Sentence examples for ability to be surprised from inspiring English sources
Farther down the car, distanced from the drama, other riders looked on with the air of people who have had the ability to be surprised groomed out of them.
In the foreword to Roberta Wohlstetter's classic 1962 study, "Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision," the national-security expert Thomas Schelling wrote that America's ability to be surprised by the actions of its enemies is the result of a "poverty of expectations".
Individually, I've lost the ability to be surprised.
We've all got that sense of wonder and the ability to be surprised, but it's beaten out of people as they go through life.
Above all, we seem to have lost the ability to be surprised by new technology -- iPhone 7? A new cancer treatment?
One person who has learned not to be surprised at being surprised is DiSchiavi, who said he admires Allan's abilities.
No one who knows Vazquez's ability will be surprised if he outperforms Mike Mussina, the reputed staff leader, this season.
"We give up our emotional lability," he told me, "our ability to be open to surprises, our ability to think flexibly, and our ability to value nature".
