Sentence examples for to astonishing effect from inspiring English sources

Mugging away as if pulling faces is about to be banned under an EU directive, he rather overplays the lovable English eccentric card, but he unexpectedly decorates Parasite with effects-drenched, feedback-laden psychedelic guitar to astonishing effect.

The staging might look excessive on paper, but onstage it works to astonishing effect, bolstering rather than overwhelming the emotional impact of the songs.

In an age before special effects, the director had only one crack at this scene, and he shot it simultaneously with several cameras to astonishing effect.

The splendour is added to by the extraordinary Ossian Hall – a Georgian folly overlooking the Black Linn waterfall over the river Braan, which uses mirrors and sliding panels to astonishing effect.

But he led forces that were innovators in warfare, with tanks, creeping barrages and, from August 1918, the beginning of the tactics later known as Blitzkrieg and employed to astonishing effect by Hitler until 1941.

"Stories We Tell," a remarkable movie by the Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley, blends factual inquiry and something else — not quite fiction, but also not really documentary — to astonishing effect.

Deployed to such astonishing effect, be it chatty or percussive, within his songs, ("I know when to go out, / And when to stay in," he reveals, in a low confiding murmur, at the kickoff of "Modern Love"), it was curiously floated and flattened by motion pictures.

By the late 80s, however, they had hit a rich vein of form, blending sci-fi-themed lyrics with influences from psychedelia, prog-rock and punk to often astonishing effect on albums such as Dimension Hatröss and Nothingface.

On some occasions there have been upwards of 19,000 persons in them, and this immense concourse, most of whom are well dressed, seen in connection with the illuminated walks, add not a little to the brilliant and astonishing effect of the whole scene.

A more astonishing effect occurs if the magnetic field is applied in the same way to the same type of sample at a temperature above the transition temperature and is then held at a fixed value while the sample is cooled.

"He has an astonishing effect on people.