wonderment
Noun
Meaning
Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder.
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But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all, and Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball; and when the dust had lifted, and the men saw what had occurred, there was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.
And he's right: For me, the parks represent the wonderment I felt back in 1994, seeing Yellowstone projected on the biggest screen imaginable.
“I remember Cukurs speaking with wonderment, amazement, even enthusiasm, of the Zionist enterprise in Israel,” a young Jewish man who was there that night later remembered.
He is also known for expressing wonderment at the vastness of space and time, as in his phrase "The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth."
Schwartz, 2009, p.xiv. In the introduction to the story, Baum writes that "it aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out."
The lyrics were doused with a teenaged sense of wonderment and a penchant for trouble.