Occasionally the combination of 19th-century nostalgia and 20th-century composition coalesces into astonishing pictures.

"He used to come into class with astonishing pictures from Mars," Mr. Nye recalled.

Among the most astonishing pictures in this retrospective is a reworking of the old master genre.

It does this, moreover, in terms of astonishing pictures, many of them either known only to the specialist or transformed by recent cleaning.

The growing light developed an astonishing picture.

There exists an astonishing picture of Jacques, as a small child, which is not in the present volume.

He soon ceased to notice; he was after information, and the smooth, flowing text and astonishing pictures made it easy to acquire.

A phrase can paint an astonishing picture for the reader.

He skimmed over the astonishing pictures and maps, read their captions.

To complete the astonishing picture, a great black falcon swooped low over the rider, gliding in a circle about him.