"Most people start on the board-of-ed level, but I went straight for the top as a selectman when I ran in 2002 and managed to win," he said in a still-surprised voice.
Mel then adds that people are surprised that voice comes from someone who looks like that.
Then Sylvia's voice, surprised but in no way desperate, and too low for me to make out what she was saying.
Each time he did so, she would say, in a surprised and delighted voice, how proud she was of him and how happy he made her.
One evening, a woman on the Upper East Side got in and said in a surprised tone of voice, "Are you listening to 'Selected Shorts'?" and I said I was.
The president's intelligence chief, Jacques Foccart, who was waiting outside, was "surprised to hear raised voices" coming from their meeting, according to a de Gaulle biographer, Jean Lacouture.
Heralded by the appropriately surprised and surprising Human Behaviour, it featured a clutch of amazing singles, but it was on Come to Me that Björk's gorgeous voice was allowed time to fully breathe.
Instead: a burly figure with a lurching gait, some casual buffoonery, unexpected violent flare-ups, a voice more often surprised than snarling.
In a teleconference call on Wednesday with reporters, McNabb was asked whether he heard a dial tone on the Giants' bench or maybe the voice of a surprised Giants coach.
