Sentence examples for surprising slightly from inspiring English sources
The moment when he escaped -- that is, when the Maw gave way, without pause, to Contrapunctus I from "Art of Fugue" -- had a surprising, slightly shocking quality.
The story of the Hopkins I.C.U., and many other stories from "The Checklist Manifesto," will be familiar to loyal fans of Dr. Gawande's amazing New Yorker article, which was quintessential Gawande: elegantly written and elegantly conceived, in which the writer finds a surprising, slightly askew way of looking look at familiar medical issues.
I won't say exactly why I was laughing, because that would spoil the surprise, but, roughly speaking, it was because to get to Threesome Tollbooth you must pass through a surprising, slightly foreboding small space, the kind of space in which you can imagine a dead body being stored, at least temporarily.
It is not disappointing (sweats are much more comfortable) so much as surprising and slightly strange.
But if the intermingling of many different kinds of people is what gives Tel Aviv its pulse, it's the clash of old and new that still gives this city its surprising and slightly uneven gait.
A surprising, if slightly stupid, contender, then, for the recurring question of "Where does the time go?" * More (and arguably better) time-saving techniques can be found at our website of the week, venuefinder.com.
It's an interlude that goes some way to explaining the signature style of this enduring British MC: a mixture of gritty talk, basic but effective rhyming and a surprising, occasionally slightly troubling, humour.
At times, the inclusive sensibility of the series can also be a little too inclusive, when its idiosyncrasies, usually enjoyable and surprising, tip slightly out of balance and verge into trivia.
Because the method for network construction as well as sampling in our studies is different from that of a recently presented phylogeny [ 10], it is not surprising that slightly different affiliations are resolved.
MH: A deserving and slightly surprising winner.
It is also a slightly surprising moment.
