Sentence examples for unexpected subjects from inspiring English sources

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Government censors can tolerate unexpected subjects like the BMW case for weeks -- undoubtedly using them to gauge public opinion -- only to shut them down abruptly.

Along with a "short history of money" and a longer, well-illustrated survey of American money from colonial times to the present, Standish offers penetrating takes on such unexpected subjects as the depiction of "tough guys" on the world's bills -- an Inca warrior on Ecuador's 1,000-sucre 1,000-sucre like Charles Bronote of the Amazon".

The messages, the only glimpse the world had of Bin Laden's thinking while he lived inside the compound, suggest not just a firebrand calling for mass murder — a staple of most of the recordings — but a man, perhaps stifled by monotony, eagerly attuned to the news and sometimes attracted to unexpected subjects.

Dramas with unlikely performers and documentaries about unexpected subjects dot the 2015 Sundance lineup -- including a Sarah Silverman film about an addict mother and nonfiction looks at subjects as diverse as Mexican drug cartels and the amateur porn industry.

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Last year our reviewer, William Langewiesche, found this "a smart and engaging work that invites contemplation of an unexpected subject".

One of the most widely admired and voraciously-curious of UK jazz stars – pianist and composer Gwilym Simcock – launched the venture and typically chose an unexpected subject.

Robinson, whose varied bibliography ranges from a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe to her preceding novel, "Cost," about a family dealing with a son's heroin addiction, surprises us again with the unexpected subject.

With a highly unconventional new play, Our Father, opening last week at the Watford Palace Theatre, Keatley complains that work such as hers, which often has an unexpected subject matter and an unusual structure, has a much harder journey to the stage.

Interestingly, he consulted the literature in a rather unexpected subject while conducting these calculations: winemaking — a science that involves, in part, dissolving sulfur dioxide in water to produce sulfites and bisulfites under oxygenless conditions similar to those on early Earth.

Running his eye week by week down the nonfiction titles, he became impressed by a sweep of unexpected subject matter and the acute seriousness of certain obscure authors — which, when combined, promised extremely low sales.

The Queen became an unexpected subject for a selfie as an enthusiastic boy managed to grab a photo with the Queen in the background as she passed by.

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