Sentences with phrase «overly surprising to those of»

The bit of revisionist history (summarized by Scott McLemee) concerning the decline of mainline denominations in the U.S. that David Hollinger offers will, I suspect, not be overly surprising to those of us who have actually experienced the seemingly chronic inability of many mainline Protestant....

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However, Kaepernick has also battled injuries in recent years (including some that caused him to lose a surprising amount of weight), can be overly reliant on the run, and inaccurate in tight windows.

Surging stock markets since the lows of March 2009 have caught most investors by surprise, especially as new pieces of the economics puzzle are not always rosy and do not quite seem to support an overly bullish case.

Therefore, it's no surprise that they steer away from the ads that appear overly promotional and fail to blend into the context of the rest of the site.

Compliant preachers overly control the language of their sermons, «seeking to limit any surprising eruption of emotion or spirit or any challenges to familiar patterns of belief or practice.»

Commenting on this same text, Gordon D. Kaufman remarks: «If, now, we bring a different framework of interpretation from Jewish apocalypticism to this critical event in which Christian faith was born — as we must — we should not be overly surprised or dismayed when we find it necessary to understand the character of the event somewhat differently from the first Christians.»

Knowing that everyone wants a huge chest, we're not too surprised to find less experienced lifters doing overly complicated workouts of a gazillion chest exercises in the hope of developing full, thick pecs.

I'm not surprised that they told you to buy a pharmaceutical scrub and instead of following their advice I would examine your diet and see if you eating common acne villains like wheat, dairy if you have a sensitivity, and overly large quantities of sugar; that's your starting point.

If you give this movie time to work on you, the elements that seem overly artificial or impossibly distant from our own time fade into insignificance, and you're left with a complicated and wonderful romantic drama that's full of surprises.

I'm still not crazy about the overly auto - tuned nature of the songs, but Gluck's last two films (Easy A and Friends with Benefits) have been pleasantly surprising, so I'm interested to see how the full feature plays out.

The movie is set to feature the biggest roster of superheroes of any film ever, so it's not surprising that her part isn't overly prominent.

It had some of the typical flaws of most superhero movies - clunky dialogue, thinly sketched villains (although the big bad was a surprise, to me at least), and an overly long and generic climactic battle sequence - but these were easily outweighed by everything that was awesome about it.

In this modern day and age of courtroom / murder mystery thrillers there is a tendency to be either overly simplistic in there set ups or over complicated to the state of losing the plot, but Primal Fear is that rare moulding of everything coming together in not only a surprising way but a believable way.

I wasnt overly surprised by this prevailing mindset, because I was teaching in a suburban community at the time; the origin of the students stereotype seemed to be rooted in a community doing its best ostrich impersonation.

You may be surprised to learn that we as owners inadvertently cause many of these behaviors by helping our pets become overly dependent on us.

OnLive was acquired by Lauder Partners in August, and considering the amount of debt the company had racked up, it's not overly surprising to see the company restructured.

, and I wasn't overly surprised to find out that Gust was also responsible for more than one of these pretty but unremarkable JRPGs.

It is a game that is largely aimed at the Mega Man fan, so the level of frustration that can be experienced from time to time isn't overly surprising.

I've been spending a surprising amount of time attempting to line up the crucial shot — something my robot assailants have not been overly cooperative with.

This isn't overly surprising as Bloodborne is a massive game and it's clear the bulk of the studio, if not all, are working on it to get the game done in time for its March release next year.

It did not come as a surprise that the doctrinal - formalist would also soon succumb, not only to his own weight and self - confidence, but also to the blows of the next hegemon, i.e. the managerialist international lawyer who thinks that international lawyers managing the world can no longer afford overly formal and sophisticated structures of argumentation.