He spoke with surprising softness.
He reacted with surprising speed.
His silence about my contriBution was surprising.
A surprising view greeted her eyes.
It's surprising that he shall be so foolish.
Suddenly she sat up and looked him with surprising tenderness.
Events recently reveal a surprising extension of his Monroe Doctrine.
It is surprising that a man like that was elected.
The actual practice of electrical precipitation involves a surprising number of scientific disciplines.
But the virus finding was perhaps not the expedition's most surprising microbial discovery.
But a surprising proportion of manufacturing firms in Britain are nothing like that.
These reports from clinics have also thrown up a surprising new player: sunflower-seed allergy.
At this point, pretty much any degree of Apple fanaticism is hardly surprising.
It's hardly surprising, then, that some are claiming the military has re-activated its psychic spying programme.
What was most surprising, however, was the amazing level of detail that the subjects had for all of these memories.
Hitchcock found a surprising degree of congruence between the personal and societal values of Northeast Asians and Southeast Asians.
Both men make gestures of respect, which is not surprising for the courtier, but unusual for a king.
According to ci, these species are "some of the most biologically surprising, unique, or threatened discoveries" from their teams' surveys.
The button is arguably the most visually compelling control in the designer’s toolkit. It isn’t surprising that it has evolved with such diversity across the user interface.
Perhaps it's not surprising people in these groups radically change their behaviour, preferring members of their own group over others in many ways.
In China, there is a surprising pedagogy misunderstanding: Rousseau has been always regarded as a typical representative of individual standard theory.
Secularism is going to start waning, and radical leftist professors are going to be moved out of the universities of America in surprising ways.
The most surprising of these is that, genewise, the humble sea anemone looks a lot like a vertebrate, and not much like an insect or a worm.
Looking at these maps, though, you can imagine how surprising that conclusion might have been to many residents of Mexico, the United States, central Canada, Sweden, or northern Russia.
What is more surprising is that, as the tea-party movement surged through the 2010 election cycle, Texas actually turned out to be one of the less incendiary states.
All of a sudden, a lot of well-maintained old cars, especially sportier models, have begun to fail in surprising numbers-as if struck down by some virulent new disease.
That a new ruler bled the land he had conquered was not surprising; that he had the honesty to admit it, and the wit to learn from it, is.
In a climate where governments demand greater surveillance capabilities, it seems surprising that a consortium of large computer manufacturers would come up with a security chip that enables anonymity.
To wage a revolutionary war for ten years, as we have done, might be surprising in other countries, but for us it is like the opening sections in an " eight-legged essay" -- the " presentation, amplification and preliminary exposition of the theme" -- and many exciting parts are yet to follow.
In the field, we conducted interviews with a dozen users in the target market. Our first discovery was not surprising—that the people who did the most taping and had the strongest desire to share edited versions of their videos were parents.
