Some were expected, like the continuing decline in secure jobs for professional musicians; some were surprising, like the near-disappearance of the CD store (along with CDs themselves, it sometimes seems, as downloading increasingly takes hold).
When asked in interviews what made her feel that she could get to the complex core of Amy Elliott-Dunne, an enviably cool wife whose disappearance reveals a surprising hidden character, Pike has deferred to Fincher, noting that he detected in her a "dark side".
"Now you see it, now you don't" could be the epigraph to each of his books; he has a particular gift for making the disappearances of the adored seem surprising each time, the appearances miraculous.
That he was in fact English, born in the 20th century and at one point held down the job of assistant keeper at the Tate Gallery is surprising enough, but not as curious as the disappearance of his work from our public museums.
The world will be dimmer.So it is not surprising that voices every-where have protested against their disappearance.
The loss of poly(A) without a corresponding disappearance of the mRNA may be not too surprising, since unlike in most cell type deadenylation of mRNA in eggs does not trigger transcript degradation.
Finally, it is surprising that the separate knockdown of TbSTT3A and TbSTT3B, with consequent disappearance of most paucimannose/complex or oligomannose N-glycans, respectively, from all glycoproteins in the parasite can be tolerated in culture, with only a marginal growth phenotype in both cases.
There was so much behind this surprising collapse: Latrell Sprewell's panicked one-on-one forays, Allan Houston's untimely disappearance, Larry Johnson's inability to put his wounded body on Dale Davis (who had 16 rebounds), the Knicks' failure to decode Miller's 34-point performance.
So it is not surprising that an early review of James Renner's "True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray" would call the book "an entrancing, brilliant next step for fans of the podcast Serial, Netflix's Making a Murderer, and other true crime cases".
One of the things I find most surprising about discussions concerning the advent of automated vehicles is that, besides predictable worries about the disappearance of jobs that currently require human drivers, there is a serious, and boring, lack of imagination.
