The phrase "astonishing words" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe words or phrases that are surprising or impressive in their impact or meaning.
Example: "The poet's astonishing words left the audience in awe, capturing the essence of human emotion beautifully."
Alternatives: "remarkable phrases" or "incredible expressions".
The stranger at the other end of the line repeats his astonishing words.
The man who read a dictionary as a child and obsessively filled notebooks with astonishing words couldn't write.
He walked up to Keith's model one of five competing designs and uttered three terse, astonishing words: "That's the car".
Like many of you, since Election Night I have found myself frequently moved by the new reality we live in, now that the astonishing words "President-elect Barack Obama" have become commonplace in our media.
.our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil". Astonishing words -- imaginable, perhaps, only from an American president, leading a people given naturally in times of crisis to enlisting national power in the cause of universal redemption.
Astonishing words from one of the 20th Century's most iconic writers and poets.
In Glasgow, it is astonishing watching words on a page come alive with talented actors.
My husband had suggested the phrases — "amazing" and "astonishing" being words that can be construed to mean almost anything.
"At the time, it was really just us," says Robin. "It was known that watching the Fantastic Four, if you blink your eye, you're gonna miss something". Fab 5 Freddy agrees: "Every time you'd watch them it was astonishing". "The word hip-hop was not even in the lexicon," Freddie says.
But his fame rests on a project he described, in a letter to a friend on 30 September 1934, as "merely astonishing": to write – word for word, line for line – Cervantes's Don Quixote, a classic of European literature that occupies a place in the Spanish-speaking world equivalent to Shakespeare.
Nearly everyone who met Kirk Varnedoe felt his volubility, the sometimes astonishing flow of words and ideas at his command.
