Sentence examples for astonishment on from inspiring English sources

And one can only imagine his astonishment on Tuesday night, when the G.O.P. respondents to his speech each played Jimmy Carter to his Reagan by offering a grim double-feature of malaise and American decline.

All of this continued a trend that has been seen for years, provoking a generalized sense of grief and astonishment on editorial pages, where pundits competed with one another to outdo their criticisms of the Spanish educational system.

This spring, when she took over two programs of the Russian National Orchestra on short notice in Boca Raton, Fla., Joshua Bell, the soloist in one of them, is said to have expressed astonishment on learning that it had been her first go at the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.

Mr. Blank is "astonished" to discover his desk chair has wheels, and experiences "immense astonishment" on finding his room has an en-suite bathroom, so is clearly in no state to cope with any kind of excursion.

Just then Mike fell, with a look of astonishment on his face.

He read English at Cambridge, and looks back now with "astonishment" on the boy he was.

To my astonishment, one rejected me on the grounds of being overly personable.

One of several second-half reaction shots of an astonished Rick Adelman, the Kings' coach, who is capable of great facial astonishment, flashed on the screen.

Open-mouthed astonishment registered on some of the faces at street level.

First astonishment comes on the way from Soroti to the Amref (African Medical Research Foundation) project office in Katine, a distance I now know is 19km (about 12 miles).

Each year the parliament rubber-stamps them just the same.Hence the astonishment when on December 17th the parliament, angered by some ill-conceived prodding from the commission, voted to reject the accounts for 1996.