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It Will Make Your Saab Run Better, Too This year, skip the carton of store-bought eggnog and instead surprise your guests with hot mugs of glögg (pronounced gloog or glug).

Instead, surprise him by popping up in different, unexpected places.

Instead, surprise her with this intimate gesture when the moment feels right.

Example: Use "Chartreuse" instead of yellow or "flabbergasted" instead of surprised.

Not at all the reading one might expect from the bristly gay Marxist, this spare, serene observation of Jesus Christ's trajectory from birth to death to, well, beyond instead surprises with its devotion to the text, making its stray flourishes of subversion – notably the bluesy surge of Odetta's Motherless Child on the soundtrack – hit that much harder.

Instead they surprised everyone, perhaps even themselves, by pulling one back within two minutes.

Instead, she surprised me: for her birthday she asked for a Wonder Woman costume.

While I was prepared to be disappointed by oak-aged modern barberas, I was instead happily surprised at how harmonious many of them turned out to be.

Instead, she surprised the tennis world, herself included, by beating Lindsay Davenport in the semifinals and then Serena Williams in the final by the no-nonsense score of 6-1, 6-4.

I suspect you will instead be surprised by another smooth transition in Kenya.M. NGALIKenyan High CommissionerLondonBad breathSIR—I was interested to learn that State Department officials waited with "baited breath" to capture Yasser Arafat's historic words renouncing "tourism" (Bagehot, May 1st).

Instead he surprised them, (but not his friends), with the classiest most patriotic exit possible.

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