The phrase "astonishment about" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe a feeling or state of being surprised or amazed by something. Example: "There was an air of astonishment about the room as the magician pulled a rabbit out of his hat."
Wilson spoke with some astonishment about the fact that she could include a gay secondary character in "Ms. Marvel"—the blond, popular Zoe and still have mothers and daughters show up to her readings in hijabs.
But the moment I asked in astonishment about the Nato parallel, he launched into a speech about the right of Muslims to have a nuclear bomb.
"It was only through the Italian press that I learned of the astonishment about this here in Scotland," said the Juventus manager, Antonio Conte.
There is an astonishment about the discovery of a markedly romantic background for Angelo to inhabit, as if we had suddenly skidded backwards into Twelfth Night.
Every Super Bowl party includes that handful of people who try to coax the rest of the room into joining them in their astonishment about the price of this year's ads.
Bankers in Spain did not want to comment for the record on an issue under judicial investigation, but many expressed astonishment about accusations that Mr. Botín was linked to the undeclared Swiss accounts in the HSBC file.
Scholem writes in response to Adorno's astonishment (Erstaunen) about the relationship of kabbalistic writings—seemingly one of the most Jewish of Jewish literatures, as it were, or as Scholem put it, "originellstes Produkt jüdischen Denkens"—to the Neoplatonic gnostic tradition.
Again we're astonished — there is something naïve about astonishment in such circumstances.
In his first book, "It Takes a Worried Man," Mr. Halpin wrote with impossible spark and astonishment about the roller-coaster experience of coming to grips with his wife's cancer diagnosis and treatment.
(Brecht described this as "stripping an event of its self-evident, familiar, obvious quality and creating a sense of astonishment and curiosity about [it]".) Wood laughs off the comparison but agrees their techniques aren't dissimilar.
Mr. Bush, speaking with reporters today in Kennebunkport, expressed astonishment when told about the tests.
