Sentence examples for great amazement from inspiring English sources

Humphrys feigned great amazement that anyone could see him as a pessimistic grouch.

The fact that chimps should speak seems no great amazement; they are obviously full of humanist purpose as a species and destined to be the next lot of Fabian Socialists.

The narrator, in effect, notes that to his great amazement sometimes, in the totalitarian order of bats, a "different city" unexpectedly appears.

The fear that Jews might face a new Holocaust, as it seemed prior to the Six Days War, combined with great amazement [End Page 312] at Israel's victory, turned Israel into the center pillar of American Jewish identity.

I watched the entire United incident unravel on TV and the Internet with great amazement.

With great amazement, Sidonie experiences the first hours of the French Revolution.

And Peckham, the high street where geezers grizzle to camera, is one of London's great amazements: West Africa, its tropical fish, its rainbow of vegetable stalls and smiles, plonked down where only eels and pies flourished.

The greater amazement is that "The Sea Lady," despite all its cumbersome digressions and interjections, achieves a clear, convincing, transcendent moment at the end.

Carey's Theft: A Love Story, the bookies' second favourite, went on the reject list as did - to even greater amazement - David Mitchell's Black Swan Green.

At a dinner, he leaned across to a journalist and asked: "Have you read the book?" When she assured him she had, he asked with even greater amazement, "Tell me, is it any good?" "You are wonderful in it," she said.

Amazement — great wonder tempered by perplexity and even disorientation — is a deep feature of the Web; its users seek it, cultivate it and register it on message boards.