Sentences with phrase «of amazement at»

The feeling of amazement at a new climate or wondrous vista only lasts a few moments before the journey once more becomes mundane.

Not only does one need a travelogue writer's skills just to describe the scene, the sense of amazement at experiencing a well - crafted virtual reality can be a very emotional moment for which words ought to fail.

Made up of 5 different continents, each with their own unique biome, Xenoblade Chronicles X is comprised of beautiful vistas, diverse life, and futuristic robots known as Skells, which will leave you full of amazement at a number of points through the game.

The stories in Dogwalker are narrated with surreal tranquility, with a pronounced lack of amazement at life's vicissitudes and an affable acceptance of its strangest circumstances.

In Jason Osder's bleak, infuriating documentary Let The Fire Burn there's a feeling of amazement at what he and editor Nels Bangerter have achieved through their self - imposed limitations.

The father in my workshop told of his amazement at seeing many children there who had barely enough to eat, few clothes, no shoes, no toys, and yet were some of the happiest children he had ever seen.

Psalm 150, the last psalm in the book, is an exuberant expression of amazement at God's goodness.

Not exact matches

After the announcement was made, amazement at the number of cash ricocheted across social media, with many noting the different things that number could buy.

Personal feats of superhuman dedication are reported with wide - eyed amazement (here's Marissa Mayer on her 130 - hour weeks at a young Google).

Growth groups are described in these pages with enthusiasm born of frequent amazement at their positive influence on others and with gratitude for the help these groups have provided in my own struggle to keep growing.

I suspect that it derives from an observation found at the end of his collection of anecdotes titled From My African Notebooks, where he expresses his amazement at the great contrasts between Europe and Africa.

What stands out in Luke are the depth of his human sympathies, his sense of wonder, amazement, and joy at the power of the gospel, his poetic insight which led him not only to tell the Christmas story in a way that captivates old and young alike after nineteen centuries, but also to incorporate such lovely poems as the «Magnificat» of Mary, Zachariah's «Benedictus,» and Simeon's «Nunc Dimittis.»

The revelatory character of sacred writings results essentially from their powerful exemplification of the first two fundamentals of religious experience: In the first place, there is the marked element of surprise, of wonder and amazement at the new and wholly unexpected things that have come to pass (e.g., deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt or from Babylon, the sense of a living presence among the disciples who had witnessed Jesus» crucifixion).

But anyone who knows the history of theology and of the Church's doctrinal pronouncements will be filled with amazement at the fact that it was accepted by the Council without the slightest remark.

I pause in amazement, gaze at the deep, dark waters of the Black Sea, close my eyes, and silently pay homage to the birthplace of Russian civilization.

This is going on in a part of the world you probably didn't even know existed before reading this article, and would probably will never visit anyway, out of fear that your boat might take a wrong turn and fall off the edge of the «flat» earth on the way over (I'm assuming that if you intend to fly over, you'll just end up spending the entire the entire time at your local airport staring in amazement at the moving sidewalk).

I am on more solid ground to look at these two events, especially the events in the District, and sit at amazement of the Power of God.

We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions of amazement (tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment) at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos — a little mould on a grain of dust.

To Luther's amazement, Erasmus when he was dying did not ask for the last sacrament, but his heir, who was with Erasmus at his death said, «As was his life, so was the death of this most upright of men.

I've had the privilege of a front - row seat and have watched with amazement at how God has weaved his tapestry of worship across our church streams.

A recent show featured Sharmeta Lovely a victim of rape, whom Oprah had interviewed ten years earlier, Oprah expressed amazement at Lovely's stated willingness to sit down to dinner with her assailant.

One time I was driving very slowly with my oldest living brother Through an arboretum he loves, where there are ponds and foxes And owls and kingfishers, and all sorts of other holy amazements, And I asked him what was up with his wicked cancers, how much Pain was he in and what were his chances and what new medicine Could he take a stab at; questions with hooks and bristles on them.

If you all remember Wenger often benched Dennis Bergkamp in his final year (s) to the amazement of pundits at the time.

The American sports fandom paradigm of our time is that of derision, amazement, and laughter in all its forms, and all at once.

While Leicester received a setback to their ever Premier League title dreams as the Saints made them to see the reality that, to win the title when Arsenal are contending for it is a mountainous climb too difficult for them to climb as the Saints hammered them 0 - 2 at their King Power Stadium to the amazement of Sir, Alex Ferguson.

A mid-table finish would appear the likely destination of Fulham at the end of the season, with the Cottagers neither here nor there with regards to standard of their performances, while early results would indicate that Mark Hughes, despite doing his best to retain Fulham's dogged qualities which were instilled by former boss Roy Hodgson, who was undoubtedly the most successful manager the club ever had in the Premier League, that Fulham will struggle to win matches this season let alone the hearts of the entire nation as they did last season when Hodgson guided an average English team to the finals of the Europa League to the amazement of a nation and a continent.

It's no longer news that the Euro 2016 was an epic tale of anguish, failure and disappointment for the big names in Europe as an obscure team, which found it difficult acing their games both at the group stages and the knockout phase came out of obscurity against all prevailing odds to lift the most prestigious trophy in all of Europe to the amazement of all eyes.

As I watched Sweetness tossing small rocks at a piece of driftwood next to her to hear the funky hollow thunk sound and Mr. Man play with sticks in wide - eyed amazement, I started to think of all I'd learned about positive discipline and what this mom could do differently.

Three hours later, realize that you have no idea what happened on that show (or any of the other shows you just watched), but you're back to staring in amazement at your baby's face as he sleeps.

Each of the few times I've opened up the hive, the time spent has been a little bit longer as I peek around with such curiosity and amazement at what they're doing.

At any given moment, you might be feeling overjoyed by the amazement and wonder of the small people growing in your home.

Amazement at the victory of the Leave campaign is all the more resonant because it reflects such a stark contrast with what came before.

The founder who appeared well composed and spirited for the occasion, eased tension at the place with his fatherly advice and admonishment to the amazement of his party folks.

Within a day, there were 400 comments — a lot at the time — many of them professing amazement that campaign staffers were actually responding.

So there was total amazement in the Foreign Office state room when Brad Klapper of Associated Press, the first American to ask Boris Johnson a question at his joint press conference with US secretary of state John Kerry, went for the jugular.

Cuomo's loudly professed amazement at built - in budget boosters was greeted with laughter by the Albany Establishment: Of course Cuomo, who'd been around state government much of his adult life, knew how the sausage got madOf course Cuomo, who'd been around state government much of his adult life, knew how the sausage got madof his adult life, knew how the sausage got made.

Tourists watched in amazement as the hordes of marchers past through Times Square at around 2 p.m. taking photos and cheering on the protesters.

For him, he continued, the trail of research that led to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — the epochal advance that earned him the prize — began with his amazement at a photograph of a Drosophila (fruit fly) with a leg emerging from its eye.

Cosmic Coincidence Einstein once wrote that for a scientist, «religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law» and that «this feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work.»

With my daughter on my lap, we sat with curiosity and amazement for a while just wow» ing away at the incredible birdseye views ~ kind of appreciating daddy's skydiving hobby;) Machu Picchu is on our wish list to see ever since I started to walk again ~ I have the urge to climb / hike and just walk barefoot (when possible) on this earth...;)

At events, I could be seen scraping the avocado off of passed - appetizers to the amazement of my fellow guests.

By the time I came back to the beginning of my walk I glanced at the racks again and to my amazement I saw this little number hanging there all by itself.

I am always in amazement at how much importance people place on the concept of «trust» in a relationship, yet rarely do they take proactive steps to validate that the person is trustworthy from the beginning, in the dating stages.

The best way to process it may be as unintended camp, rolling your eyes in amazement at its litany of misery and heaps of histrionics.

Cody tends to write characters that are what the science - fiction fans call «a Mary Sue» — meaning an awesomely idealized version of the writer, so brilliant that the other characters sort of gaze in amazement at her.

At a dance she meets an Italian boy, Tony (Emory Chen), a plumber who courts her and introduces her to spaghetti — which she deftly handles back at the boardinghouse to the amazement of the young women who live therAt a dance she meets an Italian boy, Tony (Emory Chen), a plumber who courts her and introduces her to spaghetti — which she deftly handles back at the boardinghouse to the amazement of the young women who live therat the boardinghouse to the amazement of the young women who live there.

Her terror, as she hides amid the pulp of a snozzcumber, is palpable, while her amazement at The BFG's heartfelt work rivals his concern for her safety.

Cody tends to write characters that are what the science - fiction fans call «a Mary Sue» — meaning an awesomely idealized version of the writer, so brilliant that the other characters sort of gaze in amazement at her.Tully has some of the narcissism seen in Juno and their follow - up, Young Adult, but there's also some unusually raw material, acted by Charlize Theron with barely smothered fury.»

Also speaking about the experience of having «Megan Leavey's World Premiere at Yankee Stadium, Common expressed his amazement over the experience.

After Gamby gets chastised by the teachers for helping Russell keep his job — the students looking on in amazement as the teachers fling insults and curse words at each other is a great comedic touch — the episode becomes an avalanche of events that lead to the aforementioned fight through the school.