Sentence examples for barely surprised from inspiring English sources

The exchange between Sasse and Maher barely surprised me.

When he gets back to England, one is barely surprised to hear that his family seeks to have him sectioned.

I was barely surprised, then, when civil police from the anti-terrorism branch of the Diyarbakir Security Directorate knocked on my hotel room door and declared that they had come to arrest me for "being in contact with and carrying out activities on behalf of terror organisations", namely the PKK and a related civilian body, the KCK.

I think what I wanted for Jason Collins is exactly what happened: Happy, barely surprised support; Short, vaguely excited news coverage; A whole country that moved on to the next thing by week's end.

Of course, it barely surprises anyone any more that they did not score a goal.

With events threatening to spin out of control, the burden now rests on Mario Draghi, an inflation fighter in the president's job at the bank barely two weeks who surprised many economists by immediately cutting interest rates a quarter point.

We called the dealer again and asked him for another half, and he must have been surprised because barely 30 mins had gone by since we last saw him.

If anyone at the State Department or the White House is surprised that Assad barely missed beating a hasty retreat into Ahmadinejad's arms after getting an ambassador from Washington, they should not be.

But there was nothing amusing, and barely any surprise, in Ms. Winehouse's recent, notorious and possibly inadvertent public appearance: on a video released by an English tabloid, The Sun.

It's barely a surprise to find a booth festooned with hideous dried cod heads and manned by half a dozen Africans in traditional dress: one of them tells me the dish is a prized delicacy in Nigeria, so prized that he's come from Abuja to the Arctic to pay homage.

He surprised me: he was barely 15 years old and yet he was already very physically imposing.