thunderstriking
adj1
Rare Causing great amazement or shock.
- He then took shelter from the rage that might be expected to follow such thunder-striking intelligence under the bed clothes,1797, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 19, in Family Secrets: Literary and Domestic, volume 3, London: T.N. Longman, page 176:
- The opening of territory to slavery […] was the arousing, astounding, thunderstriking event that brought Lincoln back into politics and lifted him to a new level of public moral argument.2002, William Lee Miller, chapter 9, in Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography, New York: Knopf, pages 238–239: