Apple's announcement of its new iPhone 5 lacked surprises.
Like the season as a whole, they lack surprise.
This Brazil side are lacking surprise elements, such as changes in pace or switches of play.
The characters lack surprise or self-contradiction (Cal is too decent, Katharine too wretched), and the play, while heartfelt, is stylistically quaint.
That's why when Mr. De Niro plays a psychopath, as he has rather too frequently in the two and a half decades since "Taxi Driver" -- in pictures like "The King of Comedy" (1983), "Cape Fear" (1991) and "The Fan" (1996) -- his performances tend to lack surprise.
But as the answers are nearly spelled out in neon, the final reveal, which includes an eye-roll provoking, "American Beauty -like twist, lacks surprise.
Where Glastonbury involves a corporate pop-rock event that lacks surprises and spontaneity, Guca encourages dancing on the street to organic trance music.
My fellow Rockettes pulled out all the stops Kristy dressed up as a juggalette, brandishing a butcher knife and laughing maniacally during her set; Estée performed "Hello" by Adele as Samara from The Ring, whispering "hello" from the other side of a television but my goth-skewed Azealia Banks performance was knocked for lacking surprises to keep the audience on their toes.
The biggest area where netbooks are lacking is — surprise, surprise – in the graphics department.
"But what I lacked in surprise, I made up for in creativity and romance".
Waitt's decision to step down has lacked a surprise factor.
