Sentence examples for splendid surprise from inspiring English sources

Because this is a sequel, the role is no longer the splendid surprise it was in 2003, when "The Curse of the Black Pearl" charmed audiences and disarmed critics on its way to the third-best domestic box-office gross of the year.

Splendid surprise though and gives me hope for the world.

To my splendid surprise, I was chosen to be one of two volunteers for this position!

Wednesday's playing of Haydn's Symphony No. 97 substantiated all this: straightforward, buoyant, with Haydn's martial timpani parts and splendid surprises coherently managed.

Of all the splendid surprises of Skibo including the chance to head there in winter, when the climate is milder than you'd expect, and the fireplaces roar in guest rooms and the library perhaps the most surprising is the convivial lack of stuffiness.

That stature made his arrest more regrettable, but he has slowly regrouped and today's splendid round was a surprise.

"A score with an original sound throughout, splendid, every bar a surprise, with not a trace of kitsch," said Anton Webern of La Fanciulla del West.

Tomasso Aquinta, the chef, specializes not in cutting-edge surprises, but in splendid renditions of Italian classics with a few flourishes among the daily offerings.

Though still hewing to drama school rules – small cast, single set, neat inciting incident – it has a mature, post-grad voice, sensitive and humane and jammed full of totally splendid crackerjack-with-a-toy-surprise dialogue.

In the absence of nasty surprises, selling options is a splendid way of making money, and buying them a wonderful way of losing it.

But that made the surprise of leafing through all the more splendid; its foreignness even more intriguing.