Sentence examples for unexpected context from inspiring English sources

Those that are familiar are read against an unexpected context that makes them feel fresh.

It's not only politicians who can find their words taken and used in a quite unexpected context.

When I was living in Brooklyn, I was pressured to reveal my Social Security number in an unexpected context: jury duty.

But I'm very glad to have encountered a familiar writer in this unexpected context, and has left me eager to find more unlikely literary landmarks.

In the same way "Django" encourages us to put the "Ring" in a new, unexpected context of American slavery — to make the two inseparable.

The whole book is written in a rapid-fire present tense, driven by lots of smart-alec dialogue, his finely observed work on birds and landscape woven into this unexpected context.

The class debate can arise in the most unexpected contexts, such as last year's Olympic Games.

The author's deconstructions of Richard Nixon's fevered jottings on long yellow pads, radiating both the nobility and the madness of his own most intimate intentions; moods long familiar become fresh when Reeves reads them against unexpected contexts.

But while assuming an executive profile, he continued to appear in front of the camera, sometimes in rather unexpected contexts, such as that of the Italian horror movie Profondo Rosso (1976).

Metaphors drawn from war turn up in the most unexpected contexts and bear witness to the fact that, precisely because he is sapiens, faber, and loquax, acculturated man is also (and up to the present inescapably) Homo bellicosus.

A soldier who had been too young to remember the attacks is sent to a war, forewarned, if not prepared, by the images he's seen, and comes back with his own stories to tell; a Supreme Court decision becomes precedent, in unexpected contexts; a teen-ager reads a novel and is drawn in the direction of one of the selves he could become.