Sentence examples for work surprise from inspiring English sources

It doesn't work – surprise – and soon runaway patients are bringing mayhem to American streets already lawless with biker gangs and riots.

Those effects, which include both props (a conveyor-belt-equipped table, an obstacle course of porcelain vases) and physical feats (inventive gymnastics, pointe work), surprise and thrill, and her company of short-haired women and buff men sometimes resembles a chic Pilobolus.

You can attend as often or as infrequently as you choose (once a month is fine), and the sociability you find with the group won't spill over into all the perks and hassles associated with close private ties phone calls at work, surprise birthday parties, requests for lifts to the airport, etc.

Wood engravings were the plain man's art and had been very crude before Bewick transformed them.His work surprised people almost as much as it pleased them.

The sudden maturity of the work surprised even those closest to Morris: "I always thought that Mark had great potential during those early years," says Alterman.

"Like all discoveries," he writes, Mandelbrot's work "surprises us yet again with the unfathomable depth and richness of the natural world".

That work surprised many of its readers by its then-unfashionable defense of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, who maintained that, with the attainment of virtue, a wise man may live a life of prudent pleasure, free from pain.

The work surprised some by being voted one of the 100 Best Plays of the 20th century in a recent National Theatre poll — a shock of sorts given the obscurity of Stewart (1912-2006), a middle-class dramatist who earned her living as a librarian and who had faded from view even in Scotland.

There are three main categories of stress that road warriors deal with: lost time when they cannot work, surprises such as delayed flights, and routine breakers when they fail to keep up with daily habits, according to an October survey of 6,000 business travellers by Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT), a travel management company.

Not long after, however, it was the relatively late work Surprised by Joy (1955) that got me hooked.

"She just continued to work and surprise us," he said.