Sentence examples for modest surprise from inspiring English sources

Analysts, who prefer to accept a company's definition of how to measure income, had estimated a profit of 9 cents, providing the sort of modest surprise that is hardly surprising for Internet companies.

But the movie needs something, a modest surprise, a dose of vitality or maybe vitamins.

A decision to keep buying bonds at the current pace would be a modest surprise.

— NATE SILVER Here's one modest surprise from the exit polls, considering that Mr. Gingrich was widely thought to have performed poorly in both Florida debates.

Our modest surprise snowfall last week prompted me to research and write a post on Washington's biggest surprise snowstorms, sometimes referred to as "overachieving" snow events.

The party on Sunday appeared to have avoided the distant third-place finish that some polls had projected, with its almost exactly even finish with the Freedom Party representing a modest surprise.

The only modest surprises were Lashkar Gah and Mehtarlam, both in provinces with widespread insurgent activity.

Chances are the memories you treasure will not be of academic showpieces like José Ribera's histrionic "Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew" at Whitfield, but of modest surprises by artists whose names you may or may not recognize.

The plans, though modest, surprised many because the military has resisted nation-building operations since the debacle in Somalia in 1994 and has been pushing to trim American peacekeeping forces in the Balkans.

No. 8 California (21-8, 13-5 in Pac-10) vs. Skinny: These teams, which have never met, were modest surprises this season.

"With employment growth in the world's top consumer market an indicator of the future strength of the global economy, today's non-farm payroll figures gave the markets a modest upside surprise and President Obama some short-term reprieve following the blood-letting of the past week," he said.