Sentence examples for surprise beginning from inspiring English sources

"Our narrative is no longer primarily or purely one of oppression and victimization, but rather a narrative in which women, in some arenas, are, to their surprise, beginning to over-achieve men," she says.

With the stage thus set, the delicacy of Helmut Thieltge's cooking comes as a complete surprise, beginning with little gifts from the kitchen like a luscious oxtail consomme with smoked eel, a tiny cup of creamy, oceanic crab bisque and a crisp yet delicate round of blood sausage on apple sauce.

Entertainment for the evening had a surprise beginning when two waiters began arguing whether French or Italian cuisine was better.

The surprise began when we were greeted by a kurta-clad Dr Kentaro Toyama, assistant managing director of MSR India.

Indeed, Japanese media have recently, with some surprise, begun to note a trend towards young fathers taking on more child care.In some corners of corporate Japan, firms are changing the old working practices.

When she was starting out, the field was dominated by men, but she begged her agent to give her scripts written for male actors and, to her agent's surprise, began getting those roles, too.

PLACIDO DOMINGO'S venture into the German dramatic tenor repertory, a move that took many of his admirers by surprise, began much earlier in his career than is generally remembered.

As we turned onto 57th Street, a police van came abreast of us, the driver rolled down his window and to our great surprise began singing along with us in Italian, a great big grin on his face.

The project lead, caught by surprise, began a clumsy promise that the team was nearly ready to meet with him again to revisit approval.

Early in the phase Ia data analysis, the issue of "surprise" began to appear in the transcripts.

But there are surprises, beginning with what the exhibition reveals about the shape of her long career, and specifically, its departure from the linear shape that "career" implies.