Sentence examples for surprising thought from inspiring English sources

Here's a surprising thought, or at least one that feels surprising to me.

"But in that moment with the family, when they were holding their little boy, I had this surprising thought that maybe we did the right thing.

It is such a surprising thought - like discovering that Bianca Jagger secretly nips out with Lord Tebbit and the Duke of Edinburgh for a spot of seal-clubbing - that at first I don't believe it.

This sparks the surprising thought that perhaps rock stars, while not always great parents, maybe turn into terrific grandparents simply because their arrested emotional development makes them such jolly playmates.

That brings to mind the perhaps surprising thought that Mr. Deller and artists of the relational aesthetics movement with whom he is routinely identified share something central with Mr. Hirst: a sense of crisis around the question of what art can be for, in a time when all its traditional philosophical supports seem to have collapsed.

"It was the first time they had talked with someone of a Moroccan background". For a visitor to Brussels, where more than a quarter of the population is Muslim, that's a surprising thought.

It was a smart, surprising, thought-provoking, often hilarious, unfailingly charming performance.

Blythe's cranky trek through New Hampshire is a delight, and he sticks the landing with a surprising, thought-provoking comparison of bloggers and Shakers.

Gapminder and Our World in Data are a treasure trove of surprising thoughts and facts.

With England and Australia all set to resume in Birmingham, it is hardly surprising thoughts should turn to England's narrowest ever Test victory, achieved on the same ground.

Playing a terminally ill English professor in the inescapably moving new revival of Margaret Edson's "Wit," the 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, Ms. Nixon seems to construct perfectly composed, illuminating and surprising thoughts with her sky-blue eyes — the kind of thoughts that if you saw them in print would make you stop and savor and reread.