I was surprised at Mayor Miriani's defeat, but perhaps Mayor-elect Cavanagh can accomplish some things that should have been done years ago.

Why, Holden said to himself, surprised at his own sudden insight, I'll bet some of those people who enter are just as happy as can be.

He said he would not be surprised if some of the more than 30 members of the group are interested in running on the required non-partisan ballot for posts on the charter commission.

Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.

He and some colleagues had stripped naked for a swim in the river when they were surprised by a party of ladies out for a stroll.

Unguarded ( 1985 ) surprised some fans for its very mainstream sound ( and Grant's leopard-print jacket, in four poses for four different covers ).

I went to London with my wife to celebrate Christmas Day ... Sermon ended, as minister was giving us the holy sacrament, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and all the communicants and assembly surprised and kept prisoners by them, some in the house, others carried away ...

In this regard, Grierson's definition of documentary as " creative treatment of actuality " has gained some acceptance, with this position at variance with Soviet film-maker Dziga Vertov's provocation to present " life as it is " ( that is, life filmed surreptitiously ) and " life caught unawares " ( life provoked or surprised by the camera ).

The spirituality evidenced throughout all of the branches of the Order reflects the spirit and intentions of its founder, though some of the elements of what later developed may have surprised the Castilian friar.

This account of the voice she had heard relieved Adeline ’ s spirits ; she was even surprised she did not know it, till remembering the perturbation of her mind for some time preceding, this surprise disappeared .”

Considering his work on such bastions of high culture as the Louvre and US National Gallery, some critics were surprised by his association with what many considered a tribute to low culture.

After years of legal wrangling these were returned to her, but the French government had reportedly damaged some of the film stock whilst trying to develop and edit it and a few key scenes were missing ( although Riefenstahl was surprised to find the original negatives for Olympia in the same shipment ).

In spite of the controversy, the rebuilt Potsdamer Platz now attracts around 70, 000 visitors a day, rising to 100, 000 at weekends, and some critics have been surprised by the success of the new quarter.

This call to vote Labour surprised some of Powell's supporters who were more concerned with beating socialism than the supposed loss of national independence.

Thinking it to be a sunspot, Lescarbault was not at first surprised, but after some time had passed he realized that it was moving.

The Germans knew the British were mining and had taken some countermeasures but they were surprised by the extent of the mining.

Early on September 18, Brown's troops surprised a British contingent holding some prisoners near the Lake George landing, while a detachment of his troops snuck up Mount Defiance, and captured most of the sleeping construction crew.

The second and third volumes did not appear for another eight years, and they surprised readers by their subject matter ( classical Greek and Latin texts ), approach and style, particularly Foucault's focus on the human subject, a concept that some mistakenly believed he had previously neglected.

When Halley asked Newton's opinion on the problem of planetary motions discussed earlier that year between Halley, Hooke and Wren, Newton surprised Halley by saying that he had already made the derivations some time ago ; but that he could not find the papers.

The second single, " Punk Rock Superstar " surprised many fans while bringing in some new ones, when it was featured on the XBox 360's playlist upon its re-release in 2006.

He reportedly shared with a surprised George H. W. Bush, at the time the Director of the CIA, his fear that some of the portraits in 10 Downing Street ( specifically including Gladstone's portrait in the Cabinet Room ) concealed listening devices being used to bug his discussions.

Although many commentators were surprised at the time, and considered it to be an institutional crisis, some claiming the Fifth Republic could not accommodate itself of such rivalry at the head of the state, cohabitation repeated itself after the 1993 elections, when the RPR again won the elections, and then after the 1997 elections, when the Socialist Party won, leading to the constitution of Lionel Jospin's Plural Left government while Chirac was only at the beginning of his first presidential term.

He handles the grimaces, the surprised look, the quick smile, ... and all the derring-do with professional aplomb and grace, In casting Eva Marie Saint as his romantic vis-à-vis, Mr. Hitchcock has plumbed some talents not shown by the actress heretofore.

This he found at Phthiotis in Thessaly, where he surprised some wolves eating sheep ; on his approach they fled, leaving him the bones.

This surprised some observers who had expected that Rab Butler would be chosen.

In his book The Keyboard Music of J. S. Bach the scholar and keyboardist David Schulenberg notes that the discovery " surprised twentieth-century commentators who supposed gigues were always fast and fleeting.

Many commentators were surprised by the choice of Stransky, whom they did not see as a worthy successor to Mahler.

This surprised many commentators, as ACT was not generally associated with the sort of cause that Awatere Huata had previously supported.

In second place, and only around four hundred votes behind Carter, was the Alliance's John Wright, a result that surprised many commentators.

This move surprised the party, with many commentators giving him little chance of getting elected.

Lindwall took 3 / 82 in South Africa's only innings in the Fourth Test at Johannesburg, but was dropped for the Fifth Test ,< Ref name =" p226 "/> something that surprised cricket commentators .< Ref name =" az "/> His tour had been intermittently interrupted by groin problems, fibrositis and a stomach disorder, and his 12 wickets at an average of 20. 66 at three wickets per match was below his customary rate.

Cassani's selection surprised many commentators, as she was unknown in the highly political world of Olympic sport.

Tallon's non-selection for the 1938 Ashes touring party surprised commentators.

I was ready to jump but when Ma said she'd get the whisky it surprised him like it surprised me, and he ran down.

She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.

He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

After a while we were perhaps less surprised, but still puzzled, when a friendly discussion would suddenly jump the track into the most irrelevant and illogical comparisons.

One is always a little surprised to bump into such individual distinctions when it is unexpected.

I know now why our Japanese friends were surprised when they walked into our bathroom.

The first IFV was the Soviet BMP-1, which surprised western intelligence analysts when it appeared in a military parade in 1967.

In order not to be surprised by the return of Agamemnon, he sent out spies, and when Agamemnon came, Aegisthus invited him to a repast at which he had him treacherously murdered.

' I remember my news syndicate was so worried about what his reaction might be, and we were all surprised when he telephoned and told me how thrilled he was with it.

William Gibson would later reveal that upon first viewing the film, he was surprised at how the look of this film matched his vision when he was working on Neuromancer.

" Life caught unawares " means to record life when surprised, and perhaps provoked, by the presence of a camera.

Loki tells Freyja to be silent, calls her a malicious witch, and conjures a scenario where Freyja was once astride her brother when all of the gods, laughing, surprised the two.

Western powers were surprised when the Soviet Union paraded the first purpose-designed IFV, the BMP-1, in 1967.