Sentence examples for surprising quality from inspiring English sources

It's not exactly hi-fi, but some experimentation can deliver surprising quality.

It lacks the truly surprising quality of, say, London's Royal Festival Hall, or of Scharoun's all but voluptuous Berlin Philharmonie.

But perhaps the most surprising quality of the book is Ms. Ward's sympathetic portrayal of Caril Ann Fugate.

Portuguese fiction, according to Orthofer, is "inward looking," a surprising quality, he thinks, for a country that was once "the seat of an outsized empire".

But its most interesting and surprising quality is the degree to which sections of the work, with its hymnlike meter (performed here in English), resemble American gospel and spiritual settings.

In a review of a recent performance of "Revelation" by the pianist Joshua Pierce, the Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed wrote: "Perhaps the most surprising quality of 'Revelation' is its straightforward sensuality.

An online survey carried out by the author revealed how respondents associated the lowest whole numbers with surprising qualities: 10 was variously described as practical, logical, tidy, reassuring and honest.

The history books refer to William the Conqueror as jovial and generous, among other surprising qualities recorded in an 11th-century Latin text written after the king's funeral.

Among the most surprising qualities of "Babel No More," Michael Erard's globe-trekking adventure in search of the world's virtuosos of language learning, is that a book dealing with language acquisition and polyglot linguistics can be so gripping.

"When you're blowing eighty-five days in the middle of France, yeah, I know it gets tired, only where are your friends tonight?" One of the surprising qualities of Murphy's success is that, young audience or no, much of his work is built around aging and its attendant frustrations: "If I could see all my friends tonight".

Stanford researchers have created an alternative that costs just a few cents and runs without a charge, based on a children's toy with surprising qualities.