Sentence examples for form of astonishment from inspiring English sources

Flagstad sang her first postwar Isolde here, at the opera three years ago, her voice was so astounding tha at its conclusion she strutted on the stage, walking her body up and down as if in her own form of astonishment that it had just provided her with this incomparable musical instrument.

Her nonlinear form of realism — full of astonishments, surprises, and mysteries — is low on exposition and psychology.

The late Hadid's work might have long been a source of astonishment, for its sci-fi forms and gravity-defying structural feats, but now she's gone, her practice is prompting incredulity for a very different reason.

The suspension of natural physical laws produces a magical state of reality throughout this form of narrative, which leads to wonder, astonishment.

Lord Howell, who advised William Hague on energy policy until April and is the father-in-law of the chancellor, George Osborne, drew gasps of astonishment in the House of Lords on Tuesday for suggesting that the controversial form of gas production could take place in the north-east without any impact on the surrounding environment.

"Wonder tales" might be the better term: fairytales inspire both wonder as astonishment and as a form of questioning.

The Valley of Astonishment (2013).

Seekers of astonishment should look elsewhere.

Glances of astonishment passed between them.

It is like an expression of astonishment.

It was a shared look of astonishment.