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"astonished" Definitions
  1. very surprised

881 Sentences With "astonished"

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She writes that she's astonished whenever someone else is astonished to discover she's human.
One, I'm astonished, I've been astonished for a couple years, watching all of these publishers spend a lot of time and energy creating literally the same video, right?
Speaking of which: I was astonished to see Kimmy again!
"I am astonished and appalled because I feel misled," Sen.
And I'm sure they were as astonished as we were.
"I was astonished at the ferocity of attack," he said.
The segment concluded, and the producers erupted in astonished giggles.
Major champions Curtis Strange and Paul Azinger were equally astonished.
I put it on Twitter because I was so astonished.
Analyses of the cases' interiors, however, sometimes astonished the curators.
"The Warmth of Other Suns," by Isabel Wilkerson, astonished me.
But every single one of them seems astonished with themselves.
My young friends look astonished: Why not just Google it?
I think people were pretty astonished we'd carried it off.
"Ai yu, did you see that?" asked my mother, astonished.
Ocampo and Finch said they were astonished to receive so much.
Perla was astonished to realize the kids were already learning English.
"It's almost surreal," Alejandro said, still astonished that it all happened.
Someone will wonder why I don't have one, and seem astonished.
Mohammed's dizzying rise since his father became king has astonished Saudis.
" Poetzscher was troubled; Nina Qi was quiet, but "amused and astonished.
Prepare to be astonished, then: Popular is in pretty decent shape.
I'm astonished by how good we were, listening to this record.
Facebook and Alphabet totally astonished investors in their conference calls, too.
"I am astonished and appalled because I feel misled," said Blumenthal.
She was astonished to learn about their daily hardships and humiliations.
"When I saw that picture, I was truly astonished," Parson recalls.
I'm astonished at how low the vocals are on some tracks.
"We were astonished, appalled and also saddened," a health official said.
"I'm just so astonished because it's not so hard," he said.
But on the subject at hand they were united — and astonished.
Outside, chaos broke out before the eyes of an astonished public.
"Apparently he's been training for six weeks," someone told me, astonished.
But most cheered Libecki on, astonished at his grit and determination.
Weren't you astonished how few people know how good things are?
I am indeed very astonished that we discuss this at all.
" He adds: "Amberley's story, it is one that I am astonished by.
Webb astonished no one on Thursday when he did rule it out.
As the astonished Capone left the courthouse he said, 'This is preposterous.
Mr Morris is so astonished he moves on to the next point.
I'm always astonished when my daughters go on vacation with their girlfriends.
When news of Bannon's firing broke, reactions ranged from astonished to joyful.
I am astonished by what I'm about to write: I keep laughing.
The ingenuity of Prepa's line workers astonished their colleagues from the mainland.
Roger was "astonished," according to the 3rd Circuit, and confronted the assistant.
Republican officials, on the other hand, were astonished by the Trump effect.
I am often legitimately astonished by what speedrunners can accomplish in games.
"When we finally met in person, I was astonished," Mr. McCoy said.
But Green also said he's astonished the race is so close there.
I am astonished that I have been attacked by the Saints organization.
"When we arrived at the site, we were astonished," said Dr. Charloux.
We're sort of astonished by the numbers, but not by their ambition.
This astonished me—a university on vacation more than half the year.
He was astonished by the degree of innovation that he was hearing.
They repaired to a hotel, where J. astonished Elizabeth by proposing marriage.
It's long astonished and distressed me that a land with so much
Warren seemed almost astonished that Buttigieg had the temerity to hit back.
The suddenness with which the world's code could be rewritten astonished him.
The recent flight of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy has astonished the world.
When Dr. Prieto followed the man to the site, he was astonished.
Ahmed said she was "astonished" by Trump's comments about a possible Muslim ban.
"I'm a huge fan of Liverpool, so I was super astonished," he said.
The President's decision to cancel the trip left Danish officials a little astonished.
I've been astonished at how early my daughter grasped these big ideas. 6.
Ridgway's wife—his third—was astonished to find out what he had done.
I was astonished by the international media attention I've received since the rally.
Fusco, astonished, opened a window, and started taking pictures of the people looking.
Bran is astonished when he sees the confrontation at the Tower of Joy.
"At first the police were astonished," recalled Mr. Karakoc, who accompanied his mother.
Ismail Kadare's readers are astonished every year when the Nobel committee overlooks him.
In the late 1960s when the crates were finally opened, the paintings astonished.
I fooled the adults, who were astonished because they thought I could read.
Next to me, a group of Chinese people from Munich take photos, astonished.
Karim told Hyperallergic: Tania's generosity astonished us — she just took action straight away.
The first time it happened, I was astonished that someone could read me.
On his flight from Los Angeles, he'd been astonished that the four Wall Street guys around him were watching Fox News on their seatbacks as they yammered about a deal—astonished, that is, that business class was filled with businessmen.
"Honestly, I'm still astonished that there are even frogs found in amber!" he said.
The EU by contrast found a unity of purpose that astonished its own leaders.
" Carroll continues, "I am astonished by what I'm about to write: I keep laughing.
When the psychologist casually remarked how much time had passed, the man was astonished.
"One of the platforms interprets astonished face with Xs for eyes," he told me.
"I was astonished," del Valle, 25, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
TRAVOLTA When you witness even the amount we were allowed to, you'll be astonished.
Her results astonished the doctors, who had said her spine had suffered permanent damage.
It was a surprise hit that astonished everyone, including Mai and her producer Mustard.
At one time, discovering the magical capabilities of our devices astonished and invigorated us.
I was astonished that you went so deep into my retweets, but go ahead.
Visitors streamed in from around the globe, astonished that Korea looked so, well, modern.
I was astonished at how this anarcho-­capitalist community was going to cannibalize themselves.
The rising arc of power and accuracy was so steep that it astonished him.
"You would be astonished at how many of the words Vale knows," she reveals.
" Cave of books Elbaum says he was initially astonished by AlMaaytah's "cave of books.
In the case of EverQuest Next, we accomplished incredible feats that astonished industry insiders.
Instead, Porzingis has astonished the NBA universe with his production and highlight-reel plays.
I was astonished when her building's elevator opened directly into the apartment's front hall.
"How did they even let you in?" an astonished colleague asked Mr. Hassanein, 20.
I suspect that those people were quite astonished when the pay didn't come through.
Mr. Torres recalled being astonished by Mr. Reid's imposing size when he met him.
She was astonished, but accepted that she was not actually intolerant to the drug.
I will never not be astonished at the joy my name has brought me.
Did I cry in front of a gaggle of our appalled and astonished friends?
In the old days, the two were astonished by all they had in common.
She was astonished by the volume of response: More than 100 men showed interest.
Romans, conditioned by centuries of seen-it-all cynicism, sometimes even find themselves astonished.
Viewers were astonished and delighted, especially by some of her uninhibited expressions of rapture.
Still, Mr. Zhang said he was astonished by the swiftness of the sentencing Monday.
I am also surprised at the fact that other students are astonished at this.
Ms. Albrecht said she was astonished by the number of students who took part.
But even she has been astonished by the swift trajectory of her acting career.
As the meeting wore on, she only became more astonished — and so did we.
The Stantons grabbed clothes and shoes, wetted cloths to hold against their astonished faces.
But as I continued reading, I was astonished to discover that Arthur redeemed himself.
When friends come over, she says they're astonished when they see her DVD player.
"People just seem so excited and astonished that we're even doing this," Christianson said.
GLASS Quite the opposite: I'm astonished at the size of audiences I'm getting now.
I was genuinely being astonished, being in these places, feeling these feelings for real.
Libby Nelson: One thing that astonished me is how common hijacking used to be.
I looked at Doi's drawings and was astonished by the obsessive intensity of his work.
Today, Ms. León remains a bit astonished by the trajectory of her life and career.
Her son, she said, was mostly astonished by how much "stuff" his parents had kept.
The size and distinctive shape of an eight-foot femur of one specimen astonished scientists.
The me of 10 years ago would be astonished by the me of the present.
When he decided to visit these new friends later, his friends in Berlin were astonished.
"I am truly astonished at how this video has spread throughout the Internet," Naydev added.
" Conway added she is "astonished" that Stein is now the "favorite flavor of the left.
Take the time to be astonished, but consider taking the time to be curious, too.
I'm a little astonished by how he tends to get depicted in the media, though.
It's nice, but by this point I'm just astonished that the episode isn't over yet.
" His answer astonished me as he said, "There were no Saudis involved in the attacks.
But suffice to say, both host Alisyn Camerota and fellow guest Symone Sanders were astonished.
A union source close to VW's supervisory board said he was "astonished" by Mueller's remarks.
"I was astonished by the breadth of response to our protests," she said from Poland.
We were astonished to be told she wasn't familiar enough for The Times's crossword audience.
People in the business, she added, were astonished by what was going on the block.
I just wanted to live, and he was, like, astonished, that I wanted to live.
I don't think I'm astonished, but I'm pleasantly surprised at how fast he's come along.
Back on shore, upon reviewing the footage, Mr. Fanning was astonished at the shark's size.
She was astonished when I told her of Skalnik's long run as a state witness.
All three men remember being astonished by the quick changes that came about in China.
Mohammad Yunus, 26, whose family fled to Bangladesh in 1992, is astonished by the change.
"The D.N.C. thinks it's better to keep people ignorant," Robyn Sumners told me, angry, astonished.
" Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: "We are astonished by this filing, both its content and its timing.
"A man in a high-jewelry necklace is a first," said an astonished Mr. Scognamiglio.
I stare at the fleshy carcass, astonished, and accept the expensive gift in acute embarrassment.
At a time of flux and malaise, the lurid tale of aristocratic impunity astonished the country.
I think I cried a couple tears, and I was just astonished by what was happening.
YOU don't have to be Brazilian to have been astonished by the events of recent days.
That was how astonished financial markets reacted to the British vote to leave the European Union.
"Everyone was astonished to see what was going on," said Tommy Nunez, a referee that night.
The crowd is astonished: a familiar thing has been seen in a secret state of being.
The young man helped lead a procession away from the astonished congregation and onto the street.
Janu announced gleefully to her astonished husband one recent evening when he arrived home from work.
I would be astonished that anybody seeking to be commander in chief wouldn't want this power.
Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom, the Olympic 100m butterfly champion who took the bronze in 52.99, was astonished.
What always astonished me, however, was how he saw his relationship with vinyl as completely mild.
You might be astonished by quickly how residents can come together when threatened with noise pollution.
I'm astonished that some girls are able to keep working considering the bad feedback they have.
Green: Look, here on planet Earth we're all rightly astonished that Bannon holds (held?) presidential ambitions.
Perhaps it's worth unpacking this admission for those who might be equally astonished to read it.
Not the Reverend, who astonished his co-workers with how quickly and beautifully he cleaned up.
I was astonished by how dark it is and how many references to death there are.
I remember being astonished the first time we saw segregated smoking lounges at Tokyo's Narita Airport.
It's Lear's astonished, self-lacerating recognition of what he calls "unaccommodated man" as a universal condition.
When I opened my clenched fist, I was astonished to see all three in my palm.
They set a goal of $1,500 and were astonished to bring in more than $19 million.
Yet I am astonished that even a gravely ill newborn baby didn't elicit a different response.
Photos also show onlookers down in the street, astonished eyes reflecting the horror of the scene.
" This is a movie, he wrote, "that defies understanding even as it compels reverent, astonished belief.
What astonished, flearing, and confused mumps and mows doth this dotage stir up in our visages!
"No one had ever referred to me as Mr. Baker before," he said, still sounding astonished.
What astonished him, as the Civil War raged, was how blind Americans were to its origins.
To be properly (kill the father!) astonished or astonishable happens more in plays than in life.
FCA SAYS IN STATEMENT IT IS 'ASTONISHED BY THIS FILING, BOTH ITS CONTENT AND ITS TIMING'
I'm always astonished by how few people know Katherine Anne Porter, in the U.K. at least.
Doctors were astonished to find that she experienced no pain despite severe degeneration in her joint.
When he autopsied the mice, he was astonished to find atrophied muscles, brittle bones and atherosclerosis.
"I would be astonished if we can't have this up and running within two years," Hodgson said.
Interested but skeptical, he consumed it in a safe and supervised setting, and what happened astonished him.
"LOOK at the lanes!" exclaimed an astonished bystander from a bridge above one of Dhaka's main roads.
"He reacted pretty much the way I thought he would," Angel says of her husband's astonished response.
THERE is some danger these days of failing to be astonished by images delivered from space probes.
The team's findings astonished Harrington, and led to a breakthrough in the study of sound and entomology.
Wanda showed me his room, where I was astonished to see a menorah next to his bed.
I just saw it go up, and I was astonished that it didn't come back down again.
It's the Danny who, in crisis, makes pasta puttanesca for the whole astonished Paradime staff who's vivid.
"I am astonished by what I'm about to write: I keep laughing," Carroll wrote in the book.
Lyrebirds have often astonished researchers with their incredible ability to mimic chainsaws, cameras, and other unnatural sounds.
You would probably be astonished at how many eventually-famous writers were among my colleagues at Nightstand.
Attendees were astonished when she mentioned that our solar system was across the galaxy when dinosaurs roamed.
In Sunday's statement, the Foreign Ministry said it was "astonished at the allegations" contained in the report.
"I was astonished by the experience of standing there, where the two oceans met," he later remembered.
Mr. Kamm said he was astonished by the speed and severity of the sentence against Mr. Schellenberg.
One particular scene showing Colleen Wing's (Jessica Henwick) fighting skills astonished fans and the cheers were deafening.
"We were quite, let's say, astonished by this finding itself because that's very unique," said Dr. Musilová.
The decision astonished his friends and colleagues at the paper, among them Jimmy Breslin and Tom Wolfe.
I was astonished to be able to learn and play in my home country for the summer.
Norris told CNN Business he's "astonished" by how quickly Iran has vanished from the financial news headlines.
The speed with which Xylella has taken hold in Puglia has astonished scientists as much as farmers.
Many parents are astonished to realize that they may never see a transcript of their child's grades.
Her prose is a respite, an opportunity to be still and known and astonished all at once.
He astonished his rivals by winning support for the European Union, against all odds, at his rallies.
For me, having litigated it for the last six years, I was astonished every time we lost.
I was astonished at the amount of beer you could try and the variety was so great.
Broadcom had asked for an earlier meeting, which Tan said he was "astonished" Qualcomm would not accommodate.
The astonished and bewildered team behind Moonlight slowly took to the stage, their jaws on the floor.
"I am astonished by the love-in-action displayed by Henry's mom and his brothers," Delaney added.
Her prose is a respite, an opportunity to be still and known and astonished all at once.
He is still astonished, he added, that Philip Johnson agreed to design the three-story 34th Street space.
He has done lots of drugs — some of which he became addicted to and others that "astonished" him.
Wth Thea's permission, T. told me about their conversation, and I was astonished by a lot of it.
Also along for the ride was Kardashian's baby sister, Khloe, who was astonished at how similar everything looked.
At the Bitkovs' first court date, they say they were astonished to see VTB's representatives in the courtroom.
The orchestra, collectively astonished, agreed on two conditions: that no tickets be sold and no reviews be published.
Salman said: "I am astonished about my friend's comments which are wholly dismissed and entirely inaccurate," he said.
Now FetLife has astonished its members by deleting huge swathes of content, seemingly overnight and without prior consultation.
When I realized how much I was paying for packages I'd just end up tossing, I was astonished.
When I look into the sky, I'm astonished to see swarms of massive, flying, dragon-like worm creatures.
When the physical therapist, whose visits had become few and far between, saw the garden, he was astonished.
Echoing Shacknai's comments after the verdict, his attorney, Dan Webb, said he was "absolutely astonished" at the decision.
With the sun setting over the Sicilian hills, I was astonished to have the terrace entirely to myself.
Kenneth M. Duberstein, who was briefly Reagan's chief of staff, said he was astonished by the judge's ruling.
"She was constantly astonished that the rest of the world had such confidence in her," Hytner told me.
Many people would be astonished to find great values on this list, and not just in expensive bottles.
At Middlesex and at Stanford, I have been astonished by what I can generously describe as innocent unawareness.
When she finally spotted the golden toads, she was so astonished that she forgot how miserable she felt.
During our conversations, he recalled feeling astonished during a visit to England shortly before the vote on Brexit.
Was he the one I nodded to in the tacit exchange of two astonished and impressed young men?
Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, appeared genuinely astonished during a national security conference in Aspen, Colo.
He seemed startled that such pain had found him, astonished that he had been hurt in that way.
You could see that an astonished Jackson was thinking: What else do we have to do to win?
I was astonished that my first crossword submission to The New York Times (or anywhere) had been accepted.
Longtime New Orleans residents were astonished that this famously wet city could be so paralyzed by a rainstorm.
"I was astonished I did not get a better deal," said Mr. Bloom, who couldn't afford the increase.
In a Cunningham dance, the mind can wander, experience different rates of change, be baffled, engrossed, astonished, bored.
But I am continually astonished at the lengths some people will go to to vilify everything he does.
Never has a game made me so astonished at its ingenuity and its seemingly endless ability to surprise.
When Anna, on a whim, indulges his desire, he is astonished by what seems to be his vindication.
News of the future loan had actually astonished curator Pierre Bouet, who is charged with caring for the embroidery.
He said he is astonished by her dedication, so much so that he is enlivened to find new treatments.
Cramer was astonished when the price of crude went down on Tuesday, but oil and gas stocks went up.
Our founders would be astonished at how life today compares with the poverty and the misery of the 1840s.
A union source close to the German company's supervisory board ‎said on Wednesday he was "astonished" by Mueller's remarks.
"He has astonished people by breaking the rules of religious extremism and pushing for moderate Islam," says Ms Alneami.
"From the moment I was arrested, I was astonished at what was happening to me," he told The Verge.
" On Monday, PBS tweeted her response in which she said she was "astonished and pleased to win the award.
In Ghana, some are astonished that anybody could have believed that higher pay would have made cops less greedy.
I'm astonished that it took these Latino Republicans so long to learn that Trump was hustling them all along.
A union source close to the German company's supervisory board said on Wednesday he was "astonished" by Mueller's remarks.
I was astonished to see the adjacent home owners coming out and patting him on the back for this.
Somehow, my pinky finger ended up in his mouth and I was astonished at strength of his sucking reflex.
I was astonished and outraged at how hard it was for him to simply use the bathroom on campus.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he was "astonished" when he saw the report, according to Russia's Tass news agency.
I was quite astonished that you could have an audience that sits through two-thirds of [Ladies and Gentlemen].
Then I was astonished by the quality of the drawings: thousands and thousands of great drawings in cardboard boxes.
When Mr. Hammer told the lawmakers repeatedly that there were no real problems at the railroad, they seemed astonished.
Mr. Malek's performance particularly astonished Mercury's bandmates, who felt the actor was not merely portraying Mercury, but inhabiting him.
Letters To the Editor: After the 2016 election, friends reached out to me anguished and astonished about the results.
Consequently, none of the more extreme conduct I have been reading about in the newspapers lately has astonished me.
Pundits were astonished that the House Democratic caucus would turn to a liberal from San Francisco as its leader.
Whether Mr. Trump's response was intended to be sarcastic or not, longtime Russia policy makers said they were astonished.
Susan's ability to read my mind astonished me; our editing sessions often felt like a visit to a psychiatrist.
This passage will leave you astonished by human ingenuity and, like Parks, deeply distressed on behalf of the mice.
But when I returned less than twenty-four hours later I was astonished to find the creek bed dry.
He also learned karate for a scene in which Presley demonstrated his black belt moves for an astonished Nixon.
"I used to feel like this generation was irresponsible, but we really feel astonished by their courage," said Elshowaya.
He immediately brought it to Sharon Mahoney, the university's director of construction management, who was astonished by the discovery.
Turner's mother, overhearing him, was astonished: the story was true, and it told of a time before Nat's birth.
And as I began to pay attention, I was astonished — believe me — at how often I used the word.
Trump said that if we undertake an action, he would be surprised, and of course he will be astonished.
I was astonished, because I have managed more financial advisers in my career than probably anyone in the country.
Are you, again, as a semi-detached or semi-casual observer, I'm astonished at the escalation of the lying.
"No one should be astonished when their claim is ignored, reviled, and claimed to be fake news," he said.
" He added, "I did not get to know him but like everybody else, I was just astonished by his music.
As the last mourner left the home, Rukundo stepped out of the car and walked up to her astonished husband.
"I did not get to know him but like everybody else, I was just astonished by his music," Esten says.
Jim Cramer was astonished when the price of crude went down on Tuesday, but oil and gas stocks went up.
He was astonished to learn he would be escorted by four policemen wearing ski masks and armed with machine guns.
"Luckily, I'm 24, so I am still on my parents' [plan]," Lahren told Handler, prompting laughter from the astonished audience.
Through the eyes of New Horizons, we got our first good look at Pluto, and what we saw astonished us.
Patty McCord, director of human resources at Netflix, was astonished when a woman burst into tears when she was fired.
She was astonished to find the report that Terry Raymond had filed about the dark-web threats to Amy's life.
The defeated French leader was astonished that the victorious Duke of Wellington opted for a policy of moderation and compromise.
Even father and former racer Jos, the 19-year-old Red Bull driver's biggest fan and fiercest critic, was astonished.
Nearly forty minutes later, the people were astonished to find Little St. Don still standing on that pew, still talking.
"We are astonished and horrified by the rise in anti-Semitic harassment, incidents and violence targeting our communities," Greenblatt said.
"I am truly astonished at how this video has spread throughout the internet," Naydev said in a statement to FOX13.
"I would be astonished if Nancy Pelosi brought that to the floor," one House Democrat told The Hill on Tuesday.
These leukemic cells, stuck in adolescence, were the harbingers of the coming horde that had so astonished 19th-century surgeons.
I'm always astonished to see fairly new brands spending what I'd guess is a lot of money on television ads.
To the Editor: I was astonished that two candidates chose to deliver part of their response to questions in Spanish.
On the same court that day in Hershey, Pa., Wilt Chamberlain astonished the basketball world with a 2100-point game.
When Kaneisha Marable realized that she was riding on her own, she looked back at Ms. La Fortune Reed, astonished.
But most of all, in the hours after Irish voters swept away a ban on abortion, many were simply astonished.
Ms. Shaw seems both astonished that Showtime gave her so much control and determined to make the most of it.
Even Rafael Nadal, who won in straight sets against John Millman on Tuesday, sounded astonished to hear of the upsets.
He seemed astonished by America, and he expressed that astonishment in sentences that zinged up and out like bottle rockets.
But analysts in East Asia were astonished that Mr. Bannon would suggest pulling all United States troops from South Korea.
He was astonished into silence, because, if this was a scene from nature, it was a nature rooted in barbarity.
He and his fellow Post reporters were astonished to find how difficult it was to gather figures about police shootings.
I stared at it slack-jawed for the last ten minutes, astonished at the places where Marvel took this film.
I am an ignorant man, and was roundly astonished to learn that the skincare intelligentsia recommend applying sunscreen every day.
FCA's take: "We are astonished by this filing, both its content and its timing," the company said in a statement.
But what astonished Egyptians most was the sight of a man many had long feared, scowling in a courtroom cage.
That's what this meal was: fun and creative, with risks that didn't always pay off, but astonished when they did.
I was astonished — I got into mining to make money, but I had no idea it would be this big.
As a former Soviet dissident, I was astonished by the overwhelmingly pro-American sentiment at every level of Russian society.
The Lebedevs astonished us further, naming a politician, the former chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, as the next editor.
She's waking up, is astonished to see the confrontation in the room, and says she doesn't know what he's doing.
Mr. Sobelle will soon have an entire house — custom built, room by room, before your astonished eyes — to shelter him.
"I am astonished by what I'm about to write: I keep laughing," wrote Carroll, a longtime columnist for Elle magazine.
And I was astonished to find that it's proposed they be banned and, frankly, so were very many gay men.
I am happy to report that I was astonished in several ways, which I hope to enumerate in this review.
And I am astonished to find from his numerous articles [about our book] that he still has not read it.
I was astonished how someone could know me so well so fast — and would be bold enough to call me out.
The revelation also astonished the mayor, Terry L. Thielen, who quickly put repealing the law at the top of her agenda.
But when the Kim Jong-il died on a train in 2011, she was astonished by the reaction of her countrymen.
When I was offered the role I was astonished, but in the end I judged myself to be the perfect Roberta.
But do not be astonished if something like Q-West serves as a template for American interventions in the Trump era.
"One ISIS fighter hid in a tunnel for five hours, with 60 peshmerga trying to get him out," he said, astonished.
" Keith Reed, who's face was absolutely priceless throughout the entire interaction said he was "astonished at almost everything I just heard.
People continue to be astonished by how far long-term interest rates can fall, just as they were earlier in Japan.
He might be even more astonished, given these numbers, to find that Congress had just passed a tax-cutting stimulus plan.
Brok said he was "astonished" at how far the negotiations had come and that differences remained over "just a few words".
I am astonished and appalled that references to my work are being misrepresented in this way to use for political capital.
Baby is easy to overestimate; several colleagues were astonished by how tiny it was when they first met it in person.
I was most astonished by the fact that butter was used as a sacred tool in many cultures around the world.
I showed the astonished salesperson my old photo and she cleverly figured out how to apply the butterflies without touching them.
He told Reuters he had heard about the attack, but was astonished at any idea that the military could be involved.
"I don't always ask my clients what their sign is, but usually I can tell," she explained to her astonished pupils.
"We are astonished that a person who speaks with such consistent integrity, honesty and moral authority exists in national politics today."
But Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser to Germany's Allianz, said officials at the BoE would be "astonished" by the comments.
"I am frankly astonished at the amount of opioids the patient has been prescribed," a hospital specialist noted in his records.
MONDALE, 10:48: I'm astonished that not one question was asked about how they saw the elements of the vice presidency.
I was astonished not just by how beautiful all the food was, but also by how much variety each section offered.
That such a teeming metropolis could exist with such anonymity, not even known by its closest neighbors in Hangzhou, astonished me.
Chloe Kim, 17, the Korean-American snowboarder, astonished judges and crowds with a near-perfect gold medal run on the halfpipe.
The tragedy, and Mr. Silverio's heroism, have captivated New York City and left many astonished at the selflessness of the teenager.
" Or, when describing his experience watching Disney's "Pinocchio" frame by frame: "When I noticed how it was done, I was astonished.
In an ironic reversal, the wife is astonished to discover that the professor is keeping a notebook about her: Matters worsening.
Another video earlier this year showed a large boar running up a major city road under the gaze of astonished drivers.
Women will someday outnumber men, Mamacita informs an astonished Pauline, and Hollywood will have to respond by catering to that majority.
Still, the company&aposs early backers are thrilled with what the company has achieved so far — thrilled, but not necessarily astonished.
I have been astonished by the insensitivity and ignorance demonstrated by those whose employment it is to enact health care policy.
Then, with an astonished lurch, you notice sly, subversive genius Banksy has stencilled Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald either side of her.Wham!
When they arrived, he ran them through the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer at his lab and was astonished at the readout.
"Justice Thomas, after a 10-year silence, astonished all in attendance by asking nine questions, all in the same case," she said.
"But I was astonished at how quickly I bonded with her — and how immediately, she just felt like she was my child."
The doctor, astonished that he was contemplating rushing back into such a high-stress occupation, inadvertently gave him his first heart joke.
"I was very astonished and pleased to win the award," she shared in a message posted to the Masterpiece PBS Twitter account.
Laeticia Hallyday's lawyer Ardavan Amir-Aslani told Reuters he was "astonished" by the ruling, which was not made public, and would appeal.
Cramer was astonished that Red Hat had 60 percent growth in deals over $1 million for the quarter compared to last year.
Obama followed the teachings of her "Let's Move" campaign for the next sketch: She jump roped as astonished elevator-goers looked on.
I was astonished to learn recently that Grumpy Cat, the forever-frowning pet beloved by the internet, is nearly five years old.
Elaine Chen, a brand manager for a beauty product, said she was astonished and angered by the latest case, involving Yi You.
You may be astonished by the $7.67 million that the work, by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, fetched at a Christie's sale last fall.
"I have seen the trailer to this film, and I was astonished that anyone would depict Maui like this," Mr. Bishop said.
But if you disable your ad blocker and browse some of your favorite websites, you're going to be astonished with Kimetrak's information.
The move astonished Ms. Swift enough that she spent the next three springs and summers recreating these conditions and documenting the behavior.
The sight of so many enslaved men and women on campus in the 1850s astonished Mr. Brooks, the young seminarian from Massachusetts.
Call me skeptical or a cynic -- maybe I am -- but I would be lying if I didn't say that I was astonished.
British tabloid The Daily Mail reported the couple's plan to spend more time together in North America has "simply astonished" royal aides.
But in the four days I had the GT, my wife was astonished at my eagerness to run errands of any kind.
Elmar Brok said he was "astonished" at how far the negotiations had come and that differences remained over "just a few words".
"I would be astonished" if Republicans in Congress banded together with Democrats "to rescind a core policy of the president," he said.
At dawn, the birds storm the back yard like a country they are astonished to have won without a single shot fired.
"I am quite astonished that a country that is supposed to cooperate with the ICC is not respecting the system," Knoops said.
In Germany, he was astonished to see volunteer docents: the idea that anyone would work in a museum for nothing seemed fantastical.
We're told Calvin was understandably "bewildered and astonished" when he heard about TayTom's visit to meet his mother, Diana ... in the freakin' U.K.!!
"I am just now getting my arms around the reality that I need to think about this," he replied, sounding a bit astonished.
A teenage Elena attends a party here at the home of her professor, onCorso Vittorio Emanuele, where the bourgeois elegance leaves her astonished.
We approached the waterfall, the climax of the Ruby Falls tour, and I couldn't help being genuinely astonished by the sight of it.
DAVID LAMBERTLondon I was astonished to learn of a correlation between heavy drinkers and Donald Trump's victory ("Illness as an indicator", November 19th).
It's a phenomenon which has crossed borders and astonished crowds in Burkina Faso at Festima, the International Festival of Masks and the Arts.
The only reason why more have not bolted, apparently, is that they've been astonished by the strength of grass-roots support for Trump.
"We were astonished, appalled, and also saddened," Patti Rundall, the policy director of the British advocacy group Baby Milk Action, told the Times.
Mitchell said companies are astonished by how few graduates are coming — and how long it will take before they get out of school.
" And When They See Us star Vera Farmiga told PEOPLE in a statement: "Astonished by the surprising Emmy pat on my back, humbled.
"Those of you who are astonished at this turn of good fortune, let me admonish you — there is nothing astonishing here," Cramer said.
He was astonished that such a big group, with so many hits of their own, would kick off their concert with a cover.
" Wilson, who said she overheard the conversation on speakerphone in the car, called Trump a "sick man" and said the family was "astonished.
Western, Iraqi and Kurdish officials say they are astonished that Iraqi authorities neglected to prepare a post-battle plan for governance and security.
At last, from a side door in the hall, out walked the queen, who was astonished to find Sullivan dawdling in the shadows.
"I was just astonished that one man had the power and talent to produce such sounds," Ms. al-Ibrahim said in an email.
That is fewer than the 1.5m who die from viral hepatitis, a fact that would have astonished the delegates to Durban in 231.
"I'm astonished how many artists today — and especially young artists — are getting back to crafts and are hooking in Bauhaus ideas," she said.
Much of the country was astonished that the New York real-estate developer had pounced on a seemingly perfunctory invitation from its president.
She went to 42nd Street grindhouse cinemas with the screenwriter Buck Henry, who watched, astonished, as she lent a hand to masturbating patrons.
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, has astonished the world with his development of a Falcon 85033 rocket with a reusable first stage.
Researchers measuring heat in Uranus' atmosphere said they were "astonished" to find the warm glow of rings around the planet in thermal images.
I'd be astonished if the outcome of the Federal Open Markets Committee meeting is anything other than a 25-basis-point rate hike.
He said he was both fascinated and astonished by the fact that 128 million tons of milk go to waste every year globally.
I went from a photographer whose first book astonished a lot of people to my first film, Kids, which is the same thing.
When I entered the service in 1983, I was astonished at the number of those who had never been west of the Appalachians.
In the summer of 19603, they opened their home as a weekend art salon and were astonished when hundreds of people showed up.
Its mere mention astonished analysts in a region still grappling with the implications of Mr. Trump's impromptu tirade against North Korea last week.
We'd covered it up so well that our kids were astonished to hear that we ever had a hard part in our marriage.
The day I left, the cover of the newspaper was about Prisoner X. That guy was so similar to me, it astonished me.
One student was astonished that so many people around the world couldn't just go into their kitchen and get water from a tap.
Can the students, who astonished and awakened this Central American nation of six million people, transform their street activism into actual political change?
Except for a dry spell in the Dark Ages, the constant current of clean drinking water has for centuries astonished visitors to Rome.
Opinion Columnist I left a recent matinee of "Queen & Slim," the mesmerizing new outlaw romance directed by Melina Matsoukas, astonished on two levels.
" He also said fellow members were astonished at news of the killing, describing it as "more like something that would happen in Dublin.
Finally, in 1991, a newly elected governor, Lawton Chiles, showed up at a court hearing in Miami and astonished the audience by capitulating.
ANONYMOUS I'm sort of astonished that you didn't ask your friends (either time!) why your husband was being cast out into the desert.
Top Democrats were astonished to see how unified Republicans remained in their opposition to the health care law, even as millions gained coverage.
It was her astonished, half-laughing reaction to the revelation that Claudia had once been so hungry that she traded sex for food.
"We are completely astonished by the plans to give these objects to a museum, because we think they are mostly fake," said Dr. Klingen.
No one who has payed even moderate attention to the news, to statistics, or to history can reasonably say they are astonished by this.
On Thursday, one veteran London hedge fund manager who was preparing for the Brexit fallout on Friday said he was astonished by the missives.
At the bars they visited that weekend, Murnick was astonished by the way men flocked to Ellerin and became indignant when she dismissed them.
Optimistic by nature, a man of winning smiles, he still firmly expected to die in the communist system, and was astonished when freedom came.
And it leaves an astonished critic wondering just what purpose Mr. Penn and Mr. Beatty think they serve with this strangely antique, sentimental claptrap.
But as their anxious questions to their boss reveal, the marines of Darwin will not be astonished if the world comes to find them.
With the capital-driven society we live in, I'm astonished by the lack of effort from the industry's heavy hitters to include larger sizes.
Astonished theatergoers would find the star of the show they were attending tossing back drinks, even before they could get their own orders in.
"We were astonished, appalled, and also saddened," Patti Rundall, the policy director of Baby Milk Action, an advocacy group promoting breastfeeding, told the Times.
Off his head, it looked like, says the astonished play-by-play announcer, and replays would confirm that this is exactly what had happened.
The move had left the Taliban "astonished and hurt", said one of the sources, who is familiar with the details of the prisoner exchange.
Senior officials working on Brexit were also astonished: there had not yet been a detailed discussion of the E.C.J. with May and her team.
In time, perhaps, this perspective will no longer surprise, and even now, few familiar with colonial American history will be astonished by Warren's account.
Bill Hader's mouth and chin were coated with fake blood, so when he pivoted, astonished, he looked like a vampire startled in mid-snack.
People were astonished that he did not tell a touching personal story, as all politicians do, and as Ronald Reagan did to consummate effect.
One of the things that astonished him most, however, was a new invention, implemented by Kublai Khan, a grandson of the great conqueror Genghis.
"I was astonished that you blamed black people for poor health and poverty because of all the chicken and barbecue they eat," Ames said.
One police canine trainer suggested that many of the dogs would have to be euthanized, touching off a wave of criticism from astonished experts.
Then the Shadow Brokers astonished him by dropping technical details that made clear they knew about highly classified hacking operations that he had conducted.
For years I've bounced between these two interpretations of the president — at times astonished by his incompetence; at other times amazed by his cunning.
Well, 1.2 million people voted Yes but what astonished me was the realization that Irish people were voting for someone they knew and loved.
Michael Standaert, an American journalist in Shenzhen who sends his children to the kindergarten, recorded the pole dancing, and his astonished anger, on Twitter.
On a 2004 tour of the hospital, Courtney was astonished to learn of 3,600 badly corroded cans of cremains in an outbuilding, still unclaimed.
And I'm astonished at how little the political rhetoric reflects the lived experiences of women who seek abortion care, or those of their caregivers.
As White House advisers listened astonished, he ordered them to shut down the entire 2,000-mile border with Mexico — by noon the next day.
It astonished even some members of the Trump administration who said killing the Iranian general had not been seriously considered — at least not recently.
Howell was astonished the Justice Department hadn't brought Thomas to justice sooner after the Websters' 2014 ordeal, for which prosecutors filed a criminal complaint.
Adama Barrow, a real estate company owner, was declared the winner a day after voters cast ballots, in an upset victory that astonished observers.
The Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a friend of Franken's, recalls being astonished that there had been no emergency meeting of the Democratic caucus.
" He added: "I'm astonished by this unconditional support for Déby, while you pass over in silence his authoritarian practices and his human rights violations.
The children were all astonished to see the Maximum Leader bounce a basketball up the stairs to their playground and sink it without effort.
On North Korea, Trump elicited astonished gasps from the audience when he offered one of the bluntest threats he's ever issued against the country.
A South Carolina sheriff's office received numerous calls of a kangaroo sighting Tuesday morning -- and responding deputies were astonished the far-fetched reports were true.
At the summit of Kilauea, enormous ash plumes — some reaching as high as 10,000 feet (210,27 m) above sea level — astonished onlookers yesterday (May 210).
Given all the attention lavished on accuracy in the retro gaming scene nowadays, I'm astonished that Sony evidently made no provisions for any of that.
I've always been jealous of the automatic time zone switching in OS X, and astonished that Microsoft has never added a similar feature to Windows.
In one scene, in a fit of furious dissatisfaction, he hurls a sheaf of sketches into a flaming brazier before a group of astonished onlookers.
Avery Gardiner, the co-president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said she'd be astonished if the settlement wasn't approved by political appointees.
Pieters and Manners really pushed their luck with some of their fabrications, and they were quite astonished they got away with a lot of it.
As with the "Brexit" referendum that astonished Britain a few months ago, much of the prominent coverage failed to capture the level of popular fury.
Stoudemire was excited and astonished by the money he now had, so he decided to splurge on a few gifts for himself and his family.
People across the globe were astonished at the image of a blue orb shrouded in wispy white clouds, its land surfaces betraying no national borders.
In the 2014 five-game wipeout of the Heat, he wore an endearingly astonished look when declared the most valuable player of the championship series.
"I am rather astonished that others can use our own phone number range, fraudulently represent our organization, and we have no recourse," Mr. Summitt said.
So far in 21, murder is down 25 percent from last year, a record-low level that has astonished police leaders and cannot be fudged.
"But what really astonished us was the discovery that these spectral features were visible only during the optical dips in the light-curve," Charles said.
In Glasgow, Lacroix is astonished by what he eventually decides must be gaslights, and later he tries to imagine the world in 60 more years.
But it was once ringed with mounds of discarded mollusk shells, middens of the Calusa people whose size and robust health astonished the early Spaniards.
When they returned after 14 weeks in Hamburg, their playing was so tight and hard-edge that listeners who had previously been dismissive were astonished.
Trump was also astonished that few have publicly come to Jackson's defense leading the President to believe Jackson's fate is more perilous than it seemed.
He received the title of Court Composer from the Elector of Saxony and, on a visit to Berlin, astonished Frederick the Great with his improvisations.
I was astonished at how quickly fans&apos attention switched from the game to utter shock and disbelief at the news of Bryant&aposs passing.
"I am astonished by the shape of violence Evo Morales has generated within the country by simply holding on to power," she told CNN Friday.
" On Twitter he wrote, "I'm astonished that these old, and legal, facts have become a story, three months from the first round of presidential voting.
It was in that car, Union Jack boldly flying, that she drove over the border, past astonished Nazi guards and into Germany on Aug. 28.
Kraig writes that a contemporary press account portrayed Congress as "astonished," and that even members of Wilson's Cabinet were doubted the wisdom of the move.
What he found astonished him: There was no record anywhere to indicate that William Shakespeare of Stratford ever read a book or wrote a letter.
"When I heard that I got $3 million, I was more than elated and excited and astonished that it was that much," he told the outlet.
However when Nadia cuts the fruit open — splitting apart a 3D sphere and creating a fourth dimension for it — "it's still ripe," an astonished Alan exclaims.
A spokeswoman for Mercedes-Benz said she was "astonished" by the verdict, given that parent company Daimler had won legal disputes over Airscarf in lower courts.
"Justice Thomas, after a 10-year silence, astonished all in attendance by asking nine questions, all in the same case," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg later remarked.
She astonished everyone when, towards the end of her six-month trial, she wrote to Leakey having observed a chimp adapting a twig to capture termites.
And as stumped as they were that someone had swiped it, forest officials were just as astonished when someone returned the boulder, sometime during Halloween night.
But the store manager insisted, and Emmanuel Macron, France's young economy minister, found himself greeting astonished shoppers as they leafed through piles of lace-trimmed bras.
In front of astonished clerks, they seized hundreds of draft records, carried them down to the parking lot and set them on fire with homemade napalm.
" The article explained that "when they first burst on the astonished gaze of Paris and the rest of the universe they were known as the 'Invertebrates.
YOUSOF AKASHEH, a rebel fighter, was astonished to find out that the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was planning to seize his wife's property.
"When I heard that I got $3 million, I was more than elated and excited and astonished that it was that much," he told Fox News.
That's why everyone has been astonished when he has unveiled indictments replete with detail and texture that suggest that whatever his conclusions, he will miss nothing.
Films and shorts, music videos, video installations, and even transmedia performances astonished us over the past 19983 months, opening new perspectives to the ever-expanding medium.
Velpeau was just as astonished by what he likened to a thick gruel, leading him to conclude that his dead patient's blood was full of pus.
"We were astonished to learn about the report about a supposed conversation between the chancellor and Mr Weber," government spokesman Steffen Seibert told a news conference.
At the far left edge of the canvas, one may also notice a black female figure who helps lift or wash one of Diana's astonished nymphs.
Still, I'm not mad that "The Shape of Water" won, and kind of astonished that it almost looks like the safe, mainstream choice for best picture.
"I was astonished by it," said Wes Cowan, an auctioneer and dealer who examined the secretary at the Winter Antiques Show in New York in 21862.
Op-Ed Contributor I was astonished when, in late September, Saudi Arabia decided to allow women to drive, putting an end to an old, discriminatory practice.
Astonished at her good luck, she thanked the Italians for their kindness and lifted the medallion of St. Christopher hanging from her necklace for a blessing.
In 2015, when Mr. Najib's and Ms. Rosmah's daughter married the nephew of President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, guests were astonished by their lavish wedding celebrations.
She moved downtown four years later, and when she returned to the neighborhood in 2016, she was astonished to find Mr. Singh still in his spot.
Cramer was astonished that Smith kept his job after a major breach at the agency may have put data from 143 million U.S. consumers at risk.
What other White House would be astonished that the Russians would then distribute photos of their officials backslapping the grinning Mr. Trump inside the Oval Office?
In recent years, millions of people have been astonished, even thrilled, to learn from those popular genetic tests that their DNA is laced with Neanderthal genes.
But its success in children who have brain malformations, intractable seizures or diseases where damage is confined to half the brain, has astonished even seasoned scientists.
Those comments astonished some in the White House since, in their view, congressional Republicans had seven years to prepare for repeal of the health care law.
When McIlroy was told about the maintenance work — on the fourth, 12th, 14th and 18th holes — and about the complaints of other players, he seemed astonished.
Patrick Gaspard, president of the Soros-founded Open Society Foundations, said in a letter to Sandberg late Wednesday that he was "astonished" by the Times report.
In 1839, when French inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre permanently rendered an image with his daguerreotype invention, the world was astonished by the possibilities of photography.
After finishing high school, in 20163, Kjartansson astonished his friends by enrolling in the Home Economics School of Reykjavík, known to everyone as the Housewife School.
U.S. officials — with whom I have been in regular contact — dedicated to investigating corruption in Venezuela have been completely astonished by the magnitude of corruption there.
Over 50 years ago, an astonished Wallace had singled him out from the lectern at Harvard, having discovered that the Alabama rebel had followed him north.
"I am astonished that three years into his administration, the president still does not appreciate the merits of sustained investments in diplomacy and development," she said.
So I was astonished not just by the publicity, but by the positive responses: people thanking me and sharing stories about rapes and assaults they had experienced.
A source at the meeting was astonished as to how White House staff could have been so blindsided by the initial conservative opposition to the GOP plan.
Richard Blais is astonished at the alleged extortion and racial slurs that Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi claims she had to endure while working on the show.
I remember being astonished that the infrared actually worked, although it took many minutes of tinkering and careful placement of the infrared panels to pull it off.
" He was astonished, he said, by what he learned: "What vetting procedures are there to make sure the guy you just smoked is really a bad guy?
"I was absolutely astonished and down on my knees praying to a higher power that we would hold together," Appel recalls over a conference call with reporters.
Mr Trump's decision to pull out America's 2,000-odd troops from eastern Syria astonished friend and foe alike, none more than his own envoys to the region.
"I was astonished at how people could have such unwavering, strong faith, even though they're looking at a church that doesn't fully accept them," Kruszewski told Refinery29.
When At Eternity's Gate star Willem Dafoe researched his starring role for the Vincent van Gogh biopic, the details of the iconic artist's life left him astonished.
Likewise, many modern feminists would be astonished at the idea that a woman should have to "tolerate" her partner's bad behavior as part of a political contract.
The first episode is savage in its opening: Jimmy doesn't remember saying "I love you" to Gretchen, and when she says it offhand, he's astonished and repulsed.
Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz of "American Pickers" were astonished to find the dilapidated van during filming in Chesterfield, a town about 100 miles west of Boston.
"I was astonished at the whole thing when it happened because I considered myself to be an awesome parent," one mother said, according to The American Press.
The campaign highlighted an open letter signed by 99 former Justice Department officials from both parties who declared that they were "astonished and perplexed" by Comey's actions.
"Let me / keep my mind on what matters, / which is my work, / which is mostly standing still and learning to be / astonished," she read, then looked up.
"We were astonished to see the rings jump out clearly when we reduced the data for the first time," said Leigh Fletcher, who led the telescope observations.
The long hours that the Chinese worked astonished many Italians, who were used to several weeks of paid vacation a year and five months of maternity leave.
"I am astonished," he was heard to tell his lawyers — a reaction familiar to those of us who came to know Mr. Karadzic during the Bosnian killing.
SpaceX has astonished the world during the past few years, perfecting the art of reusable rockets and thus bringing down the cost of launching things into space.
I ran Geekbench 4 on the iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus and the octa-core-running Samsung Galaxy S8+ and was astonished at the results.
White House and Hill GOP leaders are astonished by the unambiguous, far-reaching power of Steve Bannon and policy guru Stephen Miller over, well, just about everything.
While some visitors may be astonished to discover previously unknown medieval animals, they will likely also connect to the recognizable visual language communicated by these illuminated manuscripts.
" Of the inability to move forward, Dominique Bona, a novelist and one of the few women to sit among the immortals, said, "I'm a little bit astonished.
At the time, I still found myself astonished that black men were and are killed by police in the UK too—this wasn't just an American problem.
In the case of Frome, legal practitioners would be astonished if the government approves the town's draft bylaw, partly because there are already laws protecting the river.
Jon Krakauer, who wrote about Mr. Tillman's life in his 2009 book, "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman," was astonished by the soldier's depth.
" Of her 2016 defeat, she shared that "I went in and laid down on the bed in the bedroom and I was just, like, bewildered and astonished.
"We were all touched that night and continue to be astonished and amazed at the outpouring of love and support my little fighter is receiving," April adds.
One person who was astonished she had never heard of Ms. Jones was a professor named Lee Remington, who began research for a biography four years ago.
As for Anzalone, he's just astonished at how fast something can move from a flash of curiosity to a working molecular machine in the world of Crispr.
Other scientists have traced the cactus lineage through DNA analysis, and they have been astonished to learn just how recently cactuses became major players on the landscape.
In Gariseb, at last, we learn the cause of Rebecca's trauma in a scene so brutal and eloquent that I reread it several times, astonished and awed.
He said he was then tied to the jeep's bumper and driven around at least nine villages, where local people were astonished at the sight of him.
Yet today it's taken as self-evident among conservative Christians that life begins at fertilization — without realizing that this would have astonished many Christians throughout the ages.
" There is one quote I like lot from the poet Mary Oliver, about instructions for living a great life: "Pay attention, be astonished, and tell about it.
"I was astonished," Mr. Vroegh, 37, said in an interview on Thursday, taking a break from his new job as a nursing director at a rehabilitation center.
When he abruptly and gratuitously broke into Spanish during his very first answer (can you say overeager?), Booker must not have been the only one who was astonished.
Although the happy couple had been warned by Caesars Palace to expect surprises at the wedding, they were astonished when Stewart appeared at the altar and serenaded them.
Thomas, a small-scale organic farmer in his seventies, told me that he was astonished when the Sagehen group, especially the Forest Service, seemed open to the idea.
"I was absolutely astonished to see that this great statesman showed such profound interest in science, to engage in writing an essay about this topic," Livio told Gizmodo.
In Namisasi, a quiet and unremarkable trading settlement in southern Malawi, villagers were astonished last year when eight sex workers arrived with their babies and set up business.
She also homed in on Trump's position on Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying that past presidents, including Republican Ronald Reagan, would be astonished at the Republican candidate's comments.
"I saw they also have hitmen who do murder for hire, and I was astonished to see that the price was very low: only $5,000," the customer writes.
"We were astonished to learn about the report about a supposed conversation between the chancellor and Mr. Weber," government spokesman Steffen Seibert told a regular government news conference.
But I could always count on Zoo to deliver consistently bananas entertainment with a hefty wink, and to keep my jaw dragging along the floor in astonished glee.
I recently reread Miller's "Quiet Days in Clichy" and Cendrars's "The Astonished Man," which are both more involving than "Paris Vagabond" because they are built around developed characters.
As a graduate student at Harvard in the 1969s and early 1980s, I was astonished to find how little concern there was for the beliefs of ordinary Americans.
Opinion Columnist During George W. Bush's very bad presidency, liberals would sometimes invoke Ronald Reagan with a sort of incredulous nostalgia, astonished that he seemed reasonable in comparison.
As most of us in New York groan over subway delays, he was astonished at how he could journey across a metropolis for the swipe of his MetroCard.
The year after his death in 2008, Christie's auctioned off the collection accumulated by Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé, with results that astonished the art world.
I'm astonished and moved to see how she intimately engages and clearly depicts the lives of people living in a slum village next to the airport in Mumbai.
When she realized that Ms. Levesque was right, she said she was astonished — and thought that changing the law to raise the age would be an easy lift.
I remain astonished how anti-government conservatives reserve such reverence for one particular government function: the ability to find perfect justice and seal the matter forever via execution.
However, pinching the view on your phone screen to read a PDF of a print magazine page apparently didn't catch on, and I'm as astonished as you are.
While the team worked on a mock up of the car, one very large and rough craftsman was astonished by what they were creating, Gandini told CNN Business.
" Mr. Kristol wrote that he was "astonished how intellectually twinned" the two proved to be — "pursuing different subjects while thinking the same thoughts and reaching the same conclusions.
" From that exercise, he told Vox he came away "astonished" about global health's reliance on consultants, and "a skeptic of the amount of funding that goes into [them].
If this had been ramen, I would have left some noodles behind, but I finished this bowl, all of it, in an astonished haze, and didn't regret it.
Although the short story was published way back in 503, almost 70 years from today, it astonished me how Bradbury foresaw the implications of technology on people's lives.
Instead of rooting out the speculative missing planet between Mars and Jupiter, astronomers were astonished to find multitudes of tiny worlds, the likes of which had never been seen.
Apart from the negativity of arguing with people endlessly, I'm constantly astonished by the things people say to me on social media—knowing well that I often read them.
I think the real question is, why are we still astonished by this — what has happened between 1979 and Charlottesville that made us think this is new or different?
And he unleashed such a torrent of notes, at such speed, to illustrate the potential of his own instrument to dazzle as well as annoy, that Brel was astonished.
"I was astonished, not because it is so good but because it is so bad," Donald Grayson, an archaeologist at the University of Washington, told the New York Times.
If you have a MacBook, you're probably astonished when you notice your machine running sluggishly, or when you somehow magically run out of the (usually pretty massive) drive space.
Cramer was astonished that the company would sell for so little, but the board was under pressure from short-sighted activists who were in position to demand a sale.
"Most Americans are astonished to learn that each year billions of taxpayer dollars are given out to people who are in our country illegally," Messer said in a statement.
Tony Murrell Bronx • I continue to be astonished at the absence of perspective on what for many would have to be perhaps the most polarizing aspect of Ali's past.
Among them is Nour, who moved to the United States less than a year ago to escape the civil war in Syria and has astonished organizers with his talents.
Now, no matter how many times I have visited the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens or the collection of Agia Aikaterini of Sinai in Crete, I'm always astonished.
Mr. Keillor's New Yorker colleagues were astonished, wondering how this painfully shy man could possibly host a radio show, let alone divert his energies from a burgeoning literary career.
Nearly every page operator I spoke to was astonished by the tone their commenters took, comparing them to things like torch-wielding mobs and sharks in a feeding frenzy.
I'm reluctant to admit it and astonished to say it, especially since the president mocked Christine Blasey Ford in his ugly and gratuitous way at a rally on Tuesday.
He was astonished to find that the source was a male club-winged manakin, a small cinnamon-bodied species with a red cap and black-and-white mottled wings.
"One can understand why the French might be a little astonished, at a moment of budgetary constraints, that the president would make such an order from Sèvres," she said.
LONDON — When the news spread this week that Britain would send back to India its "best junior chess prospect in a generation," more than a few people were astonished.
"We're astonished, and don't understand why an indictment was filed," Mr. Rufus-Isaacs said, adding that Mr. Ovitz was not paid because assets were tied up in the bankruptcy.
When Cramer worked at Goldman Sachs advising wealthy investors on their portfolios, he was astonished by how often home gamers would crush the market simply by doing their homework.
Few people could have been more astonished at Mr. Parnas's access to the halls of power and prestige than those who say they were bilked or stiffed by him.
That deal that would create a combined automaker larger than GM. "We are astonished by this filing, both its content and its timing," said a statement from Fiat Chrysler.
Mr. Falk said in an email Friday evening that he had been "astonished by the furor caused by the report," and that Ms. Khalaf had been made a scapegoat.
When people got vitamin A, it stopped them from going blind as expected, but Sommer was astonished to discover that they were also nine times less likely to die.
I was astonished that prose so personal could at the same time be so relentlessly analytical and insightful, making his own complicated psychic development a matter of public consideration.
In a message to Information Minister Awwad bin Saleh Alawwad, the king wrote that he was "astonished by some of the phrases used in the column", according to Okaz newspaper.
The astonished conductor dropped off as it went over, and at the sight of the falling chimneys and breaking windows of the station, he understood that it was the Temblor.
You know, I really tried to focus on the work, but it always astonished me that there were a few times when I did feel compelled to represent all womanhood.
Wollaston, a member of the opposition Liberal Democrats, said she was "astonished" by his refusal to face scrutiny and noted it was the third time Johnson had postponed or cancelled.
Wollaston, a member of the opposition Liberal Democrats, said she was "astonished" by his refusal to face scrutiny and noted it was the third time Johnson had postponed or canceled.
How could schools have taught him about the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, he asks in astonished anger, instead of the holy trinity of Duke, Bird and Billie.
But security analysts and former defense officials said it was likely connected to its inclusion in President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which Chad's government said "astonished" and "baffled" them.
Mr Trump's announcement that he planned to pull out America's 20113,000-odd troops from eastern Syria astonished friend and foe alike, none more than his own envoys to the region.
One German M&A adviser said he was "astonished and concerned" about the move and would give Gabriel a piece of his mind at a meeting in Beijing next week.
This year I went to visit a safehouse and I was completely astonished by the work that they do and by the survivors who have come out of modern slavery.
I was astonished when I went to the National Archives that although it was scattered and uneven, that there really was a great deal of material -- rosters, memos, oral histories.
" She said she was astonished to be featured in a presidential phone call and that Trump would speak about her "or any ambassador in that way to a foreign counterpart.
"Most Americans are astonished to learn that each year billions of taxpayer dollars are given out to people who are in our country illegally," Messer said in a news release.
The fully drawn, reflective people in "For a Little While" are often just as astonished by their own mysterious behavior as we are, and they get into loads of trouble.
When she peers upon his face at his funeral, she's astonished by his solidity — this isn't her little, lithe Michael, but "Big Mike," as he was known on the street.
"It is as if people are preparing for war," said an astonished shopkeeper as Rwandans clamoured for rice, cooking oil, sugar and flour at a market in the capital Kigali.
Still Ms. Fuchs continued to be seemingly astonished by each leg of her saga as it unfolded, all the way up to the proposal just outside Paris at Chateau Bouffémont.
Masu was astonished by the monumental scale of the sun-bleached, concrete arena — built to hold 20,000 in a city of just 27,000 — and how it seemed suspended in time.
Light in the Attic won over the Japanese executives by stressing the label's connoisseur approach and by projecting album sales of 3,000 — a number that astonished them, Mr. Sullivan said.
Pity the title character in "The Astonished Woodchopper" who finds himself — while eavesdropping like "a dowsing rod, having located water" — in the crossfire of a fraternal argument at a wedding.
In one recent study, researchers were astonished to discover that the liver grows and shrinks by up to 40 percent every 24 hours, while the organs around it barely budge.
Tara Ganni, a Justice Center investigator, almost seemed astonished when questioning another employee to learn that former Willowbrook residents had gone through additional suffering at Union Avenue, a transcript shows.
"It's difficult to know whether to be appalled at the morality of this invitation, or just astonished at the stupidity of the invitation," said Scottish National Party lawmaker Alex Salmond.
Meanwhile, Trump's aides and outside allies are astonished by how quickly the mainstream press has taken to ridiculing the administration or engaging in what they see as petty score-settling.
But, in 2018, I was still astonished that someone who appeared to be a solid candidate for the Republican gubernatorial ticket would be told that lacking a penis was disqualifying.
In the filing, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan writes to Qualcomm executive chairman Paul Jacobs that he was "astonished" Qualcomm did not accept a weekend meeting to discuss a potential merger.
The appearance of bacterial and fungal growth over the next week astonishes my kids the way a rod turning into a snake in the Book of Exodus once astonished me.
Given his record, nobody, and especially not the Eurosceptics with whom he has surrounded himself, would be greatly astonished by such a betrayal, but they would be very angry with him.
RATCLIFFE: Well, as the chairman of the Cybersecurity Subcommittee on Homeland in the House, I&aposve got to tell you I was so astonished to hear that testimony from Michael Daniel.
Of course, the two doctor-passengers were astonished to discover that their driver is also a doctor — and was the very person that their professor suggested  they call with their question.
BTW ... we also asked Terrell about Tom Brady -- and ya gotta hear why the Hall of Famer is SO astonished by what the Pats QB is doing at 41 years old.
So it's amazing to see the party's elite utterly astonished by the success of a candidate who is just saying outright what they have consistently tried to convey with dog whistles.
Mainbayar showed the fossil to Takanobu Tsuihiji of the University of Tokyo, and "I immediately recognized that it might be a pterosaur and was astonished at its gigantic size," Tsuihiji said.
Trying to reverse the brainwashing is a prison teacher who is astonished that the bright-eyed young women seem untroubled by their crimes and the fact they will die in jail.
On May 13, 1988, Brazilian Ayrton Senna steered his Honda-powered McLaren MP4/4 car onto a dry track and put on a masterclass that is still discussed in astonished tones.
Though the statue itself wasn't present on the floor on Thursday, that didn't stop pictures to flood social media, where fans were astonished at how poorly the statue resembled the singer.
He'd always cared what they thought of him, and the fact that now they saw him as a patronizing, disrespectful son who got a girlfriend and blew them off astonished him.
From all that I know of Judge Kavanaugh and of Chief Justice Roberts, I would be astonished if those correct Supreme Court precedents on sex and sexual orientation discrimination were overridden.
Boston has many hospitals, and paramedics were quick to the scene, but they were astonished by how many spectators had already applied pressure to wounds, using clothing or coffee-shop napkins.
" 'LION KING' DANCER SUES DISNEY WORLD, CLAIMS SHE WAS FIRED AFTER MATERNITY LEAVE Phil Schofield, the head of inbound marketing at Schofields, said he was "a little astonished by these results.
In October, in what was supposed to be a fun exhibition of touch rugby in Japan, he flattened Toki Sekiguchi, an astonished 10-year-old, by charging him with his shoulder.
President Donald Trump's decision to tweet out a photo of an Iranian launch pad that he got from a classified intelligence briefing this week has astonished national-security and intelligence veterans.
Earlier this year, on a visit to the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, I was astonished to encounter a sculpture by the Brooklyn-born, Jamaica-raised artist Michael Richards.
I remember being astonished by the chutzpah of Michael Chabon's premise for "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" (2007): the endangered Jews of Europe being handed a scrap of Alaska instead of Palestine.
Given all the chestnuts in this show, the challenge is to see if we can still find a way to be astonished by them, as we were when they first appeared.
Her refusal to return to America or her insistence that senior staff members at a national weekly magazine walk her through their understanding of what a "fact" is initially astonished me.
But I am astonished by the focus on this ridiculous scandal when a much more important issue concerning Google and censorship has been largely ignored by the public and by Washington.
This search was set in motion 15 years ago when, at 3, Sophie was astonished to learn from me that all babies don't come from China but from inside their mothers.
When it was first presented "Bluebeard" astonished and angered many spectators, who were disturbed by Bausch's stop-and-start use of the score and her relentless depiction of male-female violence.
Cernovich said that when he began digging into Giuffre's suit he was astonished by the scope of the secrecy the judge had permitted, with large swaths of court filings blacked out.
If you've never thought to pick up these books because you didn't think they could give you the same adrenaline rush you're used to getting on Sunday nights, prepare to be astonished.
The relative safety of a wire fence didn't stop the crowd of astonished onlookers from telling this woman — who appeared to be at the zoo with children — what a moron she was.
Tami Jorgensen, who works for the auditor of the predominantly conservative Warren County, told me she was astonished at how many people had called asking for the location of their precinct's caucuses.
"I am sand dancing with joy, and utterly astonished to have polled more votes than the bums and the nuns," Stafford was quoted as saying in a press release sent to Mashable.
Now when she recounts her days traveling around the world as a young infectious disease epidemiologist in 2018, I am often astonished at how far humanity has come in just five decades.
The census numbers astonished economists and gave a boost to Democrats, who face the difficult task of convincing voters that they should hold on to the White House for a third term.
Bagehot may have applied some creative licence in the paragraphs above, but he was astonished to encounter every single one of the arguments therein at a recent pro-Brexit meeting in Hampshire.
Although overshadowed by a 1970s addition, its exterior looks much as it did when it opened in 1887 and astonished the city with its luxurious imported carpets, Parisian wallpaper and electrified chandeliers.
When my wife, Courtney, and I were expecting our first child just a few years ago, I was astonished by the almost instantaneous community of expectant and new mothers that greeted her.
But in February, the Crystal Cruises luxury travel company commissioned a feasibility study to return the S.S. United States to oceangoing service — an idea that astonished even the vessel's most optimistic supporters.
But this month, with the General Assembly session drawing to a close and legislative primary elections looming in May, senior lawmakers negotiated a bill whose scope astonished even some of its supporters.
Pancakes are an obvious Christmas morning crowd-pleaser, but the ricotta here will allow you to quietly break with tradition and repeat "Yes, the secret is the ricotta!" to astonished family members.
"Even though ... I've been writing about magical thinking in politics and anticipating all of this -- I too am astonished that reason is not prevailing," Fordham told CNN International's Julia Chatterley on Tuesday.
Granted the power to commit anyone he diagnoses with mental illness, the sober man of science is astonished by what he finds lurking within even the most apparently normal inhabitants of Itaguaí.
And while Cramer was astonished by were being created without a serious uptick in inflation, he couldn't get too bullish considering the damage that tariffs could still do to the U.S. economy.
As two dozen of us gathered for a post-screening discussion, I was both astonished and troubled, as a fellow evangelical, by the visceral sense of fear that gripped these young adults.
The United Nations' human rights envoy for Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, said she was "astonished" by the strict limitations Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's government placed on her July visit to the country.
As the clerk polls each juror, the victim's mother, Dorthy Moxley, and her son, John, clutch each other in their front-row seats, astonished smiles on their faces, tears in their eyes.
Mr. Ellis traveled around the country showing his film on college campuses and was astonished by how many young people approached him to talk about their desire to change the food system.
Even for a politician as dexterous as Mr. Bloomberg — who ran first as a Republican, then as an independent and now, possibly, as a Democrat — the reversal left his longtime observers astonished.
Clinton impeachments – the major differences Sharice Davids to vote for Trump impeachment articles: 'The facts are uncontested' MORE supporter, I was astonished at the palpable adoration in reporting about Sanders (I-Vt.).
I grew up reading Arthur Clarke, and Ray Bradbury and Clifford Simak, and all these guys including Philip K. Dick — but I had never read that book, which kind of astonished me.
Molding the minds and hearts of children is much easier than changing the ingrained beliefs of adults, she said, yet she has been astonished to find that "Roma" is doing just that.
But you'd be astonished at how many people have presented this question to me starting with, "Have you ever thought of the possibility that..." as if they genuinely had a new idea.
I'm in my 40s, and I got married and became a mother in my 40s, and I'm astonished by the compulsion brides have today to make every step of their relationship journey public.
"There is nothing in this paper to get amazed or too much astonished," Michel Lorblanchet, a co-author of the new study and the Director of Research at DNRS in France, told Gizmodo.
LUTHERANS and Catholics of any previous generation would have been utterly astonished by the emollient character of the commemorations of the Protestant Reformation that began this week and will continue for a year.
"I was astonished, not because it is so good but because it is so bad," Donald K. Grayson, an archaeologist at the University of Washington, told the New York Times of the study.
As the top-ranked graduating student stepped towards the front of the amphitheatre, however, she handed the astonished director a 20-page report, written by pupils and entitled "ENA: the urgency of reform".
What astonished Cramer the most was that the negative commentators did not acknowledge the positive effects of no rate hike, but instead focused on whether the Fed will hike in November or December.
"The hideous declines in these two stocks left me astonished … That is what happens when companies with a long track record of beating the numbers suddenly pre-announce to the downside," Cramer said.
Philippine customs officials were astonished when they opened nicely gift-wrapped boxes of cookies and oatmeal flown in all the way from Poland and found a hair-raising contraband: hundreds of live tarantulas.
One industry source familiar with plane certification said he was "astonished" that Boeing was able to gain FAA approval for the MCAS system with one angle of attack sensor and pilots as backup.
It's really exhilarating to see a presidential nominee with train wreck coming out of his mouth, and people are astonished and shocked by it, and treat it as if it's a haunted house.
"I'm a little astonished at the outrage that I've heard because I didn't hear equal outrage when Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid a foreign spy to gather information from Russia," said Sen.
And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana—so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that's only slightly less awful.
Elites use different words, eat different foods, listen to different music — I was astonished when I learned that people listened to classical music for pleasure — and generally occupy different worlds from America's poor.
Mediaset said in a statement it was astonished by the decision since the first ruling in 2014 had been reached after "a long and in-depth debate" which lasted more than three years.
WASHINGTON — The nation's top intelligence official played down on Saturday his seemingly astonished reaction this week to the news that President Trump planned to invite President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to Washington.
According to the Daily Mail, health officials "were astonished to find a filthy, potato-covered tennis racket in a bowl of boiled spuds" in a "filthy bakery" in the London borough of Enfield.
He astonished the company's board of directors about a year later by presenting a plan to "decarbonize" Duke by 2050, effectively revamping the utility so that it would emit very little carbon dioxide.
The Rays astonished the industry by surging to 90 victories, helped largely by "the opener," a position they created in which the first pitcher of the game works only an inning or two.
When mainstream magazines and book authors now broach a possible end to American democracy, this show returns to its dawn — and evokes the achievement of American self-governance through astonished, worshipful European eyes.
Michael Policar, a Washington State-based wealth manager with HighTower Bellevue, recently documented his experience being on FinTwit after a year and was astonished at the value of the back-and-forth banter.
We know that the picture was painted in the late mornings, after which artist and subject had lunch together; we also know that the subject's wife was astonished at the painter's large appetite.
From the Black Forest in Germany, Anke Bawa, 58, wrote by email: "I was astonished how often people with loss of a loved pets use my service," said Ms. Bawa, another chiengora spinner.
But in that Playwrights Horizons theater, as I vise-gripped my date's arm, I was astonished by the sound — or really, the absence of sound — of roughly 22 people, breath held, just … listening.
A decade ago, the South Korean biologist Hwang Woo-suk astonished the world by reporting in Science that he had cloned a human embryo and had made a stem-cell line from it.
When there's a rainstorm on screen, drops of water fall on my head, and I, astonished, have the only thought a mature person can have: I wonder what they could do with porn?
For more than two hours, astonished lawmakers inside the House of Commons, some of whom had ducked for cover, were told to stay in place as officers searched the premises office by office.
In one of the hearing's iconic moments, Kavanaugh fiercely attacked a female Democratic senator, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who responded not with outrage of her own, but with a calm, if astonished, demeanor.
Yet it astonished me that I did not need post-op pain medication, that the scar was less than two inches long, and that I would soon have full use of my arm.
I was astonished that although many of her words had vanished, she had still found the perfect one to describe the loss of all of her power, control, and pride to this foul disease.
I was astonished: I'd had a problem from the moment I read the story, and had given the story to the counselor immediately, certainly before the three of us ever sat down to talk.
Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the European Commission president said he was "astonished" at Prime Minister Theresa May's inability to get the package agreed with the EU last month through the British parliament.
The doctors who've been treating the little boy who was thrown over a third-floor railing at Minnesota's Mall of America on April 12 are apparently astonished by how well the child is recovering.
"More than a museum, it is an installation whose purpose ... is to shock the spectator, leaving them astonished and preventing them from reasoning," he was quoted as saying in a book published in 2015.
European countries were astonished by the lack of coordination, one senior official of a European G7 country told Reuters, asking not to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
In the aftermath of the deaths of Ms. Gaines, Mr. Sterling and Mr. Castile, I found myself sick with grief and astonished at how little it seemed to affect my white peers and colleagues.
" Peter Robinson, an American lawyer who was Mr. Karadzic's chief legal adviser, said his client "was disappointed and astonished by his conviction and the judges' reasoning, and he asked us to appeal his sentence.
I still sit here as somebody who grew up in the segregated South, sort of astonished at both the progress and the lack of progress, simultaneously and contradictorily, that we've made on civil rights.
Fashion for fat people took off in a huge way, community-style: I remember marveling at the #fatshion tag on Tumblr around 2008, simply astonished to see such beautiful bodies in such beautiful outfits.
The Sanders who astonished the political world with his unprecedented and historic surge of small donors should ask for, and be given, even more donations that will elect liberals to the House and Senate.
Accused of improperly helping himself to Indian treasure Robert Clive, the former commander-in-chief of India, offered a defence worthy of a modern private equity baron: "I stand astonished by my own moderation".
I'll be astonished if there are bipartisan deals on anything important — even on infrastructure, where both sides claim to want action but what the G.O.P. really wants is an excuse to privatize public assets.
In those days — the early 1970s — I was astonished to see Republicans and Democrats publicly say harsh things about the other and then immediately afterward in private see them hugging one another and laughing.
The dismantling of the tax agency unfolded in full view of the astonished country, squandering so much of the public's dwindling trust that officials now wonder how they will be able to restore it.
And when Dark Fate does deign to explain what's going on, it delivers its exposition in a self-important, hushed, clumsy way, as if audiences should be astonished by the most basic plot revelations.
In my time in the jails and prisons in DC and Virginia, I've been astonished by just how many people are locked up for drug crimes or, it's important to note, drug-related ones.
"Anthony and I, I think, represent everybody who went to the racetrack for the first time with their dads and were just astonished by the brilliance of these athletes, these equine athletes," Viola said.
Such was the severity of the meltdown over Brexit that allies and investors were left astonished by a country that was for decades touted as a confident pillar of Western economic and political stability.
Viewed close up, the profusion of life in a few square feet of vegetation astonished me, radically shifting my sense of scale and widening my world beyond the modest familiarities of classroom and home.
When Fenech made his first court appearance, pedestrians were astonished to spot him meandering around Republic Street, smoking nonchalantly in full view of the makeshift shrine to the woman he stands accused of murdering.
With a chemical paint remover, she stripped away layers of paint and was astonished by what she found: a stunning mantel of green and gray slate with hints of pink and carved floral details.
Scrooge is astonished to see men of wealth strutting before their employees in open robes, demanding that employees join them in the bath, and once consorting with a potted plant — in short, having fun.
It's one of the reasons I suggested, back in the show's second season, that it would be a successor to Mad Men, and I'm astonished at how the series hasn't really gone wrong since.
Collywobbles is a popular British term for butterflies in the stomach, chums are friends, clangers are mistakes, a knees-up is a boisterous party, gobsmacked means astonished and blimey is a term of surprise.
I did worry a bit that the edit would be an unintelligible mess, but when we first played it, I think all of us who were standing there watching were astonished by what happened.
Back in 2012, when they pulled into Street 51 for the first time, the other vendors gathered around astonished by the hulk of an oven and the four young men who had built it themselves.
While millions of viewers around the world reacted with shock at the 2017 Academy Awards' Best Picture disaster, a star-studded group tuning in from the Oscars' host city were similarly astonished by the moment.
"It's not just the size of the funds but the velocity" at which VCs are returning to their investors, known as limited partners (or LPs), says an astonished Bill Gurley of the venture firm Benchmark.
" The UVA student recalled the night she met Warmbier at a party and was astonished by his "insane tie collection" – "We clicked instantly and the whirlwind of our growing relationship just took off from there.
As much as I have learned about and seen his work, including a memorable afternoon spent at Little Sparta, I am still astonished at all the different ways he plays with words, typography, and lettering.
Fifty Shades Darker starts where its predecessor left off: Ana, astonished to find that a man who enjoys being a dominant also takes pleasure from the pain he inflicts on his submissives, has left Christian.
The announcement that Osborne will edit the London Evening Standard despite virtually no journalism experience astonished his fellow politicians, and gives a tribune to a rival of Prime Minister Theresa May within her Conservative Party.
And while Cramer was astonished by how many jobs were being created without a serious uptick in inflation, he couldn't get too bullish considering the damage that tariffs could still do to the U.S. economy.
Mr. Branson, who owns and lives on Necker Island in the Caribbean, said he was astonished by the animal life during his visit to the Saudi islands, including manta rays and sea turtles laying eggs.
Future historians will look back on this dangerous period in American politics and find themselves astonished that American journalism, as an institution, did so much to distort the stakes by elevating a fundamentally trivial issue.
And I have been astonished at the amount of sexual harassment, particularly in the workplace where men — usually it's men, sometimes it's women, but usually it's men — use power to force themselves physically on women.
Look at the long-term polling on interracial marriage — an issue on which I have a personal stake — and be astonished at how much raw racism still flourished when, say, Ronald Reagan was elected president.
" Nevertheless, he insisted that at 43 years old "I didn't realize that I could learn so much from a director — I was astonished at the complex understanding and perspective that he had of the characters.
Marybel Batjer, president of the five-member commission, said she was "astonished" at PG&E's lack of modern technology and services, citing the website crashes and communication system failures that added to last week's upheaval.
My sister was gratifyingly astonished that I'd never lost my wallet before, but, as someone who typically has to reconstruct the entire contents of her own several times a year, she was not exactly sympathetic.
After studying the evidence advanced by Stubblefield's attorney in support of her appeal, we are astonished by Judge Teare's refusal to admit evidence that could have exonerated Stubblefield, while admitting contrary evidence from the prosecution.
In an interview after the flight, Mr. Mackay commented on how quickly the sky turned black once the atmosphere faded, and Mr. Masucci said he was astonished by the sight of a very bright moon.
Jess X. Snow, a self-identified queer Asian-American artist, filmmaker and poet, astonished me with a digital wallpaper mural called "Unstoppable by Borders" (2017) of flat fleeing immigrants integrated into a flock of birds.
I never cease to be astonished that when it comes to these basic rights — family-friendly protections that are fundamental to reducing work-life stress — American workers are so far behind their counterparts in other nations.
Many Washington power players have been astonished by the President's frequent defenses of the Russian leader and determination to improve relations with the Kremlin, despite Moscow's turn to Cold War-style confrontational policies in recent years.
Armed with cellphones and social media skills, their challenge to the government has astonished residents who lived through Mr. Ortega's revolution in the 1970s, the civil war in the '80s and the 30 years since then.
Following the Keller incident, for example, she was astonished by the number of peers in the industry who reached out to her with comforting messages of support, but also weren't willing to publicly vouch for her.
A RESTAURANT critic for the New York Times informs us that, on returning to London after a ten-year absence, he was astonished to discover that the local restaurants have moved beyond "porridge and boiled mutton".
TWO decades ago palaeontologists were astonished to discover impressions of feathers in rock around the petrified bones of dinosaurs that had clearly, from the anatomy those bones displayed, been unable to fly when they were alive.
Brooks, who is well-known as Wyatt Spencer on The Bold and the Beautiful, is also elated to enter the world of parenthood and has been astonished at his wife throughout her pregnancy journey thus far.
"I was pretty astonished last week that these stocks traded down when both the Treasury and the Federal Reserve gave them kisses," Cramer said, adding that Bank of America and JPMorgan stood to benefit the most.
But what astonished me is that this Croatian, this Mirko Cro Cop guy, called me the best in the world, a legend in front of me, but behind the computer he's talking a bunch of crap.
Idly, I looked on YouTube and was astonished to find I could watch the same streets, ride the same tram, see the same cars and people and a rainy gray sky, as I did in 0003.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday it was "astonished" at a Reuters report that Iran had moved missiles to Iraq and that the article was "without evidence", but stopped short of denying its contents.
During budget fights, House conservatives watched in astonished fury as Pelosi obtained one concession after the next — like increased spending for community health centers and freezing the number of deportation officers — even after Trump became president.
One British officer who visited the Western Front wrote that he was "astonished to observe German soldiers walking about within rifle range behind their own line," with British troops making no effort to gun them down.
Just after lunch on the first day, Perez was astonished to find the driver backing into a light post, then speeding away from the scene as if the accident hadn't happened, without even checking for damage.
Before the show was added to Disney+ at the beginning of this year, fans were astonished to see that The Proud Family was not among the first wave of throwback films and series on the app.
Traveling across India for a book on small towns, three years after India's economic liberalization started in 1991, I was astonished by how quickly self-perceptions were changing among many middle-class and upper-caste Indians.
Letters To the Editor: Re "Two Ex-Candidates Stuck in Time" (editorial, May 7): I'm astonished that you would equate President Trump's personal attacks on Hillary Clinton with her attacks on his policies, or lack thereof.
Peter Hulit, Los Angeles I remember once visiting a small antiques shop in Swakopmund in Namibia and being astonished to see a great range of Nazi artifacts — copies of "Mein Kampf," Iron Crosses and the like.
That it didn't happen left the civil rights community astonished and the conservative justices fuming; Justice Samuel Alito's dissenting opinion was half again as long as Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion for the 5-to-4 majority.
That it didn't happen left the civil rights community astonished and the conservative justices fuming; Justice Samuel Alito's dissenting opinion was half again as long as Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion for the 5-to-4 majority.
Dukakis wrote, "I felt alive," as if a cloud had lifted — so much so that when Mr. Dukakis picked her up at Massachusetts General Hospital, she astonished him by proposing that they go out to dinner.
I'd gone there to study writing, and I was still reeling at the impossibility of it — still feeling myself an imposter, astonished that someone like me could even begin to think of herself as a writer.
A team of cave rescue specialists were astonished to find the group, severely malnourished but alive, huddled on a water-surrounded incline inside a chamber deep within the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex late Monday.
I found myself searching various platforms for various Tetris editions and trolling the Tetris Wiki, endlessly fascinated by the stick-to-itiveness of this simple game and astonished at what it took for it to get here.
Dario Franceschini said he was astonished by the court's decision to uphold complaints from unsuccessful applicants for some of the 20 directorships that, with great fanfare, were opened for the first time to foreign candidates in 2015.
He could imitate Jacques Brel, with whom he visited bordels, or Edith Piaf, who ran her hand up his thigh when he met her, or Jimi Hendrix, who astonished him by playing his guitar with his teeth.
"The possibility that a mosquito bite during pregnancy could be linked to severe brain abnormalities in newborns alarmed the public and astonished scientists," she told the Assembly, the supreme decision-making body of the WHO, in Geneva.
As a historian, I was always astonished that the people who controlled the internet and built these huge companies could claim that their only desire was to serve the public good, that they had these utopian visions.
Most likely, after a series of such sentences such a judge will be fired because his or her superiors would be astonished that he or she could have accepted a bribe and not shared it with them.
It's impossible not to be astonished by the seemingly supernatural stamina unleashed by the 75-year-old in the midst of his grueling performances, during which he jumps between instruments with the intensity of a man possessed.
To the Editor: Re "The Threat to Gay Americans" (editorial, June 15): In America's paper of record, I'm astonished to see an editorial condemning entire constituencies (Republicans and conservatives) for the atmosphere surrounding the atrocity in Orlando.
Also on Fox Wednesday, Giuliani told an astonished Sean Hannity that Trump had indeed reimbursed Cohen for the payments to Daniels -- and he did so, according to Giuliani, in some peculiar and imprecise series of monthly payments.
In the fall of 19763, a newly discovered video showed a professional football player knocking his fiancée unconscious with a punch to the head, and many people were astonished to learn that she had stayed with him.
Researchers have been astonished to discover that the average mustelid is like a fur-covered furnace, its metabolic rate exceeding not only that of other carnivorous mammals but also that of its twitchy, ever-gnawing rodent prey.
Op-Ed Contributor LONDON — In the early spring of 2014, the world watched, astonished, as soldiers without insignia took over government buildings in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, surrounded Ukrainian military bases and installed new leaders in the region.
In a statement, Fiat Chrysler said it was "astonished" by the lawsuit and suggested that it was timed to disrupt the company's contract negotiations with the U.A.W. and a proposed merger with Peugeot SA, the French automaker.
Should anyone now be astonished that Porzingis, after two seasons of standard Knicks dysfunction, has begun acting out like any American-born prodigy, trying to set the rules in a calculated mind game of truth or consequence?
Fiat Chrysler said it was "astonished" by G.M.'s charges and suggested that they were intended to disrupt a proposed merger with Peugeot SA, which would result in the world's fourth-biggest carmaker (slightly ahead of G.M.).
If Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin astonished people with human bodies turning into floating, meatless rubber sacks, then computational artist Albert Omoss popularized the visual effect with his falling squishy bodies piling on top of each other.
Late that night, Mr. Araud, the French diplomat, was astonished to get a second call from Ms. Rice: The United States would not only support intervention, but wanted United Nations support for more than a no-fly zone.
But it's hard not to be astonished that Trump seems to be softening on gun control at least somewhat, after virulently promoting Second Amendment rights and attacking gun-control advocates from the time he announced his presidential run.
I learned the words "nonbinary" and "genderqueer" and all sorts of new terms, and found people like myself, and just marathon-read Facebook group posts and binge-watched trans and nonbinary YouTube videos and was blown away, astonished.
By the time Your Name reaches its final half-hour or so, the film has moved so far beyond its initial premise that if you think back to the beginning, you'll be astonished by how far it's come.
This was the goal of the summit held in Reykjavik, Iceland, between Reagan and Gorbachev in 1986, when the Soviet leader sprang on an astonished US president a proposal to eliminate all nuclear weapons held by both sides.
"I am astonished that Minnesota Senators are unwilling to even talk about Fair Repair, which has been on the table in Minnesota for three years and was already partially approved by the Environment Committee last year," she said.
"I am astonished with the callous disregard to the interests of the Brain family," he wrote on his Facebook page, accusing the ministry of refusing to recognize the support of the local community and the devolved Scottish government.
We, the audience, are meant to be equal parts astonished and amused by the sight of three moms turning an ordinarily feminine and organized activity -- such as going to the grocery store or shopping mall -- into a Bacchanalia.
"When I first got to visit his personal library... I was astonished to see the depth of American weirdness as documented in rare books," Boo-Hooray curator and Anthology Editions co-founder Johan Kugelberg tells The Creators Project.
My sister was astonished as I related the sordid details of a conversation he had shared with me about sex, girls, his own sexual prowess and what he bragged he could do to young virgins of either gender.
In Lancashire's Gawthorpe Hall, gardeners were astonished to see the geometric patterns of the old ornamental gardens resurface, the land still remembering the patterns taught to it by its Victorian gardener, Sir Charles Barry, long after his death.
No one should be astonished that the bad guys are grizzled old goats, but the younger generation of the species — led by the production's heroine, Gruf — soon learns that preservation of the planet isn't a bridge too far.
"I think my mother would be astonished to know that I gave out cleaning and household advice to millions of people for nine years as a columnist for Family Circle magazine," Ms. Lansky wrote in The Huffington Post.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Fernando Alonso astonished fans and Formula One rivals on Saturday by qualifying seventh for his home Spanish Grand Prix in a McLaren that had been the slowest car on track a day earlier — when actually moving.
Jurors themselves will frequently describe how astonished they were to discover that a defendant who they had seen as a two-dimensional monster transformed into a three-dimensional human being as they heard about his life and childhood.
I saw Sylvester for the first time in his music video for "Mighty Real (You Make Me Feel)" and I was astonished: a brown black man adorned in flamboyant, Studio 54-ready garb making love to the camera.
By now, I've read the books many times to my own children, astonished at how much is in them for my grown-up self — about that growing-up process, and about the times I grew up in, too.
For my entire adult life, I've been astonished at people's inability to consider that, just maybe, a famous person — even one who's famously dated men and seems way too uncool to be queer — could actually be gay or bisexual.
Audio and video clips of the cycle, distributed generously through the installation, open up the memorabilia and scores like air in a balloon, endowing mere paper with reminders of the boldness and loftiness that so astonished Wagner's early audiences.
Sachs reports that, when Toscanini took the Philharmonic on tour in 1930, European audiences and critics were astonished by the virtuoso playing in every section, the evenness of stroke, the dynamics seamlessly matched from one phrase to the next.
When Abbe arrived there, several decades later, he started poking around the depots and was astonished to find that many statues had flecks of color: red pigment on lips, black pigment on coils of hair, mirrorlike gilding on limbs.
Two weeks later, as the city erupted in astonished joy to celebrate the most remarkable championship of the modern era, those behind the scenes at the club were already conscious of the scale of the task that awaited them.
The opposition candidate quits While the high court ruling appeared to offer vindication for Odinga, the opposition leader astonished the country in early October by quitting the re-run scheduled for October 26, citing the IEBC's refusal to reform.
But, even reading White's fiercely disabused history of the period, one can still be astonished by the degree to which liberal institutions worked to curb the worst social sadism that, until then, had been a commonplace of human history.
" Germany astonished EU foreign ministers gathering in Brussels Monday had little good to say about Trump's comments, with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier summing up the reaction among his colleagues and in European capitals as one of "astonishment.
Television news executives today would be astonished by the multitude of viewers who would respond positively to a television news organization they could fully trust, which would lift professional standards and public approval of television news from current levels.
At Mr. Buttigieg's State of the City speech in 2017, she was astonished to hear him cite a longstanding group, the Board of Public Safety, which the mayor appoints, to boast the city now had a citizens' review board.
From there, they swung off into "Perfect Illusion," from Gaga's new album Joanne, and "Bad Romance," where Corden was astonished to learn that the "romama" syllables at the beginning of the song are the beginning of the word romance.
But I am always astonished at the end of October whenever I utter some sad expression of regret about the coming time change in the presence of someone who, it turns out, prefers her light to arrive before breakfast.
Some commentators were astonished that the party's lawmakers rejected her bid to replace Mr. Turnbull, despite polls indicating that she was much more popular with the public than either Mr. Morrison or Peter Dutton, another contender for the leadership.
Fiat Chrysler, headquartered above in Turin, Italy, said it was "astonished" by the lawsuit, which it called "meritless," and suggested the legal filing was meant to disrupt its proposed merger with the maker of Peugeot and Citroën cars. 7.
But Tamara Lui, president of the community organization Chinese in France, said the population had not seen a noticeable change in the security situation, saying she was astonished by the "disproportionate force" used by the police against Mr. Liu.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Two years after launching headfirst into a conflict in Yemen that has no end in sight, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have astonished the world again, this time with a severe boycott of neighboring Qatar.
He was astonished to hear from The Times decades after his groundbreaking work, but was willing to be interviewed at his home, about an hour's drive from a prison where Arizona officials used midazolam for an execution in 2014.
And around myself, when I see that, when I meet high-achieving people, especially executives, I'm always astonished that they are upset about a criticism they've received from someone in the press or the internet or someone, some slight.
Besides other visual artists, the most compelling connection for me is with a contemporaneous poem by John Ashbery, in which Popeye "heaves bolts of loving thunder / At his own astonished becoming" ("Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape," 1927).
On Tuesday, Reeves, who sits on the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, will hear a new challenge from astonished critics who say the Legislature moved brazenly to both disregard his earlier opinion and Supreme Court precedent.
"I want them to be astonished there was ever a time when women were vastly outnumbered in a boardroom or in Congress, that there was ever a time when a woman had never sat in the Oval Office," he said.
Scientists expecting a fuzzier climate-friendly commitment were astonished by the inclusion of the lower target, inserted at the insistence of low-lying island nations for which an additional half a degree could spell doom because of rising sea-levels.
There was no forgetting the charismatic young Swede who had climbed onto cattle trucks bound for Auschwitz, kicked the doors open and handed out his passes, under the rifle fire of the astonished guards, to anyone who could grab one.
IBM's CEO Ginni Rometty is on Donald Trump's advisory council, but I'm still astonished at how they were able to squeeze so many meaningless platitudes into a statement in order to make it the least controversial thing ever written down.
They were absolutely astonished when Senate Republicans took the power struggle to an entirely new level by announcing that they would not even shake hands with a Supreme Court nominee selected by the duly elected president of the United States.
From tracking our spending in Money Diaries to strategizing about how to ask our bosses for that long-overdue salary bump, we're pretty astonished by the way our bank accounts always seem to be at the tops of our minds.
Its rows and columns of rectangles, each containing a one- or two-letter abbreviation of the name of an element, together with its sequential atomic number, represent an order and underlying structure to the universe that would have astonished Lavoisier.
My jaw dropped when I first heard it, and I remain absolutely astonished at how perfectly this Greenland-turned-Australia-based project from multi-instrumentalist Solace has managed to capture the iconic atmosphere of one of metal's most unique entities.
"I was absolutely astonished and down on my knees praying to a higher power that we would hold together," Appel told PEOPLE, describing the way the tiger sharks rammed themselves into her boat in an attempt to knock them over.
And then there was August 6, 2000, which witnessed the release of "210 Seconds" (the designated time for each MC to get their lyrics out), the tune that brought So Solid Crew from their south London heartlands to an astonished mainstream.
"We were astonished by the hideous act of the Entertainment Authority, by these events held in Jeddah that are not in line with good behavior or our great religion," Hussein Al-Sheikh, the imam of the Prophet's Mosque, posted on Twitter.
Yet even my readers who are the most cynical about and politically depressed by the corruption of the system should be be astonished and amazed by the potential lasting impact for good that the Sanders campaign has now brought within reach.
People on the set were astonished, they'd never seen such a heartfelt film and [had] this realization that a women like Ida Lupino was trying to make a movie like this in 1950, way before anybody was talking about it.
"We were astonished, appalled and also saddened," said Patti Rundall, the policy director of the British advocacy group Baby Milk Action, who has attended meetings of the assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization, since the late 1980s.
When approaching this roller coaster, it's hard not to be astonished by its look: With a wispy flat yellow track that twists and turns through the sky in all kinds of iterations, it really does evoke Wonder Woman's lasso of truth.
In 50 years, medical students may be astonished to discover how doctors faced the coronavirus without knowing the basics of its virology that they may readily have at their fingertips, just as I wondered at how doctors before me combated HIV.
Last week, many people were astonished to hear that Dr. Kurt Kloss, an emergency room physician in New York, reached out to a Facebook group for some 20,000 of his colleagues seeking advice about how to handle the coronavirus outbreak.
"If there's one thing a judge needs, that is autonomy from the political establishment," said Margarita Stolbizer, a former lawmaker in Argentina and prominent activist against graft who said she was astonished by Mr. Moro's decision to join Mr. Bolsonaro's cabinet.
Coats was being interviewed on stage at a security conference in July when he seemed astonished as host Andrea Mitchell, of NBC, told him the White House planned to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington in the coming months.
"I am always astonished by the amount of rot talked about Gordonstoun and the careless use of ancient clichés used to describe it," he said in a 1975 speech to the House of Lords, almost a decade after he left the school.
In a recent meeting at SXSW with a top-3 consumer-device manufacturer keenly interested in the research market, we were astonished to find how low-resolution their basic understanding is of the requirements for the collection of data in clinical trials.
"I was always astonished about how he drove up to UCLA every day and then had time to spend time with his family and coach [his son's] baseball team," she says of the El Segundo resident, who served as a Little League coach.
GENEVA (Reuters) - China accused the European Union on Tuesday of risking a return to the "law of the jungle", telling a dispute hearing at the World Trade Organization that it was astonished by what it called the EU's disregard for the WTO's rulebook.
Corbyn and his fellow radical members of parliament were barely tolerated by the rest of their parliamentary colleagues, yet when he ran for Labour's leadership in 2015, a sudden swell of support from mainly young party members propelled him, astonished, to the leadership.
"And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana—so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that's only slightly less awful," Sessions said in a speech on Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia.
"Taylor is actually extremely lucky that this abnormality in her spinal cord hasn't caused her to lose movement in her legs, her bladder, or anywhere else," Dr. Lee explains, astonished that Taylor has gone 22 years without having this condition properly diagnosed.
When protests began in December 2018 over the ongoing economic crisis, Sarah and the Sudanese Professionals Association—a collection of labor unions without a formal leader—insisted on nonviolence, leading to an unprecedentedly peaceful and effective set of protests that astonished the world.
Havel, who had spent much of the previous decade in a communist dungeon and whose last arrest as a dissident had been a mere four months before, was quite astonished to find himself president of anything, much less the country of his oppressors.
At the meeting, Trump reportedly astonished military leaders by saying he wanted to rebuild the nation's nuclear stockpile to its peak level of the late 1960s—a tenfold increase that would violate international agreements the U.S. has adhered to since the 1980s.
I was astonished and, yes, frightened, when a prize-winning 3D artist at the esteemed Ars Electronica media festival in Linz won with an image of a half-naked woman clamped to a motorcycle with the tail pipe emerging from her anus.
" Upon becoming attorney general, he's only continued such outlandish attacks, stating "I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana — so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that's only slightly less awful.
I was astonished by how much of the larger meaning of my "Far From the Tree" could be packed into just six stories, and by how much less proof was needed to underscore a point when the audience can witness the stories unfolding.
Poring over the piles of material they found in their searches, investigators were astonished to discover that for 20 years, Mr. Martin, known as Hal, had been carrying classified material out of the N.S.A. and other security agencies where he had worked.
"At Seven a Son" (212), for instance, described a boy on a swing: as he flies up (his hair like long black leaves) he lies back freely astonished in sunshine as serious as a stranger he is a bird in his own thought.
But still, the motion-captured, digitally sculpted apes are so natural, so expressive, so beautifully integrated into their environment, that you almost forget to be astonished by the nuances of thought and emotion that flicker across their faces, often seen in close-up.
After stem cells healed his mother's horrible hand burn and even her arthritis, John Kosolcharoen, a Southern Californian entrepreneur, was so astonished by its restorative power that he decided to build his own start-up around the concept and called it Liveyon.
Researchers lately have been astonished to discover that some of the world's largest and most valuable diamonds, which can sell for hundreds of millions of dollars, originated 250 miles or more below the surface, twice the depths previously estimated for Earth's diamond nurseries.
Andy Rubin famously revamped Android's launch plan when we saw the original iPhone presentation: Rubin was so astonished by what Jobs was unveiling that, on his way to a meeting, he had his driver pull over so that he could finish watching the webcast.
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru got the Pan Am Games off to a dream start on Saturday, taking gold in both the men's and women's marathon to leave an astonished nation in an unfamiliar spot — top of the medal table ahead of the mighty United States.
When I contacted Riske, advising him that his testimony would be required in yet another O.J. Simpson trial, he was astonished when I suggested that he meet me at the 875 South Bundy crime scene so that we could walk through the scene together.
The families who took her on as a live-in nanny were astonished by the hundreds of boxes that arrived with her and went into their garages, and they worried that the newspapers she piled up in her room could be a fire hazard.
When Jana Hensel, a writer, recently gave a talk to a school in her home town of Leipzig, she was astonished to find herself spending half an hour fielding questions from teenagers about an Ossiquote (a proposal to give east Germans preference in public jobs).
McRaven were drafted to run for governor of Texas, the political world will be astonished and amazed by the excitement he would generate, the enthusiasm he would inspire, the workers he would motivate, the donations he would attract and the support he would receive.
Ms Pierotti Lim of Republican Women for Progress remembers campaigning in Wisconsin and Michigan in 2016 and being astonished by the number of older women who were afraid to even talk to her and who let their (Republican-voting) husbands fill in their ballots.
In interviews, lawyers who have tangled with Mr. Trump in court cases are sometimes reduced to sputtering, astonished rage, calling him "borderline pathological" and "the Michelangelo of deception" as they attempt to describe the ease with which Mr. Trump weaves his own versions of reality.
Daniel Cao, a fourth-year university student in Shanghai said he was initially "astonished" that the constitution could be "changed so easily", and shared the concerns of others online that China would return to an era of cult of personality and one-man rule.
I wondered whether there might be people, strangers he had met on business trips, say, bellhops or stewardesses or conference attendees, to whom he also showed only this face, and who would therefore be astonished by the expression of disdain we knew so well.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads To look at early-20th century artists' conceptualizations of machines and technology is to be astonished, in a very particular way, by how thoroughly transformative the shift from mechanical to digital has been for humans' connection with the world.
I once had a 14-year-old tell me they were a poly-pansexual and while I wanted to be like, "Sure, Jan," I was more astonished that there was language so readily available to welcome her into herself and her li'l kingdom of love.
When I spent a winter there to make this short film, I was astonished by the conditions: Pregnant cows would wander off alone to give birth and drop their babies into freezing ice, and calves would shiver as they struggled to survive their first night.
"I was astonished, not because it is so good but because it is so bad," said Donald K. Grayson, an archaeologist at the University of Washington, who faulted the new study for failing to rule out more mundane explanations for markings on the bones.
But the young "are not meant to tarry" in Oak Hill, and Saunders's three main characters are astonished to find Willie continuing to sit "cross-legged on the roof" of his own tomb, refusing to depart, awaiting another visit and tender touch from his father.
Charles M. Blow I continue to be astonished that not enough Americans are sufficiently alarmed and abashed by the dangerous idiocies that continue to usher forth from the mouth of the man who will on Friday be inaugurated as president of the United States.
Turkish leaders said they were astonished that they had so far been unsuccessful in persuading the United States Justice Department to even ask a federal judge to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric living in Pennsylvania whom the Turkish government blames for plotting the coup.
I am interested, intrigued, astonished and — frankly — happy that Leaf made these works during periods dominated by Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Color Field painting, Conceptual Art, the "death" of painting, the Pictures Generation and postmodern copying, and never once did she seem to notice.
It was the first of countless nights I'd spend crammed into the living rooms, basements, and storefronts that are the architecture of the Chicago underground art scene, and the first of many nights that I'd be astonished by the generous spirit of the people who comprise it.
In a statement, Cifog said it was "astonished that an elected member of the Republic should pull such a publicity stunt by choosing an American actress from the 1980s to condemn the production of one of the jewels of French gastronomy and culture," reports The Guardian.
She cites some of them in her book: Jesus being astonished by the faith of a Roman centurion who wanted his servant healed; the Samaritan leper who impressed Jesus with his gratitude; the Syrophoenician woman whose wit and love for her daughter caught Jesus by surprise.
The Patriarchate of Constantinople, which enjoys the "primacy of honour" in the eastern Christian world and has worked hard to convene the council said it was astonished by these last-minute objections and insisted that the council would go ahead as planned; people could save their objections.
MERE WEEKS AGO, a man challenging his own surveillance under FISA was astonished to learn at his trial that appeals court judges were called into a secret meeting by government attorneys to discuss his case and that he nor his attorney would be allowed to attend.
Much as I was taken aback a year ago as the travel ban case was argued, during argument day for the census case I was astonished to hear the solicitor general insist that the question's addition was intended to facilitate enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.
In a referendum on Friday, the once deeply Catholic nation voted to scrap a prohibition on abortion by a margin of two-to-one, a landslide victory that astonished campaigners as citizens of every age and background demanded the change they had spent decades fighting for.
At heart, he is as much of an unapologetic geek as any of his admirers, as astonished by the circumstances that brought "Star Wars" into his life as he is grateful that he gets to return to its galaxy of long ago and far, far away.
But time and again, we've been heartened, cheered, inspired and, sometimes, astonished by a new generation of innovative female singers and musicians — punk in style or spirit, and coming from the all-ages warehouse and D.I.Y.-venue ecosystem — singing about tactile emotion, rousing politics and far more.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has labored zealously to cut federal regulations, but its latest move has still astonished some experts on health care: It has asked for recommendations to relax rules that prohibit kickbacks and other payments intended to influence care for people on Medicare or Medicaid.
Charles M. Blow Last week, when voters in Montana elected Greg Gianforte to fill the state's lone seat in the House of Representatives, even after he was recorded in a physical altercation with a reporter, many Americans — like me — were left to look on in astonished bewilderment.
"We are astonished that no one in the WH has even bothered to consult with [redacted] despite the fact that the three of us have written more on the voter fraud issue than anyone in the country on our side of the political aisle," the email reads.
BERLIN — Volkswagen's former chief executive, Martin Winterkorn, yielded no ground on Thursday during a polite grilling by German lawmakers over the carmaker's diesel-emissions deception, but he astonished them by insisting that he had not heard the term "defeat device" before September 0003, when the scandal broke.
"Even though his IQ was approximately 60, his common sense, his theological depth, his delight for life, and his unfeigned love for God, his family, and absolutely everyone constantly astonished us all," Franks wrote in the Washington Examiner about his brother, Bruce, who died earlier this year.
So he was astonished when Alderson asked him questions, one after another, on many of the topics that were in his memo, including how Callaway would communicate with players and how he planned to balance his players' desires with what the organization wanted them to do.
"Charlie Chaplin's Own Story," Charlie Chaplin I was astonished to realize, relatively recently, that Charlie Chaplin had been a homeless teenager before he became the most famous film artist of his time — and that his character the Little Tramp was based, in part, on his past.
Seefried says she was astonished last year when a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, speaking at a forum at the state Capitol, made the same slippery-slope argument against banking marijuana that is often made against smoking it: It would lead to banking cocaine, heroin and so on.
North Korean athletes and cheerleaders attended the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang; South Korean officials went to Pyongyang and met the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un. However, when Mr Kim suggested on March 6th that talks might lead to him giving up his nuclear weapons, diplomats were astonished.
" It is not a lie, — Reinhard Bütikofer (@bueti)November 2, 2016 European Green Party member Reinhard Bütikofer, who serves on the European Parliament from Germany, told me some of Stein's remarks that Clinton would be more likely to start a nuclear war than Trump left him feeling "really astonished.
Even my most cynical readers should be be astonished and amazed by the degree to which the Democratic establishment and the media establishment are resistant to facts that are proven by the Sanders campaign and the degree to which they are intimidated by the implications of these facts.
At a hearing last week, Ms. Hernandez was astonished when the company's lawyer argued that her mother could urinate or defecate in a "pull-up" diaper and wait in a chair for two or three hours until a family member could leave work and come to change her.
More than a thousand miles away, at Iowa State University, Alex Stein, a 19-year-old sophomore, was astonished and a little freaked out when the teachers and teaching assistants all wore gloves as they handed out a test on Tuesday night in his mechanics of fluids class.
Bell expresses the sweetness of the new relationship, as she finds joy in touching her partner's thigh under a table while surrounded by friends, and is astonished by a question of how many times they have kissed ("It would never occur to me to think in math like that").

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