Carey's performance, though, was surprisingly affecting.
The particularity of the uniforms, the minuteness of the detail open to scrutiny, was surprisingly affecting.
My mom and her friend, both in their fifties, two twenty-three year olds, and I, at 18, were surprisingly affected by the play in very similar ways.
Mr. O'Neal and Marisa Berenson (as the preternaturally pallid Lady Lyndon) are surprisingly affecting.
Yet "Adam & Eve" is surprisingly affecting — if only because it's so weird.
Its eyes are surprisingly affecting, and as it moves and responds to your touch there is a musculature apparent in its face that conspires to give it a real "living" feel.
And as we admit in the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, the new Queer Eye formula ends up being surprisingly affecting — we won't name names, but more than one of us found themselves crying at the end of episodes.
After all, this is the same glorious man capable of consuming his own shoes, obsessing over WrestleMania, and speaking from the point-of-view of a plastic bag (the short film, a PSA against pollution, is surprisingly affecting).
It was Brooks's debut and greatest movie, and Wilder's performance is surprisingly affecting, by turns manic ("I'm in pain! And I'm wet! And I'm still hysterical!") and moving, as when he and Max dance by the fountains at Lincoln Center to the tune of Gershwin.
