Sentence examples for sometimes astonishingly from inspiring English sources

A few assailants were charged with adultery, and sometimes, astonishingly, the victims were too.

His five dancers are recognizable individuals as well as lithe and sometimes astonishingly agile movers.

And it may indeed lead to "benefits to the economy, society, public policy, culture and quality of life" – sometimes astonishingly so.

A gang of young Gypsy men slinking on the street, "cigarettes dripping from downy lips," wins a burst of global allusions: "They are often heartbreakingly beautiful, these boys, sometimes astonishingly debauched-looking, in a manner recalling Caravaggio ephebes, Pasolini's ragazzi di vita, and they dress in a bygone style of gangster dandyism".

The report, by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, describes some progress but also an array of projects that have gone awry, sometimes astonishingly, like electrical substations that were built at great cost but never connected to the country's electrical grid.

** A gang of young Gypsy men slinking on the street, "cigarettes dripping from downy lips," wins a burst of global allusions: "They are often heartbreakingly beautiful, these boys, sometimes astonishingly debauched-looking, in a manner recalling Caravaggio ephebes, Pasolini's ragazzi di vita, and they dress in a bygone style of gangster dandyism".

Slow, elliptical and discursive, it conforms to the old art-house stereotype; yet it is also novel, compelling and sometimes quite astonishingly moving.

Moreover, the political result was almost invariably the same: the slaves exploited the military power vested in them to seize control over the legitimate political authorities, often only briefly but sometimes for astonishingly long periods of time.

Occasionally, Stevenson's research feels wedged into the narrative too self-consciously ("But remember, the fine for hiring a coach on Sunday is 10 shilling a head"), and her characters can sometimes seem astonishingly astute in their command of their country's recent history.

But his performances, though astonishingly brilliant, sometimes sound overrehearsed, painstakingly precise, lacking in spontaneity.

But each one astonishingly different; sometimes the church looks brooding, ancient, gray-brown, cavernous, almost collapsing on itself.