we went all the way from miraculous to absurd

Another word for that is astonishing 

or astounding, remarkable or marvelous. 

 

It's also slightly startling, which leads to 

shocking and upsetting, perhaps a bit 

 

disquieting, and that is troubling and 

distressing—you could say outrageous 

 

and deplorable, which leads to wicked 

and more precise equations such as 

 

sinful and immoral or just plain bad 

and wrong. It's amazing, which is just to say 

 

bewildering and unexpected, that 

it happened out of the blue, and that we went 

 

all the way from miraculous to absurd, 

within the syllables of just one word. 

 

[Joyce Sutphen {1949- } 'Its Amazing', from Modern Love & Other Myths]