Sentence examples for professed astonishment from inspiring English sources

Kozinski professed astonishment.

He professed astonishment at the controversy over his theme park.

When he landed yesterday afternoon near Dublin Corrigan professed astonishment to find himself in Europe.

Though the Americans professed astonishment at the work, they had no idea how to use it — how to insert this exotic material into their already polished designs.

Mr. Gbagbo, a former university historian, once jailed for his opposition to the government of the country's founder, professed astonishment at the outbreak of civil war, and drew on the vocabulary of xenophobia and virulent anti-French nationalism that has won him the militant allegiance of thousands of citizens.

To Mr. Cai's professed astonishment, his anachronistic reconstruction of this icon of class struggle in the rarefied air of the Venice Biennale -- he describes it as a meditation on time, sculpture and history -- has stirred outrage in China, and the startling threat of a lawsuit.

He professes astonishment.

But most residents profess astonishment at the prevailing peace.

(A Justice Department lawyer subsequently involved in the Lee case professed his astonishment at discovering that "this guy is making official trips" to China "to meet with his counterparts in nuclear-weapons design. I couldn't believe that").

Nonetheless, he professes continued astonishment at the existence of evil.

Competitors privately profess some astonishment at the new popularity of the series because the improvement flies in the face of the recent formula for prime-time success: a grab-people-by-the-throat concept, lots of sex, and must-see story elements that compel viewers to watch every episode or lose the thread.