Sentence examples for rather than surprise from inspiring English sources

Acts of violence occur like punch lines to familiar jokes, bringing tedium rather than surprise.

In India, the national team's disappointing start was greeted with resignation rather than surprise.

Most novels, however, tend to provide satisfaction rather than surprise at their conclusion.

Caerwyn's expertise ranged with such impressive authority across a wide spectrum of Celtic scholarship that his appointment occasioned applause rather than surprise.

An attempt to rescue other guerrilla hostages in 2003 had ended in disaster, when ten were killed by their captors.This time the army relied on trickery rather than surprise or force.

Next match: England, Saturday September 26 (Pool A) ▼ 1 Inspired for 50 minutes, outclassed for 30, but the fact that the overriding emotion was disappointment rather than surprise in what they had nearly done against the All Blacks bodes well.

Astonishing us Occasionally design achieves something so unusual that it astonishes, rather than surprises.

I might be amazed by how consistent and omnipresent the themes of these novels are, but they were so familiar that I felt corroborated, rather than surprised, by my reading.

In "this most onomatopoeic of languages" (says scholar Derrick McClure), you can be scunnert and stamagastert rather than surprised; skelpit, dirled or sklaffed instead of hit; and instead of just complaining, you peenge, yammer or girn.

"After a long period of drama and upheaval in the economy, how about a year of stability rather than surprises?" he said.

To be a known entity, rather than the surprise package, alters the dynamic.