The phrase "astounding debut" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an impressive or remarkable first performance or introduction, often in the context of art, literature, or entertainment.
Example: "The young actress received rave reviews for her astounding debut in the lead role of the new play."
Alternatives: "remarkable debut" or "impressive debut".
It was only in comparison with Fitzgerald's astounding debut that it seemed to fail.
Yet the performance of the afternoon was Tiler Peck's astounding debut in Balanchine's "Tarantella".
The Age of Miracles is an astounding debut that makes you believe that you are involved in the story.
Set within the oppressive confines of a corrupt high school for the deaf, Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpitskiy's astounding debut presents its signed exchanges untranslated, yet you'd be surprised how swiftly comprehension arrives in this complex, chilling moral tale.
Helped along by Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey, the unknown actors speak in an array of Hispanic, Caribbean and black American voices, with an astounding debut performance of Gabourey Sidibe, who plays Precious Jones, pregnant at 16 with her second child by her father, HIV positive, very overweight, struggling against her abusive mother, and somehow able to make her own life.
The optimism sparked by an ever rising stock market, a raft of successful initial public offerings, such as LinkedIn's astounding debut and continuing strength in manufacturing, may be distracting us from growing evidence of a summer global slowdown.
Both Price and Italian tenor Franco Corelli debuted together and Irene Dalis and Robert Merrill (in astounding voice) completed the quartet of soloists.
Get Away from Me - her astounding 2004 debut, believed to be the first double-disc introduction to any jazz singer - upended the norms of piano-backed jazz with tempestuous bits of reggae and rock, bursts of hip-hop and pop, and a seamless merger of musical erudition and thematic irreverence.
Keith Cameron Palace Brothers There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You (1993) Will Oldham's unnerving, fragile debut revealed his astounding lyrical gift and his preoccupation with darkness, lust and sin.
Armitstead enjoyed an astounding track World Cup Series debut, winning three golds (points race, scratch & team pursuit) at the Manchester event in 2008.
"For a debut novel it was astounding," said novelist and judge Ann Cleeves.
