Sentence examples for the astounding thing from inspiring English sources

"The astounding thing was there was no overt leaderhip," said Dai Larner, a trustee of the Hebden Bridge Community Association.

"The astounding thing for me, and I did find it truly astounding, is that he actually pulls this off," Mr. Zanuck said.

WASHINGTON — The astounding thing about American slavery is not that it existed — the enslavement of one people by another may be one of history's universals — but that it persisted.

The astounding thing about the story of Bernard L. Madoff has been its singular crushing, blinding clarity — the scale of the fraud he is accused of, the worthy victims, that smirk in his eye.

The astounding thing is Loewy rendered a full-size Avanti in clay in less than 40 days, which even today is considered breathtaking speed.

The astounding thing is that when the victims were given the chance to exit this torture program, none of them did.

One of the astounding things about the rhetoric sweeping through statehouses across the United States is the notion that teachers, of all people, are overpaid and selfish.

The really astounding thing is the number of chips based on ARM designs that have shipped annually in 2001 compared to 2012: up to 8.7 billion in 2012 from only 420 million in 2001, with customers growing to 322 from 77 in that time.

"For me the sheer athleticism is the most astounding thing about what I'm seeing," he said.

But the really astounding thing is that the second vote only passed 237 to 178.

And they'd forgiven him, and that was the most astounding thing of all.