Sentences with phrase «mild surprise»

We like mild surprises that fall somewhere between boring and bizarre.

Babies love mild surprises, and being surprised (and then learning to predict what might happen) is one way your baby learns that actions have consequences.

A look of mild surprise can be shown by the eyes alone, for instance, if the mouth doesn't move.

The only mild surprise was a smiling snowman innocently donated by Hugh's great - granny that gave a cackling laugh worthy of a Tim Burton film every time it was prodded.

Three of those Four are Teams that would have been expected but we do have one mild surprise crashing the party..

Free Fire throws out a couple mild surprises that complicate what's going on and add a few visual wrinkles into the mix.

Except for one mild surprise near the end, the thriller follows a predictable path as the supporting characters are catalysts for the «season finale».

asks Freeman with mild surprise.

Poloz's appointment was as stunning as it gets in the staid world of monetary policy — which is to say it was a mild surprise.

That was widely expected, but in a mild surprise, the bank went further in issuing a new advisory to Canadians and financial markets that the anticipated need to raise rates in the future is now less imminent.

(A famous story about Nelson is that one afternoon he noticed, to his mild surprise, that he had hit two balls into divots he had taken during a morning round.

Though, thin as they are at WR, this is a mild surprise.

Duval, once upon a time the top - ranked player in the game, came to Disney as the designated Bubble Boy, sitting squarely at No. 125 on the money list, a mild surprise considering that he nearly won the U.S. Open in June.

Two more players have odds below +1000, one of which comes as a mild surprise.

To his mild surprise, Calcavecchia discovered that he was better than any other 13 - year - old golfer in the Sunshine State.

But the fact that this year's team, ranked No. 3 nationally in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America rankings, won the program's tenth section championship with such ease was a mild surprise to Rose, who is in his 34th year of coaching.

It was that sort of wrinkled - nose disgust, mingled with a mild surprise that anyone could be so repellent.

And to my mild surprise, it's the latter.

Fogelman tosses in some mild surprises along the way, some more effective than others.

She also beat Julia Roberts and the lovely Alison Tolman, which qualifies as a mild surprise.

The first film award of the night was a mild surprise: Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the violent, racist cop Jason Dixon in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

One mild surprise came in the words «World Premiere» that preceded the not - so surprising inclusion of 12 Years a Slave.

There had been some mild surprise that Gene Hackman had been passed over for his work -LSB-...]

The omission of Carol is disappointing, and those of Inside Out, Straight Outta Compton, Beasts of No Nation, and Sicario might arguably be considered mild surprises, though none are shocking.

A mild surprise is that this is only the second - generation R8, the first real reboot of the would - be, could - be supercar by Audi.

I have to remember that Mitsu has a pretty good history of authentic off - road and rally vehicles, so their lighter duty system being capable was only a mild surprise.

It was a mild surprise, then, that Nissan decided to sell a two - door version of its popular Altima sedan.

To my mild surprise, it works really well.

Michael Pietsch in person does not have horns, a mild surprise given how little I thought of his role in the public row with Amazon over eBook pricing.

To be honest, it came as a mild surprise that payday loan borrowers were largely positive about the lending product.

Not that it comes as any kind of a shock or even a mild surprise anymore, but Battlefield 3 has been confirmed to make use of EA's Online Pass approach to online play.

From the audience — and this was a mild surprise — there arose only faint murmurs of disagreement.

This should come as only a mild surprise to lawyers, perhaps, who are used to the various and contestable ways meaning in statutes is determined and justified by judges.