Sentence examples similar to spark astonishment from inspiring English sources

The company's decision and Sakiz's role in it sparked astonishment and anger.

The new justice secretary, Liz Truss, sparked astonishment among MPs when she refused to guarantee to the Commons justice select committee that the government would proceed with Gove's legislation.

In his first book, "It Takes a Worried Man," Mr. Halpin wrote with impossible spark and astonishment about the roller-coaster experience of coming to grips with his wife's cancer diagnosis and treatment.

The effect is moving; it's also very funny, but in a way that sparks not laughter but open-mouthed astonishment.

In Southern Colorado, longtime firefighters accustomed to blotting out brush fires started by sparks from passing train cars watched with astonishment as the Spring Creek Fire engulfed more than 100,000 acres and destroyed about 150 homes and other buildings in June.

And to call these kind of books journalistic junk food isn't a slur; they're full of quick, astonishment-filled dopamine hits that spark the same parts of the brain that make you stop and leer at a National Enquirer headline about Lindsay Lohan being abducted by aliens.

"Total astonishment.

Milosevic feigned astonishment: "Me?

Astonishment dried her tears.

The boy registered astonishment.

Should we feel astonishment?