Sentence examples for surprise oneself from inspiring English sources

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"It was a magical request," Moore recalls in the introduction to her new nonfiction anthology, "See What Can Be Done," "and it suggested that one might like to surprise oneself".

It was a magical kind of instruction, and it suggested that one might want to wander a bit and surprise oneself.

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It's always a surprise to see and hear oneself on film!

The reality, he admitted, had been less thrilling – the blur of time and rest stops, the boredom, the discomfort, the surprise and disorientation upon finding oneself tipped out in a Manhattan bus station with nowhere to go.

AMY DAVIDSON: The key thing, I think, is to allow oneself to be surprised even by the small stories, even ones that fit well with what one already knew (or thought one knew).

Some degree of oversight is prudent to protect oneself from terrible surprises.

Given the lucrativeness and perhaps relative ease of buying for oneself, I wouldn't be surprised if Singles Day starts to appear in calendars around the world.

Messiaen is easily baffling to audiences that are new to his music – and his beauty is not the kind with which one is immediately surprised but rather the type that has to be attained for oneself.

Shortly after the movie begins, Saul sets upon a single-minded quest (it's not a big surprise, but it's more effective to watch the film and discover it for oneself) that he appears to think will retain his own humanity, if not save any lives.

It's no surprise that Woodley would empathize with Miley, as the "Fault in Our Stars" actress values being oneself above almost all else.

Pope Francis welcomed the "animated discussions" the document engendered at the time, but warned against "hostile inflexibility, that is, wanting to close oneself within the written word, (the letter) and not allowing oneself to be surprised by God".

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