Sentence examples for extraordinary surprise from inspiring English sources

She just was an extraordinary surprise, because I was accustomed to Peggy Ashcroft and Dorothy Tutin, that style of acting".

So that he has even considered the boldest corporate action by Sainsbury's since – well, its disposal of Homebase for £1bn in 2000 – is an extraordinary surprise.

Ashton, whose selection is both an extraordinary surprise and a reminder that the other 26 value Britain's role more than we often realise, is a very able centre-left realist.

This is Christ as Salvator Mundi, a work recently conserved, studied and attributed to Leonardo – an event that the exhibition's curator Luke Sysons, briefly emerging from scholarly understatement in his catalogue essay, calls "an extraordinary surprise".

Scarcely a single witness had seen more than one Velázquez, and many testified to the extraordinary surprise of this one, the face of the long-dead prince flashing up into a timeless present.

For big cats and meerkats Some of my most memorable wildlife experiences have happened in deserts, timeless and seemingly featureless places, that can throw up the most extraordinary surprises.

Exactly what the next half-century of catenane research will uncover is impossible to foresee, but surely it will be as rich, diverse, and full of extraordinary surprises as the first fifty years.

"Every time I think it couldn't get more extraordinary, it surprises me," he ominously voice-overs.

But he wrote novels and poetry too, and it was an extraordinary and puzzling surprise for him, he said, when last month in The New York Times Book Review, Francine Prose, reviewing "The Death of the Adversary" and "Comedy in a Minor Key" -- two of his novels written more than 50 years ago -- called them masterpieces and labeled him a genius.

The authors say that only surprise earns extraordinary returns.

Fresh in many executives' minds is the memory of last summer's surprise: the extraordinary success of two modestly financed films, "The Sixth Sense" and the "Blair Witch Project".