Sentence examples for found surprising in from inspiring English sources

What I found surprising in your book was that blackface had existed so long and I had this misconception that it existed in the distant vaudeville days of comedy but it went on for a long time.

He's far sharper and subtler than his looks suggest, with a quiet, tentative quality she finds surprising in so masculine a man.

This would explain its ubiquity in contexts that we might find surprising: in the exhibition at the British Museum, for instance, there is a curious object known as a 'tintinnabulum', or wind chime, consisting of a winged phallus (with lion feet, as well as its own phallus and phallus tail), from which five bells have been suspended.

Nevins approaches her subject with a gravity and depth one might find surprising in a film centered around toy-store merchandise.

As shown in Table 1, we found surprising asymmetry in the selection of protective alleles compared to risk-associated alleles for certain diseases.

While the nation as a whole might be in financial disarray, some states have found surprising success in lowering government spending by reducing crime, according to a new report by the Institute for Economics and Peace.

Researchers at MIT and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center LSUHSCC) at Shreveport reported in the March 31 issue of Science that they have found surprising similarities in how two bacteria with widely different lifestyles manage to establish chronic infections in mammals and plants.

I'd found surprising comfort in eating the same dish over and over.

Our research found surprising differences in how men and women see the issue of gender inequality.

The actress has found surprising success in an unrelated industry: household products.

In our match-ups of some of the hottest cars for sale this year, we found surprising winners in the Hyundai Genesis Coupe and Audi Q5 crossover, to name just two.