Sentence examples for affecting surprise from inspiring English sources

It also pervaded her celebrated 2010 piece The Artist is Present, for which more than 1,500 visitors to New York's Museum of Modern Art – including Björk, James Franco and, in an affecting surprise, her ex-partner Ulay – sat in a chair opposite her for five minutes at a time over a seven hour day.

Zhang (not altogether convincingly) affects surprise that anyone should see political references in either movie.

You might as well just toss a suicidal dog into the Nativity story and affect surprise when Rome burns.

One of the curiosities of modern life is that voters tend to elect alpha males to high office, and then affect surprise when they behave like alphas outside politics too.

Alcuin, while condemning secular oppression of the church, affected surprise that while the Archbishop Eanbald was travelling he was accompanied by a large retinue, including soldiers, and that he received and protected the king's enemies.

In his Hong Kong office, Mr Ho affects suave surprise if visitors suggest that prostitutes roam the corridors of his Lisboa Hotel.

In recent years, he recorded DVD commentaries in which he affected total surprise that anyone would be interested in his work.

Tall, with glowing white hair, he affected bashful surprise when applauded, and thoroughly seduced his audience before he even sat at the piano.

Their routine went like this: The troupe went from town to town charging $5 a ticket, then at every single show!—affected great surprise at the bad manners of the crowds that turned up.

High-risk children made more errors recognizing fearful faces than controls and misattributed fear and angry facial affect as surprised.

This paper empirically examines how suspense and surprise affect the demand for entertainment.