Sentence examples for sudden elevation from inspiring English sources

He was clearly surprised at his sudden elevation.

His sudden elevation was not part of a carefully conceived, cunning plan.

And what would Kafka, the great miserabilist, have made of his sudden elevation?

Marin Cilic struggled to comprehend his sudden elevation to become tennis' newest grand slam champion.

The result is his company's sudden elevation to must-see status on what is only its third visit to London.

Now he's playing to capacity audiences at Soho theatre and seems disoriented by the sudden elevation – although that, of course, is all part of the shtick.

· Final reports from the Frankfurt Book Fair suggest that VS Naipaul's sudden elevation to the Nobel elite took some people by surprise.

His sudden elevation from second-rate status makes him appreciate his team's place in the Bay Area baseball hierarchy, today's heroics notwithstanding.

The businessman-turned-bike gang leader describes his own sudden elevation to a position of strength as a long-held dream.

Melbourne's Beattie Goad is only 16, but is currently earning unimaginable schoolyard credibility among her year 10 schoolmates after a sudden elevation to the W-League.

So I've spent the intervening hours being thoroughly freaked out by this sudden elevation of Genzlinger to national prime-time prominence.