Sentence examples for simple but surprising from inspiring English sources

The simple but surprising truth appears to be that symptoms of psychological trauma can be both culturally created and utterly real to the individual at the same time.

At the heart of the Tools of the Mind methodology is a simple but surprising idea: that the key to developing self-regulation is play, and lots of it.

Oliver is committed to fresh ingredients, and his recipes work (he's particularly good with simple but surprising fish dishes), but you do have to fight upstream against all the "lad" chatter.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS--Amidst all the drudgery, the manuscript submission forms of many journals ask authors a simple but surprising question: Are there any individuals you would like to suggest or exclude as potential reviewers?

You won't be seeing John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness in the "Doctor Who" 50th anniversary special for one very simple (but surprising) reason: He wasn't asked.

At the end of the day, the single biggest factor we look for in a founder is simple, but perhaps surprising: grit.

It sounds so simple, but it's bracingly surprising to simply sneak up on an isolated band of Uruk-hai and start tripping off the various systems Monolith gives you to dispatch them – safe in the knowledge that they all work as they should.

Like most classic stories, this one is simple, but its realization is so surprising in its details, so original in its visual invention, as to make most other movies seem (at least temporarily) shot by the numbers.

The extent of what can be defined with this simple primitive is surprising, but the technicalities quickly become complex; see, for instance, Gotts 1994, Gotts 1996).

The answer is simple, if surprising.

Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, had a simple if surprising answer when asked the key to his storied career.