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Example sentences for: astonish

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The single-mindedness--OK, fanaticism--of the supply-siders who helped orchestrate the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s never fails to astonish.
But we gradually realize that this Nora, in fact, is playing the role that's expected of her--merely "playing tricks," as she says in the last act--and that there's another Nora beneath the childlike silliness that will astonish even her.