astonishes

What always astonishes me about your letters is their length My God, their length!

"Even today, the story of my father and my mother, while giving me much pain, astonishes me still," Blouin said.

Perry “could take a straight line of dialogue and bend it to your will, resulting in something so entirely original and unexpectedly funny it still astonishes,” Schwimmer wrote.

What astonishes here is the ease with which he emotionally opens himself up to Juliet, only to realize too late that the options available to this couple are running out.

Matt Wolf, reviewing that production for The New York Times, said that Keen “astonishes throughout.”