Sentence examples similar to a complete astonishment from inspiring English sources

The editor who commissioned it was fired, to his complete astonishment, by a widely detested colleague at The New Press whom he'd never been informed was actually his boss.

One thing that makes Hawke so appealing as an actor is his ability to express complete astonishment at how quickly and irreversibly things have gone south.

But more than any of this, to my complete astonishment, I found I ended up wishing I was at work.

That is why most other fields make progress while the alcohol and drug field stumbles from crisis to crisis with each crisis greeted with complete astonishment.

His complete astonishment upon discovering that both his mentors, Barry McGuigan and his son Shane, were teetotal was such that he genuinely seemed to be only half-joking as he castigated the latter for never giving the electric soup a sporting chance.

To my complete astonishment the solution was staring me in my face.

In complete astonishment of the situation, I found myself photographing the hole where my foot went in, realizing later just how chilling that moment really was for me.

Finally: "She could feel herself becoming a pure astonishment".

It sailed wide left — missing the protective netting — to the astonishment of 74,511 fans even though the flags atop the goal posts revealed a complete lack of wind.

Should one attempt a complete front-to-back reading, the result would be a thorough grounding in Shakespeare's work and an enlarged astonishment at the range of his imagination.

A surge of emotion welled up inside me — a mix of utter astonishment, joy and pride.