Sentence examples for surprise the thing from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the surprise, the thing to be explained, is not how he got ignored by the mainstream art world for so long but how he ended up rich and famous without once compromising or simplifying his disturbing, shocking, confrontational art.

To their surprise, the thing that best explained why UHI effects in wet cities exceeded those in dry ones was the smoothness of the city relative to its surroundings.

She asks: "Can you imagine having sex with a man wearing chunky bracelets?" to which Nick gravely replies: "You'd be surprised the things I can imagine".

I'm surprised the first thing I didn't yell was, 'Thank you, Jesus!'".

"I'm not at all surprised the whole thing blew up," said Van Jackson, a North Korea expert at the Victoria University of Wellington.

To be surprised by the thing we thought we knew.

"I'd be surprised if the thing is even connected to any emergency line," Mr. Soto said.

You're more surprised by the thing that comes," Mr. Brinegar said.

RO: I was surprised, because the thing is some of those tracks are quite complicated and quite layered.

It'll surprise you, the things you think about in this state.

"The truth," the Kings of War concluded, "is we should probably not be surprised by the things that surprise us". Indeed, a whole cadre of Soviet studies specialists failed to spot the USSR's coming collapse.