... of light on a pond. Rather than standing above to judge, the perceiver is drawn into the ordinary scene. Tracing echoes of that initial exclamation throughout the novel, the chapter argues that at such moments of ineloquent astonishment, the Proustian beholder enjoys the world in its commonplace...

...This chapter examines occult practices in terms of the metaphysical pleasures they provide by focusing on the domain of leisure and play. It first considers metaphysical pleasure arising from wonder and astonishment, with particular emphasis on how these emotions, typically known through...

... of his most striking phrases of astonishment. Finally, it explores two hallmarks of Wordsworth's poetic originality: the anecdote of ordinary experience and the representation of subjective states of feeling, or what Wordsworth called “moods of my own mind.” Alighieri Dante Coleridge Samuel Taylor...

...This chapter examines the philosophical concept of wonder. Wonder has two senses. For one, it can suggest marvel or awe, the kind one might experience in astonishment or worship. But for another, it can mean puzzlement or logical perplexity. From a philosophical viewpoint, it is tempting...

...This chapter examines Isaac’s synthetic account of wonder and astonishment, which makes use of all the source material discussed in the previous three chapters. According to Isaac, the human soul is capable of processing material sensations with temporal reasoning, but it cannot process spiritual...

... they will begin again the monotony of work or the vagrancy of unemployment. The world remains unchanged when the young seamstress leaves the Saint-Simonian preaching session, to which she had gone ‘to find a bit of droll amusement’ and from which she returned ‘filled with admiration and astonishment...

... a man’s fist could pass. To general astonishment the victim did not die, but because he was not strong enough to work, the authorities at the trading post, unwilling to support an invalid, resolved to send him home to Canada. Beaumont doubted whether St Martin would survive the journey of 2,000 miles...

...0 07 03 1991 “Goon news at last, Dora Going out into the world is like learning to swim. They say that if you put an egg at the bottom of the water and try to get down to it you will be surprised to find how difficult it will be. Now, I have been letting myself go, and to my astonishment I have...

...0 02 05 2004 The immediate, general reaction as the facts of what happened on Sept. 11 became known was one of utter astonishment. Most people in the United States and more generally in the Western world find it impossible to understand the motives and purposes that drove the perpetrators...

... of, that I stood lost between astonishment and admiration. I had heard talk of the glorious deeds of our admirals and sailors, of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and of all those memorable combats, that good and true Englishmen never fail to relate to their children about a hundred times a year. The brave...

...0 26 08 1999 It is a source of continuing astonishment for me that such a small percentage of even my soundest opinions command widespread assent. Indeed, my only source of solace in this is the knowledge that most others experience life in similar ways and thus must confront daily...

... for surprise; that he is interested not only in the narrative mechanism of surprise but also its rhetoric; and that in representing moments of astonishment, Fielding nostalgically harks back to the instantaneity of theatrical spectacle, even as he develops techniques that anticipate the narrative innovations...

... on meeting Peter Brook and his involvement in Valley of Astonishment 20 years after L’Homme Qui. Ian’s continuing vulnerability is revealed in a short narrative about what happened when the lights went out one night, while he considers the effects of aging when meeting...

...The conception and development of wonder and astonishment is one of Isaac’s most influential contributions to Syriac theology. The conclusion briefly points to areas where further study will reveal the depth of influence that Isaac’s use of the terms wonder and astonishment have had on later Syriac...

...-where’s the patient?’’ A Gary Larson cartoon shows a body part flying through the air from the direction of a patient’s open incision. A member of the surgical team, agape with astonishment, shouts, ‘‘Watch where that thing lands ... we may need it later!’’ A popular film, ‘‘The Doctor,’’ opens...

...0 01 09 2009 Surprise, astonishment Elevation of the eyebrows Opening the mouth Protrusion of the lips Gestures accompanying surprise Admiration Fear Terror Erection of the hair Contraction of the platysma muscle Dilatation of the pupils Horror Conclusion. Attention, if sudden and close...

...0 20 01 2005 At the beginning of a new century, I confess to a feeling of astonishment that we are still talking about the utility, or otherwise, of the concept of ‘the’ Mediterranean. I do not mean that I am astonished to find that the Mediterranean Sea is still there, although the ecological...

...0 07 03 1991 Though Sarah’s new whim to go to place excited so much astonishment, she knew that she had the entire approval of both father and mother. It was their teaching, probably, that had unconsciously led her to take it. They were not obliged to send her out to maintain herself...

... astonishment at winning, and ambivalence bordering on contempt. The prize, he said, has “lost much of the prestige it still carries in other fields,” because “most of the country’s greatest musical minds” are ignored, “often in favor of academy composers.” He specified the Pulitzer’s neglect of mavericks...

...This chapter shows that Isaac derives his conceptual framework for the concept of ecstasy, along with the technical terms wonder and astonishment, from sources that were originally written in Syriac. In particular, both Ephrem and John the Solitary situate wonder and astonishment within...