Sentence examples for surprising language from inspiring English sources

Such surprising language coming from the author of "It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America".

Scribner said that the collection, which is edited by Anne Margaret Daniel, would "provide new insight into the bold and uncompromising arc of Fitzgerald's career" and was written "in his characteristically beautiful, sharp, and surprising language".

In these how-to guides women's bodies are equated to fruits and objects like apples, pears, strawberries, carrots, hourglasses, and, of course, the good old wedge (not surprising language considering the current state of confusion over women's bodies).

Assembled from a collage of voices and forms around Los Angeles, each rendered in whip-smart and constantly surprising language, it's kind of like a Ulysses for the 00s, though in its own day involving what seems a much wider sprawl of textures and tones and characters that works on the reader's head as tools.

Since December 2013, it has been providing a daily dose of rare and unusual words, surprising language facts, peculiar etymological stories, and all manner of other linguistic tidbits and trivia covering everything from abature (that's the trail of trampled grass left behind by a large animal) to zenzizenzizenzic (that's a number raised to its eighth power, or ((x²)²)²).

The fact that external factors, especially social environment, has been found to influence language characteristics is not surprising, language being "a social act" [33].

This is not surprising: a language spoken by more people is more likely to encompass a larger and more diverse area and include speakers from varying ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.

That seems unlikely to change with his latest work, "Elle," a breathtakingly elegant and continually surprising French-language thriller that brought the 69th Cannes Film Festival competition to a rousing close on Saturday.

This is not surprising since languages belonging to these families are spoken on different islands.

4,5,8,9 This is surprising because language-trained apes have no difficulties communicating referentially with humans.

It's not so surprising if the language of "Madame Bovary" seemed to me, at times, my own language, the language in which my mother appeared to be Emma and said laisse-moi.