Sentence examples for puzzling surprise from inspiring English sources

But he wrote novels and poetry too, and it was an extraordinary and puzzling surprise for him, he said, when last month in The New York Times Book Review, Francine Prose, reviewing "The Death of the Adversary" and "Comedy in a Minor Key" -- two of his novels written more than 50 years ago -- called them masterpieces and labeled him a genius.

The selection of entrees — or more precisely, their prices — contained a few puzzling surprises.

Describing much of Bradshaw's attack as "frankly puzzling", Thompson added: "Ben's surprise at these services it itself surprising".

It is also puzzling why the authors were surprised by the results.

"It's puzzling to us; it was a surprise finding," she said.

For Benjamin Moffitt, the Australian author of the new book, The Global Rise of Populism, this recurrent surprise is not only puzzling but worrying.

What's puzzling is that anyone would be surprised by the backlash.

On desserts, the kitchen once again surprised with unexpected delights and puzzling gaffes.

More surprises, in addition to the puzzling findings reported by Martin and colleagues [ 1], regarding T1/ST2 signaling in health and disease are likely to be discovered.

Perhaps it's no surprise that I also discovered others puzzling over cardiologists who recommended pacemakers for relatives with advanced dementia.

Exceptional people died of cancer and heart attacks; it was the nobodies who suffered stupid and puzzling demises, to make up for the lack of surprises in their lives.