Meaning of unastonishing | Babel Free

Definitions

Not astonishing.

Examples

“The Samaritan woman went out that day, as she had, in all probability, myriad times before, to draw⟳ water: an unexciting, unastonishing event, that drawing of water;”

“With the emergence of a professionalized, academic class of philosophers, in close⟳ contact⟳ with one another’s thoughts and meeting regularly throughout the world for interchange of ideas, it is equally unastonishing that philosophers should by this time have⟳ banded together in closed cliques—analysts on one side, phenomenologists on another; pragmatists here, and existentialists here; and hostile subdivisions within these unarmed camps, aiming verbal barrages at one another.”

“This leads me to the unastonishing prediction that the STM alone would work⟳ very poorly for syllabisation, because it will not learn⟳ from the corpus, but only from the prefix of each utterance as it proceeds.”

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