This splendid and surprising book circles through time and around stories both real and imagined, lending a tender perspective to familiar historical events as experienced by two central characters — Rasputin's daughter Maria, known as Masha, and Alyosha, the hemophiliac Romanov heir — whose physical and emotional suffering acutely remind us of the human lives behind the legends.
With ellipses, repetition and a surprising final image, Morrison circles around and then pinpoints the mystery of identity.
The story is both epic and intimate, sprawling and intensely personal, as Villeneuve circles his surprising climax before revealing it with almost unbearable power and feeling.
It is hardly surprising that GMAC is circling back to the government for a third helping of taxpayer money.
On 15 August 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman received a powerful radio signal from a group of stars called Chi Sagittarii; he circled the surprising spot on the readout and wrote "WOW!" The signal never returned.
A perfect circle makes a surprising difference, and with watch faces designed for the G Watch R's round screen, no other Android Wear device can compare – including the Moto 360, with its black cutout at the 6 o'clock point on the device.
In death, those circles are overlapping in surprising and sometimes contentious ways.
Now hormesis, a concept once discredited in scientific circles, is making a surprising comeback.
This "separation of duties" is a well-accepted concept in security circles, and consequently not surprising.
The talks could resume at any time, but the failure to reach an early plea agreement was somewhat surprising to lawyers in the small circle of espionage law.
