Sentence examples for state of astonishment from inspiring English sources

"We rub our ears after the fact," Nietzsche wrote, "and ask in complete surprise and embarrassment, 'What just happened?,' or even, 'Who are we really?' " "A Christmas Tale," which follows the extended Vuillard family through a few days and several lifetimes' worth of hectic emotional confusion, induces a similar state of astonishment.

While self-help gurus tell us that we should be in a continual state of astonishment that we can walk, or bliss because we can experience the color blue, in truth, if we have always walked and always seen blue, it isn't always possible to see these experiences as mind-blowing or particularly fabulous.

The opening half-hour produces a state of childlike astonishment as we witness one rapture after another.

In a state of some astonishment, Ms. Gruen took in the scene outside the Municipal Art Society office at the Villard Houses, Madison Avenue and 51st Street.

I saw it at the Maryland Film Festival last May, and, while writing about it then, in a state of admiration and astonishment, I fully expected that it would be rushed to waiting audiences.

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Howard Ensign Evans (a famed entomologist) wrote: "The earth has spawned such a diversity of remarkable creatures that I wonder why we do not all live in a state of perpetual awe and astonishment" (Evans 1968).

The suspension of natural physical laws produces a heightened and impossible state of reality, which leads to wonder, astonishment, the 'ajaib (astonishing things) sought in Arabic literary ideas of fairytale.

Visitors have long expressed disappointment and sometimes astonishment at the state of facilities at the iconic monument in Wiltshire.

The Valley of Astonishment (2013).

Seekers of astonishment should look elsewhere.