The real surprise is that when experts make things at these scales, they get surprising effects.
But I often get surprising and very sharp interpretations of drafts I show to my friends — fellow poets — while I'm working on them.
A gooey, crunchy, sizable mess, it gets surprising shades of flavor from the a tangy tartar sauce and pile of lingonberry jelly.
What one would do with, when you get surprising results is you now have to think about, O.K., what do we do to take that back-ended speculation and support it with data?
As in Proust, we get surprising and vivid shifts when we move from reflection to example (that quick narrowing, from thinking about the sociology of death to an actual corpse, the author's father).
There were also, however, many shining examples of journalists doing their jobs well, asking tough questions, getting surprising answers, and presenting them to a world still stuck inside a frothy financial bubble about to burst.
When Mr. Philbin said how much Mr. Letterman had been missed, the host laughed, "It's surprising that people would miss me, isn't it?" The front-page attention his surgery got was surprising.
Get Creative The abundance of cheap connectivity and cheaper computing power means it's easy to put a bunch of everyday technologies together and get something surprising.
Still, he said, "we got a surprising level of discrimination".
Just after contacting the Vilenkins, I got another surprising bit of news: I was pregnant.
