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The word "amazing" functions as a versatile tool to convey astonishment, wonder, and even irony throughout literary works. It is employed to underscore moments of extraordinary achievement or unexpected events, as when a character experiences the most amazing sensation of self-determination ([1]) or when a society is marveled at for its recurrent natural beauty ([2]). In some works, the adjective accentuates both the marvel of human endeavors, such as an amazing system of industries ([3]), and the humorous or critical observation of human nature, as when a character is noted for amazing self-conceit ([4]). At times, it even lends a physical quality to the narrative, like describing walls of amazing thickness ([5]) or capturing the astonishing speed of a guillemot ([6]). Through such varied uses—from emotional and descriptive to ironic and critical—the term enriches the reader’s experience by highlighting the extraordinariness of both events and characters ([7], [8], [9]).
  1. The sensation of giving orders, of controlling my destiny, was the most amazing thing I'd ever felt.
    — from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  2. All their lives they had seen, year by year, the amazing recurrent spectacle of April in the gardens, and custom had made it invisible to them.
    — from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
  3. From this assured and permanent advantage, against which artificial conditions cannot much longer prevail, has grown an amazing system of industries.
    — from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein
  4. "His petitions to the municipal council", writes M. Bermann [66] , "are amazing examples of measureless self-conceit and the boldest greed.
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  5. The surrounding walls, of amazing thickness, kept off all sounds behind them.
    — from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
  6. The speed with which the guillemot cuts the water is truly amazing.
    — from Little Folks (September 1884) by Various
  7. “Upon my integrity!” exclaimed the incredulous doctor, “this is very amazing and extraordinary!
    — from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. Smollett
  8. It was an amazing spectacle this, of dead men dragged out to battle, and corpses mustered to fight.
    — from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
  9. In the first place, the amount of butter, and Texel and Leyden cheese consumed, seems amazing.
    — from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

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