Sentence examples for shocking surprise from inspiring English sources

Right-wingers are hyping this observation as if it were some kind of shocking surprise, when it was, in fact, well-known to everyone from the beginning of the debate.

Few playwrights can match Conor McPherson, meanwhile, for the skin-crawling effect of "The Weir" and, especially, "Shining City," which ends with a shocking surprise that provoked the loudest shrieks on Broadway in recent memory.

"Even though much of it was in fact predicted by opponents of the president's economic plan -- some of them here -- all of it has apparently come as a shocking surprise to the president and to his economic team".

"But it's still a shocking surprise that in the same year as the Green Deal Finance Company had to be bailed out with millions of pounds of taxpayers' money, the chief exec has been earning a huge, banker-style salary.

It was a shocking surprise to many but not to those who, like me, voted for him in the first round of the French presidential elections two weeks ago.

In his foreword to "Lolita," Nabokov, impersonating the sociologist John Ray, Jr., Ph.D., writes that "a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise".

The stoking of suspense and the springing of shocking surprises are also among the book's pleasures.

I am reading The Complete Stories published 2015, which is full of lovely and shocking surprises.

As the novel progresses and he unpicks the complex web of relationships that spreads beneath the surface of this society, he discovers painful truths and some shocking surprises.

The research for the book, online, archival and through interviews, brought shocking surprises.

Watching the Emmy ceremony last year produced a nasty case of whiplash as the evening veered wildly between rewarding the expected winners ("Modern Family," Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jim Parsons) and delivering absolutely shocking surprises.