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- noun Plural form of
astonishment .
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Examples
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Your only defense is that the audience, the person with whom you're having this conversation, is with any luck being struck by astonishments of his own.
Archive 2010-05-01 Megan Kurashige 2010
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But taken together, these films add progressive social values to what DeMille had already accomplished with the stylistic astonishments of The Cheat, The Whispering Chorus, and a half dozen other small gems that exemplified what critic Dave Kehr would call his “great formal inventiveness.”
Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010
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Everywhere she looked she discovered new wonders, new astonishments.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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A pretty girl—truth be told, virtually any kind of girl—in a drinking establishment was one of the astonishments of Prohibition, a shock both severe and enduring.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Everywhere she looked she discovered new wonders, new astonishments.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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Von Sternberg never again found his footing in the movie industry, although the uncut version of his 1941 film " The Shanghai Gesture " has its share of astonishments.
The Unhappiest Man in Hollywood Scott Eyman 2010
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Kathe did something so surprising and hilarious that I remember it as one of the great "perfect astonishments" ever.
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Kathe did something so surprising and hilarious that I remember it as one of the great "perfect astonishments" ever.
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Kathe did something so surprising and hilarious that I remember it as one of the great "perfect astonishments" ever.
July 2010 2010
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Everywhere she looked she discovered new wonders, new astonishments.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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