Sentence examples for surprising to realize from inspiring English sources

But for someone who can do so much, it can be surprising to realize just how few places there are to go.

It's surprising to realize that this wonderful show of recent collages is only his second New York solo; the first was almost 20 years ago.

For me, it was surprising to realize that some of my hardest classes the classes that definitely don't give me the grade that I want are actually the ones that I look forward to and enjoy the most.

But the replacement referees are now officiating games that matter, and it has been striking to see unrecognized faces on the screen, and surprising to realize how familiar the faces of the referees had become.

The language and images of Carolyn Forché's poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning, that it is surprising to realize how many of her poems deal with uprootedness hasty emigrations from Czechoslovakia and Kiev, the loss of grandparents and other elders, people leaving and being sent away.

Considering its recent prominence, it's surprising to realize that the term has been around only since 1989: It was coined by legal scholar and critical theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw, in a paper illustrating how black women were often marginalized by both feminist and anti-racist movements because their concerns did not fit comfortably within either group.

It's kind of surprising and humbling to realize that, if we're honest with ourselves, most of us aren't above this three-to-one ratio on a daily basis.

Not that anyone will ever compare a Chrysler EPIC Electric Powered Inter-urban Commuterr) with a Ferrari Diablo, but a surprising number of people are beginning to realize that electric cars may not be such a stupid idea after all.

"It's surprising that it's taken them 250 years to realize that it's not inclusive," Brian Adam, a member of the Scottish Parliament, said last month.

It's only surprising that it took pension-fund managers this look to realize that.

Our failure to realize this, researchers have found, has surprising costs.