Sentence examples for astonishment it from inspiring English sources

Thanks to all this hard graft (luckily, Ehrenreich, the daughter of a copper miner, is a stubborn old boot), what started out as an article was soon a book, Nickel and Dimed - and, to its author's astonishment, it has taken America by storm, rushing up the New York Times bestseller list.

To our astonishment it had a completely different type of microbial mat growing at its bottom.

He brokered the deal, and to my astonishment it worked.

She reaches the car, she pulls at the door, and, to her astonishment, it opens.

A few months later, to our astonishment, it won first prize at Venice.

To his astonishment, it was the same troupe he had seen as a child.

Yet, he says, he read it with appalled astonishment because it seemed to be describing a camp entirely different from the one where he had suffered.

A year ago, they took another look at it and found to their astonishment that it had all but disappeared.

I was drawn there this time around by astonishment that it was still open and intense curiosity about what it had become, about the temperature of a paradigmatic hot spot once the sun had stopped shining on it.

There was genuine astonishment that it didn't go wrong, rather than an affirmation of our confidence in it.

The film was an astonishment, and it was doomed.