"astounding" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective which means "very surprising and impressive". Example sentence: The teacher was astounded by the student's impressive test score.
Were it in Britain, the wildflower meadow by my house would be charged with riotous assembly: self-heal, marjoram, borage, restharrow, oxeye daisies, mallows, clovers, poppies, vetches, astounding in their abundance and colour as hay-harvest approaches.
Fewer Indians and Coloureds have been showing up to vote, indicating that many have not found a political home.The astounding success of a recent song about Koos de la Rey, a famous Boer general during the war against the British, is raising many eyebrows.
This comes across strongly, for example, in the brief descriptions of a group of children who scan the skies for aeroplanes, convinced, after the event, that the twin towers still stand but will be levelled in a further terrorist atrocity.Such passages are astounding.
Mr Murakami, who has an 11.9% stake in Tokyo Style, is urging other shareholders to back a measure that, by Japanese standards, seems astounding.
That means Fiat-Chrysler has the means to move production wherever it is cheapest.This is a good job: the productivity gap between Fiat's Italian factories and its foreign operations is astounding.
Just how spendthrift it was, though, how disorganised, how riven with backbiting and indecision, and how thoroughly hamstrung by the enduring psychodrama of the Clinton marriage and its bimbo eruptions, is astounding.
MPs have attacked the charity watchdog for its "astounding" failure to close down a fake charity that gave just 3p out every £100 of donations to good causes.
Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter.
Although Ziggy's behaviour is astounding, it certainly rings true.
But at least part of the appeal of this story is that it offers an astounding, even a unique exception, one that allows people around the world to think about miners without feeling a bit uncomfortable or even guilty.
I'll leave it to others to comment on the astounding abdication of cultural responsibility implicit in this statement.
