At the former, astonishing bursts of oratory were heard; at the latter, everything was boldly attempted, from Romeo and Juliet to Mother Goose's immortal melodies.

In a flash of motion, it crabbed down the casing, grabbed the large human, and, with an astonishing burst of strength, dragged Bigelow out of sight behind the end of the reactor.

There are moments in art history when astonishing bursts of creativity seem to explode over a city or small region, producing a stream of masterpieces that change the way humanity understands itself and the world.

As he aged, and even as his mental condition deteriorated, he became a more sophisticated manipulator of music designs, but his music was never to revisit these astonishing bursts of lyrical invention.

I clench my fists; an astonishing burst of rage explodes in me.

The first version of the play - then entitled The Turbin Brothers - was written between 1920 and 1921 in an astonishing burst of creativity that also saw the composition of four other plays.

In the final quarter mile he produced what the Glasgow Herald described as "an astonishing burst of speed" to come from well off the pace and take the lead inside the final furlong.

But the two men held the Tsubasa fast to its course, and with an astonishing burst of speed, the Bujun craft continued to slice through the whirling maelstrom before them.

In an astonishing burst of enthusiasm for biotech last year, 60 such companies raised a total of $3.7 billion in the public equity market.

It was a natural reaction, and it added up to the most astonishing burst of predictive energy most of us have ever witnessed.