Sentence examples for surprising letter from inspiring English sources

A couple of years later, when he was a student at Oberlin College, Rowan got a surprising letter: "Prometheus at Coney Island" had been chosen for the 1996 edition of "Best American Poetry".

A fourth is the surprising letter declaration by Germany and two other hawkish creditor states, Finland and the Netherlands, that any direct bank recapitalisation should exclude "legacy assets".Quite what this means is still unclear, though there is ill-disguised fury in France and peripheral countries about Germany appearing to renege on a central deal.

As a tour through three centuries of urban America, it hits all the high points: Jefferson's anti-urban bias (complete with a surprising letter suggesting that yellow fever might be beneficial in reducing city populations); the complex effect of unions on the growth of nineteenth-century cities; and the influence of twentieth-century urban-planning gurus like Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs.

"It is perhaps GMCR's non-response that has been most surprising," the letter says.

There's not much surprising in the letter summarizing Google's progress, nor does the company identify any particular shortcomings or specific areas of concern.

A surprising number of letters are about what Bingo Little called "the stuff" — money, that is — and unlike Bingo, Wodehouse was seldom without it.

Between his growing blindness and the mood-altering thyroid disorder that blighted his late middle age, it is not surprising that his letters can be hard to take.

Oliver Bullough was now sole shareholder and director of Crooked Crook Crook Limited (under which name I receive a surprising number of letters. Just the other day, I was offered corporate car hire).

Sturrock regards the disappearance of Sofie Magdalene's letters with genuine perplexity: "For a man who kept so much correspondence, it is doubly surprising that not one letter survived".

But are you really going to follow through on that?" DeMaurice Smith did not refer to Schwager's surprising longevity in his letter, but wrote, "No agreement, either orally or in writing, has ever been made" to pay his hospice-care expenses "for an indefinite period of time".

"The letter is surprising for that reason," she said.