Sentence examples for surprising encounter from inspiring English sources

Uglow makes the suggestive point that Lear's great ode "The Dong with a Luminous Nose," published in 1876, must have been sparked by his surprising encounter, the previous year, with the Romantic wanderer Edward John Trelawny, the sailor and friend of Byron's, who found Shelley dead and cremated his body on a beach in Italy.

"To be enchanted is to be struck and shaken by the extraordinary that lives amid the familiar and the everyday... the mood I [Bennett] [am] calling enchanted," she says, "involves... a surprising encounter," that contains "the pleasurable feeling of being disrupted or torn out of one's default sensory-psychic-intellectual disposition".

Culture shock has been a surprising encounter and one that will continue to happen throughout life.

Never get complacent: Rogers recounted a surprising encounter with acclaimed science fiction author Ray Bradbury shortly before his 2012 death.

The surprising encounter captured in the video is not the first one in the waters near Santa Cruz.

But there were still some other surprising encounters.

The day saw some exciting and surprising encounters.

It is a place of surprising encounters: youths clattering their horses across stony tracks, shady valleys full of Palestinian picnickers who invite strangers to sit down.

He tells of orgies and threesomes, of strange predilections and surprising encounters: what Charles Laughton liked to eat in his sandwiches (you don't want to know), how loudly Vivien Leigh screamed, the oral tendencies of George Cukor.

Battersea Arts Centre's One-on-One festival offers bite-sized adventures and surprising encounters all across a building that feels like a giant dressed set waiting for something to happen.

She made the film, which runs 51 minutes, by following the 51-mile river to see what it would yield, from a visit with a homeless person who identifies as "Cat Man" to surprising encounters with roosters, sheep and other animals.