"expression of wonder" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe the act of showing surprise or amazement in one's words or facial expressions. Example: As she walked into the grand ballroom, her jaw dropped in an expression of wonder. The sparkling chandeliers and ornate decorations left her in awe.
Following the vote, they scribbled in the correct percentage number & distributed the prepackaged expression of wonder to the press.
The fight in him was an expression of life, will, engagement with the world; an expression of wonder, ultimately.
Nanu came to the gate in a lavender sari, with an expression of wonder, as if she hadn't really expected her granddaughter to appear.
In the words of the novelist Ian McEwan, edge.org is "open-minded, free-ranging, intellectually playful… an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanimate world… an ongoing and thrilling colloquium".
Excess serves very different functions for each of them, whether as an expression of wonder, adaptability, individuality, free will; or as a means of self-fashioning; even as a survival tactic.
So when I see people stopping to take photographs of wildlife sculpture, I think about the authentic experience that it provides and the expression of wonder that it represents -- and I do not feel that the tourists are people who are satisfied with shallow, inauthentic experiences.
A unique, uncanny moment was framed by the most familiar and predictable kind of coverage and commentary: Anchors, compelled to say something, reached for trite metaphors and hyperbolic expressions of wonder ("Our secular version of a miracle," according to one CNN commentator) that didn't begin to match the reality unfolding live behind them.
Even wonder can serve a social purpose: Malebranche interprets the behavior of small dogs in the presence of a larger dog as expressions of wonder that work toward their self-preservation.
Hyper kids and exhausted parents alike ceased bickering, yawning, and texting and ran to the dogs, wearing identical expressions of wonder.
They were not devoting their time and efforts to excelling in music and the arts for a monetary reward or a high grade; their true reward was the applause and their own sense of accomplishment that followed a recital or concert at which they performed or the expressions of wonder at the viewers of their works of art.
The following year she was allowed to accompany four other girls on a cultural trip to Paris, Florence and Venice; her letters home are full of expressions of wonder at the sights and treasures: "I had no idea I was so fond of pictures ... if only I had a room of my own I would make it a regular picture gallery".
