The phrase "astounding gift" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a gift that is remarkably impressive or surprising in its value or significance.
Example: "Her birthday surprise was an astounding gift that left everyone speechless."
Alternatives: "incredible present" or "amazing gift."
But most important is McCarthy's grand style, his astounding gift for language.
In a Dazed & Confused interview earlier this year, the writer said: "Each time he speaks more than five words, it feels like an astounding gift from the universe".
"He's an incredibly private person, and for him to not only be willing but enthusiastic in his support of my doing this is just an astounding gift to me and to the Church.
The fact that I can communicate emotion, intent, context, meaning and history all in a single moment of music - and have that message be heard and understood by most humans on earth - is an astounding gift that all musicians have been given".
Instead of turning to entertainment journalists analyzing a publicist's statement about the actor "battling severe depression" to confirm some sick curiosity, we ought to look where Mr. Williams wanted us to look, where he left so many astounding gifts and treasures, where he lived and where he still lives -- in his art.
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.
Enter the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins, named for the organization that made an astounding $150 million gift for us to explore and address the causes underlying the current discourse.
Although each is an uncommon musical theater performer of astounding vocal range, it is an extraordinary gift for acting that shapes a song into a dramatic scene, renewing the old and revealing the new.
The numbers in this campaign are astounding: 1,600 volunteers; more than 878,000 individual gifts from 279,000 generous donors; $1.68 billion in new endowment funding, including 267 endowed professorships and 157 endowed undergraduate scholarships; $610 million in graduate and undergraduate student financial aid; and more than $2.8 billion in support of medical research and programs.
Stewart works with astounding confidence and skill; he's a born storyteller with a gift for sculpting drama out of the smallest actions.
By the end, the ordinary — the imperfect, real human bodies in their astounding variety of shapes, colors and forms — seems like a miracle, and "Delirium" like a gift.
