astonish
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And then came Ms. Chang’s astonishing bestseller—part memoir, part history—to throw a hard light on it all.
And the restoration is astonishing, the black-and-white photography rendered with a vivid immediacy that amplifies the film’s feverish, unnerving atmosphere.
The number is even more astonishing when one realizes that the program offered just one renowned composer and nothing that could be termed popular repertory.
But the most astonishing thing isn’t that Cignetti has turned the Hoosiers into a powerhouse.
“Around this ‘ticker’ gathered and grouped a knot of eager, nervous, and anxious men,” wrote an astonished observer in 1880.
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