North Korea is "a garrison state of astonishing proportions," he said.

Stirner's influence in modern Germany has assumed astonishing proportions, and moves in general parallel with that of Nietzsche.

Mayor Ropo took us to the beach and showed us a stone egg of astonishing proportions.

An astonishing proportion of them appeared to be wounded there were splinted legs, arms in slings and bandaged heads everywhere.

"The affair of the presidential ears reaches astonishing proportions without gaining in clarity," Le Monde declares in a front-page article on Friday.

Vulcan enmity toward neighboring tribes, states, and nations passed out of legend into epic; their wars escalated with time and technology to astonishing proportions.

Marcus had succumbed to a fever that the physician said entered his head through the broken bone of his hand, which swelled to astonishing proportions as it was strapped and splinted.

Six Nauruan weightlifters, an astonishing proportion of the country's population, won medals at the 2002 Games.

Three hours later, she located Kong, an aptly named mixed breed of astonishing proportions, snoozing in the storeroom of a shop on Fisherman's Wharf.

And an astonishing proportion of the things it had to sell tourists were actually worth the money.