Sentence examples for gentle surprise from inspiring English sources

He rose with his usual air of gentle surprise, but I got the feeling that if I had come in through the window he would react no differently.

Or, again, another metaphor: why don't we describe age in terms of botrytis, the rare "noble rot" of the vineyard, that yields the mellow depth and gentle surprise of late-harvest dessert wines?

The ways that people cope with illness produce gentle surprises.

The gentle surprises have come in Wellington, New Zealand, the startling ones in Mohali, India, where Mickey Arthur and Michael Clarke have contrived to reignite interest in what seemed like a series far too one-sided to demand constant attention.

If only it wasn't undermined by the casual charmlessness of 'Still Take You Home': 'You're probably just alright, but under these lights you look beautiful/ What do you know?/ You know nothing/ But I'd still take you home.' It's the gentle surprises that show the Arctic Monkeys's best side.

Her latest book, A Gentle Habit, surprises you in nearly every line, on nearly every page.

He leads them by gentle laughter and surprise to review their own positions.

The local reporters crane forward to catch his gentle voice, and are surprised by the immodesty of the words.

Although each season brings its own surprises and gentle tension, a lot of the show's quirks endure, season after season.

And though to a lay reader the financial and legal detail in this book can seem excessive, and the treatment of City's Abu Dhabi owners surprisingly gentle (even Conn seems surprised by how much he respects them), the case against the privatisation and financial carve-up of the game is passionately made.

On one level it's a gentle sequel to last year's surprise hit The Lodger.