Sentence examples for sort of astonishment from inspiring English sources

When the situation pushes Clare to leave her husband and kids, she alternates "between passionate, desperate love for the children, and then a sort of astonishment that, after all, when she spent time with them it was all absorbed in the old, ordinary tedious things: eating, cleaning up, squabbles".

But the enduring memory of these Games will be of the sort of astonishment that crept over the face of a 20-year-old British competitor in the 400m hurdles when he was introduced to the crowd before his heat on the first morning of competition in the Olympic stadium.

It's a quirky touch to my room and the reactions I get from people who see it is always a mix between laughter and a sort of astonishment.

The result is simultaneously astonishment, and the sort of synaptic buzzing that comes with having to recap and untangle what it is you're astonished about.

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.

That split second, we call it the moment of astonishment.

I had a sense of astonishment as well.