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astonishing
«Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural»
«The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.»
«The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| About:
Diversity,
Earth
| Keywords:
accountable, astonishing, bolt, bolt of lightning, cell, cooled, derived, fertilize, fertilized, fertilizes, fertilizing, originally, probability
«It has always seemed to me that in dealing with foreign countries we do not give ourselves a chance of success unless we try to understand their mentality, which is not always the same as our own, and it really is astonishing to contemplate how the i»
«An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art form. an astonishing development for what until recently had been considered manna for aesthetes only, the quiche of the performing arts.»
Author: Shana Alexander
(Editor, Host, Journalist, Teacher)
| Keywords:
aesthete, aesthetes, American art, astonishing, evolved, performing, performing arts, recently
«By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Ability,
Success
| Keywords:
astonishing, cope, demonstrating, inability, pull together
«It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so.»
«It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.»
«It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.»
Author: Yiddish Proverb
| Keywords:
astonishing