Examples of astonishment

• The speed with which the requests from famous persons were treated can provoke nothing but astonishment.

• If this sounds like pre-modern defeatism, it also indicates a way forward to the modern sublime in which astonishment forces a recoil to rational analysis.

• The astonishment he professed was pure theatre for the record.

• These are people just discovering the nature of the entrapment of their world on film, and often their fascinated, gawping astonishment is all too evident.

• To my astonishment, the judges did not agree with me.

• He shared his astonishment with many of his colleagues.

• One might feel astonishment, perhaps awe before the whole, panentheistically qualified.

• These anecdotes provoked gratifying looks of astonishment and plenty of questions as to who exactly was paying for this stuff.