Sentences with phrase «thing of amazement»

And, while her postbaby figure is a thing of amazement, it was her shimmering gray smoky eyes that stole the show.

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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.

It is cause for both amazement and gratitude that, in a century when the promise of Europe migrated to a New World which, or so we are told, offers the prospect of the nearest thing there has ever been to a universal history of freedom and justice, Abraham Lincoln was President of these United States of America.

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).

Well the Tories have been doing the same thing for almost a quarter of a century now and yet still they stand back in amazement when the opinion polls refuse to budge.

«If President Buhari will lead the ship in 2019, it must be democratically done, and I said, democratically done, transparently (done) to the amazement of the whole world, the way we do our things in APC and people will be happy.»

«That's how you can go from a lab experiment a cubic millimeter in size to saying sweeping things like, «The whole process of differentiation and core formation wrapped up very fast in geologic terms, taking only a few million years,»» he says with a lingering flutter of amazement in his voice.

He sings to let her know he's there, to stay anchored to the earth, to keep from laughing or crying in amazement that he is lying with Alice in his arms, he sings as if music could keep her alive, as if music could feed her soul, as if music could weave a protective spell around her to survive these days and these weeks and these months and these years, he sings as if he could give her a piece of himself, which will ring inside of her like a bell, like a promise, like hope whenever she needs him; and in his singing, he promises her every single thing he can think of, and more.

Wonderful things often come from the most unexpected of places and, in this particular case, my sense of amazement came from a short but unbelievably beautiful game called AER: Memories of Old.

Around 1990, just 12 years old, I was getting to and participating in environmental discussions (children's summits and Austrian national TV shows offering teenagers a chance to give speeches and discuss ethical issues on live television), going to Germany to the Children's Summit in 1991, organized by the magazine «natur»; in 1992 I tried to make it to Rio, and the feeling around then was one of urgency, public support, amazement and hopefulness about the young people who were going to change things.

One thing that can be a constant source of amazement for people in their 40s, is the fact that term life insurance is not all that much more expensive than it was when they were in their 30s.