The phrase "astonishing recognition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a surprising or impressive acknowledgment or realization, often in contexts related to achievements or discoveries.
Example: "The scientist received astonishing recognition for her groundbreaking research in renewable energy."
Alternatives: "remarkable acknowledgment" or "incredible realization."
But Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," a work so real and realistic that it continually gives the reader astonishing moments of recognition, contains considerably more than its main love story.
Faversham Road, Seasalter, Whitstable, Kent, 01227 273370 I've been going to the Sportsman for years, before any of the current brigade of gushing fanboys had ever heard of it, before the Michelin recognition – astonishing for what has always been, as they describe themselves, a "grotty rundown pub by the sea".
But for Star and Buc Wild, being on the air less than two months, the recognition is astonishing.
A blue plaque will be unveiled in honour of the Manchester-born author Anthony Burgess, the first public recognition of his astonishing literary success.
He wrote, in an introduction to one of his books, that his poetry was "based on a recognition of the astonishing beauty of things and their living wholeness, and on a rational acceptance of the fact that mankind is neither central nor important in the universe".
I'm grateful for this clarification; in a way, I'm sorry to hear it, because it means that this astonishing movie indeed didn't get the recognition that it deserves.
However, as I was about to give up and accept my ignorance, I came across this astonishing piece in the Times from last year, about facial recognition skills among crows in Seattle.
Chinese palaeontologists have taken firm control of their own backyard; and it is the astonishing discoveries they have made there that have done most to fuel the recognition that birds properly rank as avian dinosaurs.
Their recognition as the cellular source of myofibroblasts characterizing hepatic fibrosis has launched an era of astonishing progress in understanding the mechanistic basis of hepatic fibrosis progression and regression during chronic inflammatory diseases of the liver (Reeves and Friedman 2002; Atzori et al. 2009).
People strive for recognition and then, once they've achieved that goal, can use their eminence as a way of astonishing followers with their down-to-earthness.
