In compelling theatre, characters go through a surprising change and, in compressed time, we witness them becoming altered people.
It's quite possible that an unleashed Chinese currency would go in a surprising direction: down.
Prince averaged 12.2 points a game in the 2006-7 season as the Scarlet Knights went on a surprising run to the national title game.
In 1976, a 42 40 Phoenix team featuring longtime franchise favourites Alvan Adams and Paul Westphal went on a surprising postseason run in which the "Sunderalla" Suns pulled off upsets in the first two rounds to reach the NBA finals, where they faced the Boston Celtics in a dramatic six-game series.
He was effusive when Ivan Johnson, a 27-year rookie forward for the Hawks, went on a surprising scoring streak in the second half.
And in that time, the Titans have gone from a surprising contender to a team desperate for a victory to stay in the playoff race.
In February, a prime piece of the old Shiodome railway yard close to the Ginza, Tokyo's central shopping district, went for a surprising ¥7.1m per square metre ($5,500 per square foot), about 5% more than was being predicted.
But when the global advertising business handed out awards last month at the annual Cannes Lions festival, one of the biggest prizes went to a surprising winner, the obscure twenty-year-old student artist from Hong Kong named Jonathan Mak Long.
Though Miss Fozzard never loses her formality, by the end she has gone through a surprising emotional change, and we learn just how much she understands about life and how she chooses to deal with it.
Even op-ed columnist and former Times executive editor A.M. "Abe" Rosenthal, long reviled by many gays and lesbians as the most homophobic force at the Times, went through a surprising transformation.
