Sentence examples for critics surprise from inspiring English sources

To the critics' surprise, the governor agreed to put his plans on hold, pending further discussion.

Reviews of Hole's live shows in London in February and at the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Tex., last month have been mostly positive, often to the critics' surprise.

Later charged with corruption, Mr Zuma successfully argued that the charges should be dropped on a legal technicality just before his election as president (by the ANC-dominated parliament) in May 2009.To his critics' surprise, Mr Zuma has now appointed a respected appeal-court judge, Willie Sereti, to head the arms-deal inquiry.

To many critics' surprise, "Brooklyn" took home the award last year and its star Andy Samberg walked away with Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

A relatively new entrant to the mobile space, the Windows Phone OS has little in common with its stodgy, cubicle-bound desktop cousin: It's critics' surprise favorite though it has yet to take off with the larger public (perhaps because people hear the word "Windows" and just want to beat the ink out of a copier with a baseball bat).

Some critics, surprised and outraged, nicknamed him Mickey – after the cartoon mouse – because he once worked for Disney.

Even those critics surprised by the underlying political messages in "Killing Them Softly" were pleased.

Many critics expressed surprise that Gosling, the Hollywood movie star, would make a non-narrative look at fractured society.

For the professor from Bologna University, then aged 48, it was a late introduction into the world of international literary fame and one that took many critics by surprise.

During the 1950's and 60's Mr. Peck appeared in roles as various as the burned-out gunslinger in "The Gunfighter" (1950) and the amiable journalist who courts Audrey Hepburn in the romantic comedy "Roman Holiday" (1953), a step into Cary Grant territory that caught many critics by surprise.

Catucci and a handful of others critics expressed surprise at the newfound maturity of the band.