Sentence examples for thought it extraordinary from inspiring English sources

I read the proof and thought it extraordinary: surprising, dazzling, affecting and upsetting.

He also thought it "extraordinary that Rembrandt should have taken so much pains" on the "Susanna" in the Mauritshuis in The Hague "and have made at last so very ugly and ill-favoured a figure".

A number of diplomats involved in Afghan and Pakistani affairs say they thought it extraordinary that neither Adam Thomson, the British high commissioner to Pakistan, nor Richard Stagg, the ambassador to Afghanistan, were present.

"But she probably would've thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing-to the United States Congress!

"I thought it was extraordinary.

JG : Oh, I thought it was extraordinary.

The first time I went to the East End I thought it was extraordinary.

Coming out of the dress rehearsal I thought it was extraordinary.

"I thought it was extraordinary to say nothing about it," said Tony Leon, leader of the Democratic Alliance, the main opposition party.

Knightley says: "Stuart was wearing plus-fours and I thought it an extraordinary thing that someone had the balls... ...... Nevertheless, they went out for a meal, along with Knightley's partner, Rupert Friend, and Pike.

"Death squads and civilian casualties and underarmed soldiers and strategic mishaps and the brutalisation of soldiers and the terrorising of civilians: the worst fears we had about that war just came flooding through, and I thought it was extraordinary".