Sentence examples for surprise a work from inspiring English sources

After the Faure performance, Mrs. Ronalds, an amateur singer, coyly announces that as a surprise, a work by another promising composer will be performed.

When a critic with as probing an eye as James Wood is surprised by a work's unsuspected depths, we want to know why.

He said he was surprised, given a work force of 78,000 teachers, that the board had sought to dismiss only three teachers for incompetence in the last two years.

It has always baffled me that some fans are so keen for advance material (scripts, photos from the set, plot-twists) as though the true sign of fandom is to know everything about a film or book before actually seeing it, thus ruining all chances of being surprised by a work the first time you see it – one of life's tiny, perfect delights.

No one really likes surprises in a work setting.

The French Culture Ministry said Friday that customs agents in Marne-la-Vallee were surprised to find a work of art bearing the signature "Degas" inside a suitcase in the bus' luggage compartment.

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature isn't always a bolt-out-of-the-blue surprise, a writer whose work is known only to an elite fraction of American readers.

NATIONAL An article on Wednesday about a surprise work stoppage by school bus drivers in Boston misstated the number of schoolchildren in Boston Public Schools.

BOSTON Schoolol bus drivers infuriated parents and city officials on Tuesday morning with a surprise work stoppage that left thousands of the city's 57,000 schoolchildren stranded at home or at bus stops.

Works in all situations from the most extreme survival scenarios to a surprise work project sprung on you by your boss.

"It's always a surprise to work together.