astonishment

In one, she clasps her hands — one diamond-laden, of course — to her mouth in astonishment.

“I put out some feelers, and to my astonishment, they said, ‘Yeah, come along,’ ” he said.

Against the odds, the American seized the biggest opportunity of his fledgling career, raising his arms aloft as he crossed the line to the astonishment of all, with Kerr and Ingebrigtsen in his rear-view.

The revelations were splashed across the front pages of Thursday's French press, with commentators expressing astonishment that such a respected figure had, as Le Parisien put it, fallen from his pedestal.

Keely Hodgkinson stood with her eyes and mouth wide open in astonishment, hands fixed either side of a head dizzied by two laps that had changed everything.