This shouldn't be cause for surprise, but it is -- because the great majority of business forecasters have become cheerleaders.
Or it may be the interaction with the letters themselves, which are like fish hooked on the cursor, placid for a time before snapping to life and knocking around, a constant cause for surprise and frustration.
Where Genio C. Scott, in "Fishing in American Waters" (1869), describes chain pickerel at such a moment, he says, "You will find cause for surprise that will force you to ejaculate".
This astonishing debut novel from young New Zealander Eleanor Catton is a cause for surprise and celebration: smart, playful and self-possessed, it has the glitter and mystery of the true literary original.
Explaining his famous comment that the licence fee was "worse than the poll tax", he said: "It might be naivety, but I have a slight cause for surprise that it was regarded as such a controversial statement.
LONDON — That four productions of "The Nutcracker" have been running here over the holiday period may be little cause for surprise in the United States, where "Nutcracker" ubiquity is entirely accepted.
Probably the only result that would give cause for surprise would be an overwhelming victory for one side or the other: neither a narrow win for either team nor a draw seem an outlandish prospect.
That the cures have not yet ensued is perhaps neither cause for surprise nor disappointment -- as this was always expected to take some time.
So it was a cause for surprise on Sunday when one reporter asked the Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green to compare his team's postseason wins over the Houston Rockets to the floods the city has faced these past two springs.
But the comments were also a cause for some surprise because General Clark has been strongly critical of the Bush administration, saying it has tried to squelch dissent about its policies in Iraq.
