The phrase "astonishing surprise" is correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The magician's final trick left the audience in an astonishing surprise as a live rabbit appeared out of an empty top hat.
"That would come as an astonishing surprise to anyone who ever worked for me," Mr. Clinton said.
[E1.] Escapism and Fantasy Lift Ratings In what executives at every network described as an astonishing surprise, a two-hour concert by Michael Jackson on CBS attracted more than 26 million viewers on Tuesday.
By the time the next installment — called "Seven Plus Seven" — loomed, the director of "7 Up" had left Granada and Apted had become a director himself, so he took on the task).... Nice surprises like this have come with greater frequency as the children have grown up, but the first truly astonishing surprise is in "42 Up".
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Updated at 10.37am BST 10.29am BST 10 things we've learnt from the Conservative conference We have not heard from David Cameron yet but, unless he springs an astonishing surprise, the key messages from the conference are already clear.
In what executives at every network -- including CBS -- described as an astonishing surprise, especially given what many had assumed was waning public support for Mr. Jackson's music, the two-hour concert attracted more than 26 million viewers and reached younger viewers in staggering numbers that CBS almost never achieves.
I was somewhat skeptical when PR maven Caroline Graham invited me to join a lead architect and landscape designer of the new Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge, promising me it would be an astonishing surprise.
One of the astonishing surprises about Nothing was the way it juggled content and form in such a distinctive and mature way for a young company.
This is both Hugh Raffles's epigraph and the last line of his miraculous book "Insectopedia," as inventive and wide ranging and full of astonishing surprises as the vast insect world itself.
We're living during a time when astonishing surprises are materializing at an ever-increasing rate.
It was an astonishing stroke that surprised the Sri Lankans and got his innings going.
Nolte emitted an astonishing squeal of pain and surprise.
