To survive the physical challenges of Venus, both Van and Lars must let go of the past, and Bova proves himself equal to the task of showing how adversity can temper character in unforeseen ways.
It's a Hitchcock ending without any unforeseen twists, murders or characters falling off Mount Rushmore.
Sigma, however, was written as a once-good character suffering an "unforeseen error" that leads him to be completely evil.
Unforeseen, in this case, could mean "competitive".
Like the visiting Passalus, we in the audience hear both the surface pleasantries and the fraught interior voices, as an amiable weekend at a luxurious beach house on Long Island becomes an unforeseen rite of passage for more than one character.
What follows is altogether darker, as each character is left to deal with the unforeseen Dostoevskian consequences of their actions.
There is a moment in the movie "The Sum of All Fears," this summer's Tom Clancy spy thriller starring Ben Affleck, when Mr. Affleck's character, a naïve agent, realizes that an unforeseen disaster has changed his world, altering his outlook and making him wary.
Makaeff cited health problems, unforeseen publicity and Trump's public "barbs" at her character as reasons she wished to withdraw.
Edwin Morgan's Sonnets from Scotland, which supplies the title of Robertson's fourth book, gives a sense of both the novel's beauty and epic scale: "Only now this unforeseen / reluctance, like a slate we could not clean / of characters, yet could not read, or write / our answers on, or smash, or take with us".
(In a hilarious couple of pages, she describes a 19th-century school text of a play by Plautus in which the character of "the pimp" was changed to "the merchant", with all kinds of unforeseen consequences for the plot and the poetry).
