bashō

What is it about that word? Every time he hears it, he points it out to me. Stunning attack, stunning blow, stunning comeback, stunning defeat, stunning effort, stunning failure, stunning garden, stunning home, stunning impact, stunning jewelry, stunning kindness, stunning love, stunning moon, stunning nightmare, stunning observation, stunning progress, stunning quiet, stunning revelation, stunning sky, stunning trouble, stunning upset, stunning victory, stunning wind, stunning X-ray, stunning yield, stunning zinger. Eventually all the nouns, especially those proper nouns, seem to fade; ‘stunning’ tends to linger.

at break-of-day
abuzz with stunning chatter
a bed of pansies