The phrase "astounding event" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an event that is surprising or remarkable in nature.
Example: "The discovery of the ancient ruins was an astounding event that captivated historians and archaeologists alike."
Alternatives: "remarkable occurrence" or "extraordinary incident."
Anything that increases access to this astounding event helps art.
FR Burrow, a famous Wimbledon referee, described this game as the most astounding event in his time at the championships.
Thought by historians to be the earliest brushes with abstraction by an American painter, these works are rarely exhibited, making this show of 32 (of about 100) an astounding event.
She said she was "looking forward very much [to] an astounding event pulled off in short space!", praising the organisers for pulling the whole event together in little more than six months.
The election of Barack Obama as President could mean that all of us in the United States belong to the Greatest Generation now, and though this astounding event seems to have happened all of a sudden, for some people my age it wasn't soon enough.
In "V," as the most astounding event in human history is unfolding largely off screen, we watch a mother racing across town to find her son; a man buying an engagement ring; detectives squabbling; a priest (Joel Gretsch of "The 4400") having a crisis of faith.
The recent astounding events -- the government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Treasury's investments in private banks, the stock market's wild swings -- have thrust us into fierce debate.
June 4 , 1989 was the day of Solidarity's overwhelming victory in (still nominally Communist) Poland's first (more or less) free legislative election, touching off a cascade of astounding events, including, of course, the fall of the Wall.
I can never find a boring or uninteresting moment in The Goblet of Fire and I never get sick of reading it again and again as it's so easy to lose myself in Harry Potter with the astounding events and distinctive characters.
"Roots" was surely, as the historian Willie Lee Rose commented, "the most astounding cultural event of the American Bicentennial". Yet because of almost immediate challenges to the book's veracity, it was a triumph Haley had little time to savor.
The astounding result: they do.
