Adverb
in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise
Source: WordNetThe neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness. Carl Sagan
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. Arne Jacobsen
It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight. Jiddu Krishnamurti
The morale of the troops taking part was astonishingly high at the start of the offensive. They really believed victory was possible - unlike the higher commanders, who knew the facts. Gerd von Rundstedt
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. Robert Louis Stevenson
... the Negro in Africa had reared mighty empires, and astonishingly advanced achievements are linked with his race in the annals of mankind. Max Shachtman