Sentence examples for instead of a surprise from inspiring English sources

Yet it was Kennedy's more measured responses — a televised statement instead of a surprise attack, and a quarantine instead of an invasion, airstrike or both — that gave Khrushchev time to resolve the crisis peacefully.

Instead of a surprise ending, we are left with a meditation on love and freedom and betrayal that is all the more powerful for reasserting conventional values in such an unconventional setting.

Instead of a surprise party, take your special someone out to dinner and have friends and family be waiting on her.

But instead of a look of surprise, I got one of relief.

Send a letter instead of an email and surprise someone with the kindness of your having taken time out of your day to put pen to paper.

I made being an Asian woman an asset instead of a liability, and was surprised that they make such a big deal out of this issue".

Grumbles about his breaking his paternity leave on Friday to provide a soundbite for TV news on Lord Young's resignation – a Tory bad news story that needed no help from him – instead of to surprise us with his plans, say, to be tough on immigration.

Instead of the surprise and delight when people were seeing it for the first time, it becomes, 'that opera where the rabbits fuck'.

That visit came in June, but instead of a gun, the agent who surprised him in a convenience store whipped out an invitation bound in red cloth from Kim Jong-un, the leader he last knew as a pudgy, precocious teenager he had called the Prince.

It was a surprise to learn that, instead of a constant battle going on between viruses and cells fighting for dominance in our guts, the two are actually in a well-balanced equilibrium [ 40].

Emailing 20 million people about the details of a policy that a large percentage of them will not be surprised by, instead of a campaign they can help win, wouldn't be doing them any service.