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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.»
Every time I
tell something
of my personal story, I find to my
amazement that others mention with great feeling that they too have experienced something analogous and that my story has helped them see what has happened to them.
It «clicked» with our 2 1/2 year old son by the end
of the first day, much to our
amazement as the only form
of potty training before this was begging him to
tell us when he need to go and in return getting a firm «NO».
I thought America was a country where everyone traveled around, but to my
amazement, a lot
of the people I met
told me they had never driven more than 10 miles from their town.
European negotiators had not been
told of the deal, and shortly after it had been made other countries watched in
amazement as a posse
of eight British delegates, headed by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, stormed across the hall to confront the US delegates.
However, as I stood on the side
of the road watching this parade
of fear - based talk, researchers
telling us more research is needed, and advertisements
of the latest brain health panacea, I felt, based on my reading
of research studies that can be found in any average medical library where, much to my
amazement and frustration, few besides me tend to go, something was missing.
«The students really appreciate being able to move around, and they watch in
amazement as some
of their peers choose and justify their — to them — bizarre selections,» she
told Education World.
It is,
of course, true that benchmark scores do not always
tell the full story, but in this case, we have to take them at face value if only because
of the sheer jump
amazement that they induce.