When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

The director of the film ( played by Rowan Atkinson ) claims that the reaction to the film has surprised him, as he " didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

In his fourth year in university, Kojima surprised colleagues by announcing his intentions to join the video game industry, despite initially having ambitions of becoming a film director.

De Sica's interest in the project surprised Simon, who at first dismissed it as a way for the director to support his gambling habit.

However, Whitaker's performance was lauded by the film's director, Roger Christian, who commented that, " Everybody's going to be very surprised " by Whitaker, who " found this huge voice and laugh.

" Susan Etheridge, director of the Children's Advocacy Center in Plano, Texas, was not surprised the cases were thrown out.

Another man, whom Cimrman is said to have surprised with his works was Jacob Durman, director of the Royal Chamber Theatre in Haag, who, after reading his play Prázdniny s kanibalem Dufkem (" Vacation with cannibal Dufek ") is said not to " come out of astonishment.

Whiting's appointment by President Coolidge to succeed Herbert Hoover surprised the Washington establishment, which had expected the position to be filled by Hoover's preferred candidate, Dr. Julius Klein, the director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

While Maguire was away, Murphy spoke to the referee ; the tournament director Mike Ganley was summoned and he docked Maguire a frame for technically not being ready to start at the scheduled time — an incident which angered and surprised Maguire.

She's a bit surprised that a famous director is riding public transportation, but Sabzian explains that this is how he finds his subjects for film and that art must spring from life.

She had worked with director K. Balachander once before and had been Kamal Hassan's leading lady in many South Indian films, so she wasn't surprised when they approached her for the Hindi remake of their Telugu blockbuster Maro Charithra ( 1979 ).

Ruiz married actor / director Clint Eastwood on March 31, 1996, in Las Vegas when Eastwood surprised her with a private ceremony at a home on the Shadow Creek Golf Course.

When he woke up, Odin was surprised to see the disguised women first and asked who these long bearded men were, which was where the tribe got its new name, the Langobards (" longbeards ").

Although Preminger and Marion had been estranged for years, he was surprised when in May 1946 she asked for a divorce.

Then, in a move that surprised many, Kennedy asked Johnson to be his running mate.

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.

Pertwee had asked his agent to apply for the role for him and was surprised to find he was already on the shortlist for the role.

He was very surprised when Funhouse records in Kent phoned him up and asked for a couple of hundred copies as they'd been selling the album quite briskly.

Reto Rossetti, a well-known figure and author in the Esperanto movement, was asked to help and through publicity in Esperanto magazines and to the surprised of the organisers, several groups contacted the Eisteddfod committee.

When asked about this by a friend, Swedenborg played down the matter, saying he was surprised by this experience himself and that he was certainly not able to do miracles.

* Used in Season 1 of Top Chef Canada during the Quickfire Challenge, when one contestant selected the item, and the contestants were surprised by being asked to use the ingredients of the contestant next to them instead of their own selection.

When Stevie is asked as to why he didn't bring in his friends earlier, he confesses that he himself was surprised as to why others were not able to see them.

Pre-booked guest Olivia Newton-John commented to the tabloid The Sun that she was surprised when asked to move up in the show's running order and take part in a skit promoting McCartney & Jackson's track.

During a meeting with Liu Biao, Liu Bei started weeping and the surprised Liu Biao asked why.

" I'll admit that, if you asked me years ago, I still had thoughts that EA was the Evil Empire, the company that crushes the small studios ... I'd have been surprised, if you told me a year ago that we'd end up with EA as a publisher.

" Ruwet was surprised to see Olson at 7: 30 in the morning, but asked him in.

He also recorded " The Socialist ABC " on the CD " From Tees to Tyne ", saying " I've been singing this song as a party piece for years, but I was surprised and delighted when the people from The Northumbria Anthology asked me to record it "..

Mamun al-Rashid was surprised with this mature reply and asked, " What is your name?

Mr Shakespeare looked surprised and asked him, ‘ This is the first time when I have heard you talking specifically about Muslims.

She was surprised to find that the song she was most often asked to sing was " Ave Maria.

Some years later Tenzing was asked what was the most difficult climb he ever did ; his interlocuters expected him to say Mount Everest ; he surprised them by saying Nanda Devi East.

Pavía, surprised, asked: " But gentlemen, Why jump out the windows when you can leave through the door?

Despite his grief however, Sandman contacted Spider-Man and asked him to shadow the group as insurance against him being double-crossed or surprised.

Years later, prior to the 2010 – 11 UEFA Champions League Round of 16 match between Chelsea FC and FC Copenhagen former Milan manager Carlo Ancelotti, now manager of Chelsea, was asked about his view on Danish footballers: " Above all the Danish work ethic surprised me, their special ability to give everything in training.

Rik Mayall later recalled, I was surprised when they asked me.

You would be surprised how many fans purposely stayed away from Bears Stadium last year because of the television policy.

He found that he no longer hated Dolores ( he knew how much he had hated her ), and he was surprised at a resurgence of an affectionate feeling.

' 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.

In this way, the extent to which Bob's prior is " wrong " can be quantified in terms of how " unnecessarily surprised " it's expected to make him.

For McTaggart " philosophy can give us very little, if any, guidance in action ... Why should a Hegelian citizen be surprised that his belief as to the organic nature of the Absolute does not help him in deciding how to vote?

People unfamiliar with the breed are often surprised by how quick and agile the dogs are.

At last making it back home on a bicycle, she found that American troops had seized her house, then was surprised by how kindly they treated her.

When Maria's eldest sister Alexandra visited Gatchina in July 1894, she was surprised to see how weak her brother-in-law Alexander III had become.

Given our political differences, people are sometimes surprised how close Ronnie and I have been to the Kennedy family.

lang declared that good songwriting comes from being constantly surprised, such as how the entirety of " Running Scared " eventually depends on the final note, one word.

For example, at a public meeting with VeriSign to air technical concerns about SiteFinder, numerous people, active in the IETF and other technical bodies, explained how they were surprised by VeriSign's changing the fundamental behavior of a major component of Internet infrastructure, not having obtained the customary consensus.

Ahead of his time, the most famous French agronomist, well known for his red-pullover, surprised French people by showing on TV an apple and a glass of water, telling them how precious these resources were, and predicting the future price of oil.

Later in Book XI, when Odysseus is making a sacrifice to meet the shade of Tiresias, he is surprised and upset to see Elpenor's shade, so he calls out to him and asks him how he came to be there.

While members with a training in scientific socialism have been surprised at the naïveté of the second part, they have found it valuable, as showing how much education they still have to do .." Orwell biographers Stansky & Abrahams noted: " But Gollancz and Laski, believing in a scientific rather than an emotional socialism, believing ( in 1937 ) that it was still possible to equip people to fight against war and Fascism, were caught in a time warp: history was leaving them behind.

Similarly, if one loads an old jazz recording into a DAW and tries to automatically calculate the average BPM, one may be surprised to see just how much the tempo naturally increases and decreases, depending on the current mood of the piece.

Upon application, the development team was surprised at how well it meshed with their fighting system, and decided to build the rest of the game around it.

In today's culture, Levy writes, the idea of a woman participating in a wet T-shirt contest or being comfortable watching explicit pornography has become a symbol of feminist strength ; she says that she was surprised at how many people, both men and women, working for programs such as Girls Gone Wild told her that this new " raunchy " culture marked not the downfall of feminism but its triumph, because it proved that U. S. women have become strong enough to express their sexuality publicly.

American writer and literary critic Maud Newton on reading the book wrote, " I was surprised, having only a vague negative impression of Farrell before reading Your Voice in My Head, at how charming, intelligent, and likeable he seems — before he calls things off and stops returning her texts, anyway.

Orac was the world's first serious attempt at an AI poker player, and most poker professionals were surprised at how well it played.

However, the car artist who takes the time to read the rules is generally surprised at how free expression can be ( in the United States at least ).

It received praise and " Two Thumbs Up " from Siskel and Ebert who were surprised by how good the film was considering Rob Reiner's previous film, North, was both of their selections for the worst movie of the year.

In the English adaptations, Cloud is voiced by Steve Burton, who enjoyed dubbing the character and was surprised by how fans recognized him for his work.

He played his first match against the Jim Swanton XI in April, and was surprised about how cold the conditions were, often causing him to wear two or three jumpers.