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1. This is astonishing.
2. His logic possesses astonishing clearness.
3. The astonishing blow finished the match.
4. It's astonishing, the size of his head.
5. It was completely astonishing, as you would expect.
6. The skyscraper's elevators ascend at an astonishing rate of speed.
7. It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.
8. I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.