When one of the guys dons a dress and pretends to be one of those scheming distant relatives in order to disabuse Geronte of leaving those people money, you are far from surprised when another guy does the same thing and even less surprised when one of the women shows up as well.
The article also said the military wants to withdraw as slowly as possible (no surprise) and keep as many troops in Afghanistan for as long as possible (even less of a surprise), so they want to end 2013 with about 60,000 troops, and then presumably pull them all out before the end of 2014.
And when you consider the contrast between East and West Jerusalem and Israell and the West Bank/Gaza) it's even less of a surprise.
And with a United States essentially sidelined because of its own economic and fiscal weakness, it is even less of a surprise that the S O S is going out to China.
It's no surprise, then, that when women are trained not to speak, and men are trained not to ask, wires get crossed … and even less of a surprise that abusive people can leverage this to get what they want.
And when I took a turn and started playing, the noise bothered me even less, especially, to my surprise, during subdued passages, including the theme and variations movement of Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata.
I was not surprised and even less was I outraged.
"What surprises me even less is five minutes later with two bandages up his nose and he's going into aerial challenges with Abdoulay Faye and winning them.
For those of you even less perceptive than I (hard to imagine), what happened next may be a surprise.
This is little of a surprise for Italy, in a sector – such as domestic work – even less unionized and permeable to upwards mobility than the others in which immigrant labour is concentrated (Marchetti, 2012).
