Sentence examples for surprising display from inspiring English sources

When the coroner tearfully declared the Chamberlains innocent this week and gave them Azaria's correct death certificate, there was a surprising display of grief and shame in Australia.

Another surprising display is devoted to silk stockings in a riotous array of hues and lush with embroidered monograms and butterflies and flowers.

This surprising display of deference, possibly coupled with growing American threats to bring the matter before the Security Council, persuaded the Iranians to sign a joint statement with the E.U.-3, as the delegation has come to be known.

In a surprising display of critical approval for a musical many critics derided, the Manhattan Theater Club's production of "The Wild Party" received 13 nominations yesterday for Drama Desk awards, more than any other show.

But the most surprising display of spelling out loud came from Michelle Beaulieu, of Lexington Park, Maryland, who mimed typing the letters out with her thumbs, as if texting.

In a surprising display of political rebellion, about half the Democrats present and all the Republicans voted for Mr. Paul's bill instead of a compromise measure drafted by Representative Mel Watt, Democrat of North Carolina.

The column of air, like the nearby neon signs, cardboard cutouts and a block of ice flanked by microphones, is one of many surprising displays that greet visitors to "State of Mind," an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum on California's influential '70s conceptual art movement.

His appearance is derived from two earlier symbolic figures in American folklore: Yankee Doodle, a British-inspired nickname for American colonials during the American Revolution, and Brother Jonathan, a rural American wit who, by surprising displays of native intellgence, always triumphed over his adversaries in plays, stories, cartoons, and verse.

No less surprising, its display has been well received as a balanced interpretation of the good and the bad of the empire as well as of the mixed welcome given to immigrants from the former colonies when they arrived in Britain.

But The New Republic's Jason Zengerle says the book contains "nothing terribly surprising": "Bush displayed a 'lack of inquisitiveness'; the administration operated in a 'permanent campaign mode'; the Iraq war 'was not necessary.' " "Writing a harsh tell-all memoir of the Bush years is just good business sense at this point," Zengerle writes at The Plank, his magazine's staff blog.

In Sweden, where gender issues are often controversial topics, it's not surprising that displays of such stereotypical tropes upset some people.