Sentence examples for surprising notes from inspiring English sources
"Modern Family" delivers a sharply satiric view of middle class parenting, but leavens it with surprising notes of insight and even sweetness.
A message based around self-help is woolly enough not to scare away the unconvinced, and it also introduces surprising notes of genuine inquiry: "I wish everyone would stop telling me to pray," says the mother in Letters.
But there's time to discuss all that". Obama's opening gambit to dramatically expand the health-care system has attracted surprising notes of support from insurers, hospitals and other players in the powerful medical lobby who are set to participate in an unusual White House summit on the issue this afternoon.
Just as controversial are efforts to sell off a vast public acreage to the private sector, though the latest proposals mostly involve Forest Service land, which falls under the Department of Agriculture.Mr Kempthorne's interest in the job is a bit surprising, notes Steven Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute.
The findings are not all that surprising, notes Tom Chang, a professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, in that prior studies have also shown psychological factors that affect investor behavior, such as whether it's a sunny day or even who just won the World Cup.
"What is surprising, notes Marion, it is that they cannot speak about sexuality with their parents whereas it is easy for us to get advice".
It was this surprising note of surprise, this astonishment at the everyday that eventually unlocked my metaphor.
"We survived McCarthy," he said, suddenly, sounding a small, surprising note of optimism.
In New York City's commercial real-estate market, the 90's began on the surprising note of Drexel's collapse.
Terry Hughes, a coral reef biologist at James Cook University and head of the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce, said the concerning results were not surprising – noting Hoegh-Guldberg had predicted similar results 17 years ago.
Marson's account, though, sounds a surprising note of black humour: he hid from Downie in an adjoining room, readying to defend himself with the nearest object to hand – the script for episode two of "Timelash".
