The showdown generated "surprising interest", according to the Manchester Guardian.
Her paranoia proves well-founded; their confrontations recur throughout the film and build to a grand, surprising, ironic and poignant martial arts showdown that is as much a cinematic coup of invention as it is a showcase for Pascale Ogier's forthrightly physical artistry.
What makes the fierce showdown over this treaty so surprising is that compared with most of its predecessors, it is a relatively modest agreement that mainly resumes on-site inspections that lapsed last year and pares down each side's deployed strategic warheads to 1,550 and deployed launchers to 700.
This has set up a kind of Flag-vs.-Cross showdown, with Mr. McCain building a surprising lead in state polls — for what they're worth in a year when voters seem to be rummaging through the G.O.P. possibilities, more than settling on one.
This year's Belmont storyline might have been irresistible, had the Preakness winner and great filly Rachel Alexandra taken on the Derby winner, the surprising little gelding Mine That Bird, in a girl-boy showdown.
ADDING IT ALL UP -- It's surprising how many carriers entered Nokias as contestants in this simplicity showdown, considering that they come with nonretractable antennas, no ringer-off switch, and complex menus.
In some respects, it was hardly surprising, Mr. Clinton said, that the summit meeting, with its qualities of an almost brutal showdown in close quarters, had not produced what he wanted.
This alliance might even have an impact on the 2012 election: Beyond Carmona's surprising gains, the latest polling data to include Spanish-speaking voters now places the presidential showdown in a dead heat, even as Gov. Mitt Romney hangs on to a healthy overall lead in Arizona.
Several witnesses who described the showdown did not say one way or the other whether Brown rushed toward the police officer -- a surprising omission from the record, given that this was the justification Wilson used to defend his fatal shooting of the teen.
