Although Whip Whitaker's methods of preparation are rather different from those of Denzel Washington, they serve a similar purpose: to ensure that you're ready for anything, no matter how unexpected, that you'll be able to act (in both senses) without having to stop and think.
And I keep Haruki Murakami and Scarlett Thomas close at hand, because their books show me that you can do anything – no matter how unexpected – inside the world of a novel, if it's right for the fictional world in question.
The absence of a correlation within the medial frontal gray matter was unexpected.
The Newspoll figures are based on 2013 preferences that Moorhead says "will be entirely unrepresentative – but who knows what they'll be?" Complicating matters are unexpected turns like Pauline Hanson's One Nation preferencing against the Coalition and an expected "big third party vote" in regional Queensland where disillusion about rising unemployment is biting.
Running his eye week by week down the nonfiction titles, he became impressed by a sweep of unexpected subject matter and the acute seriousness of certain obscure authors — which, when combined, promised extremely low sales.
With a highly unconventional new play, Our Father, opening last week at the Watford Palace Theatre, Keatley complains that work such as hers, which often has an unexpected subject matter and an unusual structure, has a much harder journey to the stage.
Some standout pieces appropriated classical media to more current and unexpected subject matter.
She turns unconscious scribbles into unexpected subject matter, rendering the letters with the care of an image.
His use of texture, contrast, and composition bear the hallmarks of a true artist, but it is his unexpected subject matter, which ranges from gay erotica, to stylized glamor portraits, and even florals, is all consistently filtered through Mapplethorpe's singular lens, reflecting not only the visionary artist's highly refined aesthetic, but his then-contemporary experience.
It may simply be the matter of an unexpected phrase or even a single word.
