Sentence examples for faintly surprised from inspiring English sources

"And it worked!" Bjelland says, sounding faintly surprised.

But I'm faintly surprised that he's not trying to translate something from the Chinese or the Hungarian".

Told that Mr. Gore had been gracious and had indeed conceded, a few people seemed faintly surprised.

Just as I never switch off a televised boxing bout without feeling faintly surprised at the absence of fatalities, so I never attend a Premier League game without congratulating myself that a pitched battle hasn't broken out.

Lapham portrays Monk as an odd character who is very much absorbed with his own mind and music and seems faintly surprised when the outside world impinges on his life.

Speaking of witch, I am always faintly surprised, upon repeat viewings of the 1939 version of "The Wizard of Oz," to remember that Glinda was played by Billie Burke in her mid-50s.

Unusual items like tomburi (seeds of the broom plant, known as "caviar of the field"), faintly bitter shokuyo-giku (edible chrysanthemum petals) and stalks of mountain mizu with their crunchy, briny, marble-shaped buds, surprised and delighted my dining companion.

The rotating seafood-heavy menu might feature seared scallops with a wasabi-spiked mango sauce or other faintly Japanese-tinged surprises.

As soon as I finish watching, in swish Trinny and Susannah, and it's a faintly Beadle's About moment – surprise!

It comes as a surprise – amusing but faintly disconcerting – that one of the first things the five men waiting up there ask her to do is to rank the novelists William Golding, Kingsley Amis and David Storey in order of merit.

It holds the occasional surprise, like a small, buttery, faintly honeyed croissant that comes in place of bread.