It is really about theatrical proxemics ; about the show-within-a-show and the spontaneous, visceral reactions of people being astonished.

This astonished many people, including Emperor Meiji, who asked Yamamoto why Tōgō was appointed.

His supposed racial identity seems to be a secret that he abhors as well as cherishes ; he often willingly tells people that he is black, as he seems to enjoy their astonished, pitying, or hate-filled reactions.

In that situation the intervention of the people of Cava de ' Tirreni, a city close to Sarno, was fundamental: in fact Cavesi, led by the captains Giosuè and Marino Longo, armed themselves with breathless haste at best, with forks, other improvised items and weapons, and attacked Angevins who, astonished by the event and unable to assess the entity of the attack, were forced to pull back, giving the possibility to King Ferdinand of Aragon to create an escape route to Naples.

When the people of the household saw him, they were astonished to see that Koan had fur covering much of his body, along with a fox's tail.

Samuel Morse was astonished to learn that Daguerreotypes of the streets of Paris did not show any people, horses or vehicles, until he realized that due to the long exposure times all moving objects became invisible.

Columnist Avelino de Almeida of O Século ( Portugal's most influential newspaper, which was pro-government in policy and avowedly anti-clerical ), reported the following: " Before the astonished eyes of the crowd, whose aspect was biblical as they stood bare-headed, eagerly searching the sky, the sun trembled, made sudden incredible movements outside all cosmic laws-the sun ' danced ' according to the typical expression of the people.

Arriving at Hy-Brasil, Erik and crew are astonished to find it a sunlit land whose people are friendly ( if musically untalented ).

It is the failure of the screenwriter -- Mr. Foote himself -- to clarify why the object of the woman's deep affection is as badly mixed-up as he is and why the woman, who seems a sensible person, doesn't make a single move to straighten him out ... Granting that the wife is astonished and distressingly mystified at the neurotic behavior of her husband, this doesn't mean that the viewer is satisfied to be kept in the dark as to the reasons for the stark and macabre goings-on ... As it is, we only see that these two people are frustrated and heart-broken by something that's bigger than the both of them.

Its founders would have been astonished at its progress as BoB ’ s total business crossed 2. 09 lakh crores, its branches crossed 1000, and its global customer base exceeded 29 million people.

That neolithic people with such primitive flint tools quarried, carved, transported uphill, and erected these massive pillars has astonished the archaeological world, and must have required a staggering amount of manpower and labor.

The British, who had long ceased to take the authority of the Mughal Emperor seriously were astonished at how the ordinary people responded to Zafar's call for war.

Whether or not it actually happened, the film undoubtedly astonished people in the audience who were unaccustomed to the amazingly realistic illusions created by moving pictures.

Hannah was astonished, as she, like most people back in Amsterdam, believed the Franks had escaped to Switzerland.

Ultimately — at the point in the song where the word " escape " is repeated — she peeks through a gate, astonished, then runs through it to join a group of " bee people " of all shapes and sizes dancing joyfully in a green field.

He is further astonished by how all the people in the cabin randomly switch personalities en masse from time to time.

The Selimiye did not only amazed the public with the extravagant symmetrical exterior, it had also astonished the people with the plain symmetrical interior for it had summarized all Ottoman architectural thinking in one simple pure form.

He came to central Havana when he was 37 years old and was astonished by the level of violence but also by the energy of the people who lived there.

Kitty is astonished in how many times they " change partners " and is happy to have the people to care for, although she is not fond with the drama of having all of Eric's friends hang out at her house.

The astonished people then heard the village clock chiming twelve and realised that the main clock in the house had been put forward by ten minutes.

Gallagher informs the astonished LAPD detectives of DeVries ' brutality and lack of regard for human life: on the way from Seattle, within a span of only two weeks, DeVries has robbed eight banks, six supermarkets, four jewelry stores and a candy shop, wounded 23 people and murdered 12 ; six of them were mutilated with a butcher knife and two victims were children.

When she returns to the rowboat, she is met with astonished suspicion as few people in Connecticut could swim so well.

Another variant of the scam, dating back to circa 1830, appears very similar to what is passed via email today: "' Sir, you will be doubtlessly be astonished to be receiving a letter from a person unknown to you, who is about to ask a favour from you.

Young Kamal Haasan strode up the stairway to ask the noisemaker not to shout over the phone as someone was ill, leaving the person astonished.

The young Kamal Haasan strode up the stairway to ask the noisemaker not to shout over the phone as someone was ill, leaving the person astonished.

There were some aberrations in Elisabeth's diet that appear to be signs of binge eating, On one occasion in 1878 the Empress astonished her travelling companions when she unexpectedly visited a restaurant incognito, where she drank champagne, ate a broiled chicken, an Italian salad, and finished with a " considerable quantity of cake ".

Here the " red-coats " made their first appearance on a continental battlefield, under the leadership of Sir William Lockhart, Cromwell's ambassador at Paris, and astonished both armies by the stubborn fierceness of their assaults, for they were the products of the English Civil War, where passions ran higher and the determination to win rested on deeper foundations than in the deterioration of the feudal spirit in which they now figured after decades of war had sapped the main parties of all belief.

Judge Horton heard arguments on the motion for new trial in the Limestone County Court House in Athens, Alabama, where he read his decision to the astonished defense and a furious Knight: Horton ordered a new trial — the fourth for Patterson.

Bringing it over near the window, where the dummy is, to get a better look at it, Sylvius and Merton are astonished when the waxen figure turns round, snatches the diamond, and points a revolver at them.

It was a dangerous region, where Morès had met his death ; General Leclerc was astonished at the order, and, having heard from Picquart the cause of his disgrace, forbade him to go farther than Gabes.

A defensive arrangement was complete by noon ; but the troops were astonished to hear nothing in the direction of Major Ludlow's post ; where, indeed, every thing was over some time before Major Richards arrived at his ground.

An inflamed and astonished Welsh reaction to these events is found in the contemporary poem, Armes Prydein, where the last independent king of Cornwall, reputably King Howel, was said to lament:

Lestrade, and Watson too, are also quite astonished at what happens next: the very much still living Mr. Oldacre emerges from a hidden chamber at the end of a hallway — where Holmes has deduced it must be — and runs to escape the fire.

" We should not be astonished if in the cases where we see an inferiority complex we find a superiority complex more or less hidden.

Luckily for the newcomers, Wilhelm Loewenthal, a Rumanian doctor from the University of Berlin, specializing in bacteriology, who had been hired in Paris by the Argentine government for a scientific mission and also asked by the A. I. U. to keep an eye on the Weser immigrants, traveled to Palacios Train Station where he was astonished by the miserable living conditions of the immigrants.

The area's residents are astonished when he lands via parachute upon the town square ; a female piglet called Gig tells him where he now is.

Many a sheltered scholar would have been astonished at the Cimmerian's linguistic abilities, for he had experienced many adventures where knowledge of a strange language had meant the difference between life and death.

Before the astonished friend could object, Himber steered him into a clothier's shop where an exact copy of the coat was waiting-paid for ahead of time by Himber himself.

Yousef Karami was titled as the most talented sportsman in Taekwondo by the Korea head coach due to his brilliant performance in the 2003 world championship, where he astonished everyone.

The judgment of Severus himself is no doubt that which he puts in the mouth of his interlocutor Posthumianus: " I am astonished that one and the same man could have so far differed from himself that in the approved portion of his works he has no equal since the apostles, while in that portion for which he is justly blamed it is proved that no man has committed more unseemly errors.

In the unfamiliar setting of a Presbyterian church, of all places, I had been moved to astonished tears which came from so deep inside me that to this day I have never fathomed them, I wanted to learn more about the source of those tears and the object of that astonishment.

The folly and absurdity of the Queen in allowing this trumpery must strike every sensible and well-thinking mind, and I am astonished the ministers themselves do not insist on her at least going to Osborne during the Exhibition, as no human being can possibly answer for what may occur on the occasion.

' I have to tell you ,' said their spokesman, ' that we were astonished to find after reading all the newspapers and watching TV, that all the opinions on all the vital issues were by and large, the same.

" I was astonished, for example, at the decidedly gay atmosphere in Hanoi's Reunification Park on a Sunday afternoon [...] I honestly did not have the impression they were discussing socialism or the ' American aggressors ' [...] I saw quite a few patriotic posters crudely ' improved ' with erotic graffiti and sketches.

Questioned about some of the large sums of money he had received while in India, Clive pointed out that they were not contrary to accepted company practice, and defended his behavior by stating " I stand astonished at my own moderation " given opportunities for greater gain.

' In all my fifty years of public service ,' he told the astonished diplomats, ' I have never seen such a document that was more crowded with infamous falsehood and distortion.

Talking of his home life, he continues " I'm astonished to think that, apart from some Catholic Truth Society pamphlets, some books on saints, there were, essentially, no books in the house, except one set, the Junior World Encyclopaedia, which I certainly read again and again.

At a meeting to solve the problem of command, Stilwell, under intense pressure from the Admiral Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Commander of SEAC, astonished everyone by saying " I am prepared to come under General Slim's commanding Fourteenth Army operational control until I get to Kamaing ".

I was particularly astonished by the variables labelled Nonrenewable Resources and Pollution.

When he appears unharmed, an astonished Superman exclaims " I-I thought I was the only man who could fly !!

* The Alpine Fortress " grew into so exaggerated a scheme that I am astonished we could have believed it as innocently as we did.

In Sefer Haoth Abulafia describes a similar episode, but from an explicit self-perspective :" I saw a man coming from the west with a great army, the number of the warriors of his camp being twenty-two thousand men And when I saw his face in the sight, I was astonished, and my heart trembled within me, and I left my place and I longed for it to call upon the name of God to help me, but that thing evaded my spirit.

Rubinstein was astonished, saying " I could never play that ... never at that tempo.

At a meeting to sort out the operational chain of command for the three fronts in Burma, Stilwell astonished everyone by saying " I am prepared to come under General Slim's operational control until I get to Kamaing ".