The phrase "astonishment for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to express surprise or shock towards something. Example: Much to my astonishment, the underdog team won the championship.
The late Hadid's work might have long been a source of astonishment, for its sci-fi forms and gravity-defying structural feats, but now she's gone, her practice is prompting incredulity for a very different reason.
Actually, there was one orchestra member onstage -- Davyd Booth, a violinist and pianist, turning pages for Mr. Sawallisch -- who later vouched, with astonishment, for the note-perfection of the performance.
Warner reserves much of her astonishment for the amoral food technologists she meets, many of whom decline to eat their own products, which include the much-discussed processed cheese, white bread, soybean oil (extremely complicated, but let's just say that once you read about it you'll stop buying it) and breakfast cereal.
I speak as someone who hadn't won much in the past, yet at the end of 2011 I was one of the winners of the i newspaper's cartoon idol competition, which landed me a regular job for the paper, as well as Political Cartoon of the Year, to my astonishment, for a piece I had done for the Guardian.
The trial was abandoned, partly because the killings were proving hard to pin on those at the top, and partly because Honecker was dying, while Erich Mielke complained that he could not follow the proceedings.Mr Mielke was put on trial again, this time, to many people's astonishment, for murders he had been involved in back in 1931, in the days before Hitler came to power.
Admiring but never cringing, fully aware that his exposition of Britain's partial democracy will prompt interest and perhaps envy in the Iran of the divine right of kings, he reserves his greatest astonishment for the ability of a single artisan, "a poor man, with a shop", to postpone the building of Regent Street by refusing to sell his freehold to make way for the thoroughfare.
Though he keeps his selections secret until show time, there are always a few astonishments for the cognoscenti, as well as copious pleasures for newcomers.
But if you love the natural world for its astonishments, for something as obvious but thrilling as the huge variety of shapes that birds and their parts have evolved, then "The Unfeathered Bird" won't disappoint.
Restaurateurs and their lawyers are entitled to their astonishment, since for the past year or so they have suffered the lengthiest liquor license application delays in memory — from six to eight months, and even longer.
In another signal that a new Cambodia may be emerging, one foreign aid official noted with astonishment that, for the first time in 30 or 40 years, it is possible to travel safely -- at least in daytime and avoiding mine fields -- to every corner of the country.
The Republican nominee's capacity for astonishment is matched by his capacity for astonishing.
