Sentence examples for downright surprising from inspiring English sources

Other entries are downright surprising, none more so than Margaret Thatcher.

Considering Hannibal was a groundbreaking (and controversial and downright surprising) choice for traditional cable thanks to its graphic imagery, it's arguably the perfect series for cable or streaming services like Netflix, Amazon or Hulu.

Entrepreneur and vlogger Hank Green explains in this new SciShow YouTube video how Bayesian reasoning can use stats to draw some downright surprising conclusions.

The dishes on this list range from the excessive (like the Bacon Bomb from Paddy Long's in Chicago, a pork sausage meatloaf wrapped in a woven blanket of brown sugar bacon and slow cooked in a pig roaster) to the downright surprising (like the Melba pancakes from Shopsin's in New York City, featuring lime, raspberry, and peach preserves, with bacon and cream cheese).

Hardly surprising for a teenager, but downright subversive for a Disney princess.

Some of these heuristics were pretty obvious — people tend to make inferences from their own experiences, so if they've recently seen a traffic accident they will overestimate the danger of dying in a car crash — but others were more surprising, even downright wacky.

Evidence reveals, however, that our planet is an almost unimaginably complicated beast, which reacts to a dramatically changing climate in all manner of different ways; a few – like the aforementioned – straightforward and predictable; some surprising and others downright implausible.

Madonna's surprising relatability sounds like downright vulnerability on other tracks.

Paying that kind of money for canned tuna may be surprising, but what's downright shocking is how amazingly simple it is to make something quite like it at home.

This may sound like a silly caveat, but it's surprising how many mediocre and often downright horrible acts are signed to record labels.

A plot twist that would be surprising under any circumstances comes across as downright bizarre, and Minot's hasty resolution doesn't help.