Sentence examples for Absolute astonishment from inspiring English sources
I thought back many years, to the look of absolute astonishment and delight on the face of my son Peter the first time he tasted chocolate cake.
So imagine my delight, my absolute astonishment, when the hokey chick flick came out on the trail, a Cinderella story so preposterous it's hard to believe it's not premiering on Lifetime.
They awoke startled in their temporary bunks and watched in absolute astonishment as cops swept through several shelters and arrested 129 men and women who had outstanding warrants for such dire offenses as -- get this -- relieving themselves in public, drinking beer in the open air, trespassing.
Mr Darling's most striking answer was the "absolute astonishment" he felt when he asked Britain's largest banks to account for the risks contained in their businesses - and they were unable to come up with a coherent answer.
"And somebody told me I was nominated for an Oscar, and I remember my absolute astonishment, it was so far out of my expectation". When receiving her Golden Globe Award last month, Close said on stage: "I'm so honoured to be with my category sisters.
For a podged out, dad-shorted reviewer bred on tent burning at T in the Park, it was an absolute astonishment.
Eventually, a small video company called Nelson Entertainment bought the film for peanuts and made – to the astonishment of everyone involved – an absolute fortune out of it.
During the last 70 years the outside world has periodically taken notice, in sorrow at the Bend's absolute poverty during the 1930's or astonishment at its resilience and creativity, only to forget about it after a while, the outside world being fickle.
"Stupor is plainly a different thing from tremor; it signifies blank wonder, an astonishment that strikes us dumb, amazement absolute" (p. 26).
The sense of an appropriate ending -- the painting reminds her of Cuba, an island on which Maria, to the astonishment of her family, has recently passed intoxicating holidays, dancing, flirting, strolling by the sea at sunrise -- is absolute.
