoyed over the past decade, is itself rather astonishing.
To the astonishment and shock of this rural backwater, babies, schoolchildren and even the 82-year-old abbot of the local Buddhist temple, who is celibate, have all tested HIV-positive.
