A good example of this is that something mentioned in the novel as a rumour – an incestuous relationship between the siblings Anatole and Helene Kuragin – becomes flesh and sweat in the new BBC series, with brother and sister seen having sex, although this perhaps should not be surprising from an adapter who gave the world the famous Mr Darcy bathing scene.
It would not be surprising from an evolutionary standpoint if an ecologically important life-history trait such as larval settlement was heritable in other coral species, such as O. faveoalta.
This is surprising, from a usually subtle writer like Prose.
In the past year, the court has issued a series of sharply divided decisions that have been surprising from a judicial body with a clear 4-to-3 conservative majority.
The delay of several minutes is surprising from a kinetic point of view but may point to diffusion slowed by the viscosity of the cytosol in contractile smooth muscle, multiple ERK binding sites in the cell and other ERK sequestering mechanisms yet to be determined.
Some of the cases in which the experimentally deleted edge is given a low probability (by either method) are likely because of interactions, which are surprising from an evolutionary perspective, or simply a result of the sparsity of the input dataset.
Still, the drumbeat of implicit criticism has been surprising from the church, which has been a strong supporter of the government, and the patriarch's statements on Saturday appeared to keep the pressure on.
Suu Kyi's statements may be surprising coming from a nobel prize winning "political saint" but they are perhaps not as surprising coming from Suu Kyi in her current role as opposition leader in a still substantially limited democracy.
That may not be surprising, coming from an artist whose best-known songs mingle sacred concerns with the secular and the sexual and sound like "collaborations between Jacques Brel and Thomas Merton," as the novelist Pico Iyer put it.
