He stops himself, astonished by the insight.
Passers-by simply stop -- amused, astonished, perplexed, engaged.
Alexa Chung may have been there to mostly talk about fashion, but that didn't stop people from being astonished at how little she knew about the Oscars.
Until I asked her to please stop doing it and was astonished to find that she not only could but, from the moment I asked her, in fact would stop doing it, my mother, all through my childhood, when I was saying something to her, something important, would move her lips as I was speaking so that she seemed to be saying, under her breath, the very words I was saying as I was saying them.
Visitors who stopped by, knowing Whitman's reputation, were often astonished that he didn't live someplace grander, but in his head, at least, Whitman bestrode the world.
Both politicians looked on astonished as presenter Andrew Marr tried to stop her.
Within weeks these local movers and shakers were actively lobbying astonished but wary federal officials, and they have never stopped.
And so when the guns suddenly stopped, when the roar of exploding bombs could be heard no more, when suddenly there was silence, I was astonished.
I'm astonished to learn that around 60% of the company's output went to Russia before the trade embargo stopped them exporting.
He was astonished at being described in these columns earlier this week as a player on the slide and and could hardly stop laughing.
