Sentences with phrase «pretty big surprise»

«Winning the regional award was a pretty big surprise, but winning the national was amazing,» she says.

If anyone other than USC, Washington, or Stanford wins the conference this year, it will be a pretty big surprise to me.

Not exact matches

The big surprise for me in publishing the article with Lukianoff is that we were expecting a lot of controversy, a lot of pushback, a lot of anger, and there was pretty close to zero.

I bet if you asked any Arsenal fan what they thought that Arsene Wenger's targets are from the beginning of the season, most of us would have a pretty clear idea, but it came as a big surprise to me that Jack Wilshere gave his list as clear as day on Arsenal.com.

The biggest surprise for me is that Aaron Ramsey keeps his place after a pretty poor game at Old Trafford, with Xhaka and Elneny on the bench and Coquelin to protect the back four.

Arsenal would have to go pretty big to land him and considering he has a buyout clause that kicks in next year (weird), I'd be surprised if Wenger doesn't want to wait.

Despite the fact that they're currently dealing with somewhat of an injury crisis, it's pretty easy to see that Catania have been one of Serie A's biggest surprises simply based on their table position.

«It's a big ocean and the continental shelf is pretty wide, so it was surprising how connected the sand tiger group was throughout most of the year,» she said.

I was pretty surprised that I immediately lost 70 - lbs on the deadlift, but given that Fat bar work is my absolute biggest struggle in Grip Training, it does make some sense.

However, I did nt know I was in for a big surprise, I just stepped on the scale and pretty much had a heart attack: Last week my weight was 128.4 and now it is reading 134.4... I hope it is normal.

I've become a legal intern downtown and to my surprise, I actually really like it; it's a pretty big step in preparing for my future, so I'm very excited.

I was really surprised that our ship wasn't dwarfed by how huge she is since ours was pretty big too, but not that big!

It wouldn't surprise me if that was true, because «The Legend of Tarzan» — a would - be event film that happens to be pretty uneventful — has the air of a big budget movie whose studio didn't realize its mistake until it was too late.

The biggest surprises in the main category are definitely «Wonder Woman,» which received pretty good reviews, but was not expected to compete with the big award movies, and «Molly's Game,» which, to my knowledge, has not received a Best Picture nomination from any group thus far.

So this looks pretty damn good, and the early buzz might make it one of the big surprise horror hits this summer.

Assassin's Creed looks pretty enough, which shouldn't be a big surprise seeing as it comes from Fassbender's Macbeth director Justin Kurzel.

It's not really much of a surprise, as the films are pretty big cash cows, but it also shows the major confidence they have in the second film.

This weekend's D23 Disney fan event in California, brought along many surprises, including some pretty big casting news for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead...

Don't look so surprised: This may be a Disney — Marvel comic - book film — and, as such, pretty much designed by one of the world's biggest corporations to generate piles of money — but these movies have become steadily more politically self - aware and socially conscious over the years.

With 755 horsepower the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette zr1 is the most powerful Corvette ever it's also the most technologically advanced behind me are the rolling s's at Road Atlanta and we're here to see if we can reach to the supercar levels of performance afforded by this thing's massive power big tires and the tall wing on the back after that we'll take to the streets to see if a car this powerful can behave itself in public this is a monster of a car I've had some brief track opportunities moving this morning to get used to the pace of this machine which is phenomenal we're gonna warm up as we get out to the road Atlanta and sort of build up to the pace that this car can operate at now initially when you hop in this car you have this shrine to the engine right above you you see the line of the hood it kind of dominates the center of the view you can see over it it doesn't affect visibility but it's immediately obvious and that kind of speaks to what makes this car special it's a monster of an engine listen to that [Music] that is tremendous tremendous acceleration and incredible power but what I finding so far my brief time here at the Atlanta is that everything else in the car is rut has risen to match hurt me while I lay into it on the back straight look you know 150 mile - an - hour indicated we're going to ease up a little bit on it because I need to focus on talking rather than driving but like I was saying the attributes of the rest of the car the steering the braking capability the grip every system of this car is riding to the same level of the power and I think that's what makes it really impressive initially this is undoubtedly a mega mega fast car but it's one that doesn't terrify you with its performance potential there's a level of electronic sophistication that is unparalleled at this price point but it's hard not to get you know totally slipped away by the power of this engine so that's why I keep coming back to it this car has an electronically controlled limited slip differential it has shocks filled with magnetically responsive fluid that can react faster to inputs and everything this car has a super sophisticated stability control system that teaches you how to drive it quick but also makes you go faster we haven't even gotten into exploring it yet because the limits of this car are so high that frankly it takes a while to grow into it but [Music] I think what's impressive about this car is despite how fast it is it is approachable you can buy this car to track dates with it and grow with it as a driver and as an owner I think that's a really special [Music] because you will never be more talented than this car is fast ever unless you are a racing driver casually grazing under 50 miles an hour on this straight okay I'm just going to enjoy driving this now [Music][Applause][Music] this particular Corvette zr1 comes with the cars track performance package a lot of those changes happen underneath the sheet metal but one of the big differences that is immediately obvious is this giant carbon fiber wing now the way this thing is mounted is actually into the structure of the vehicle and it makes you know loading the rear hatch a bit more difficult but we're assuming that's okay if you're looking for the track performance this thing delivers also giving you that performance are these Michelin Pilot Sport cup tires which are basically track oriented tires that you can drive on the street but as we wake our way to the front of the thing what really matters is what's under the hood that's right there's actually a hole in the hood of this thing and that's because this engine is so tall it's tall because it has a larger supercharger and a bunch of added cooling on it to help it you know keep at the right temperature the supercharger is way larger than the one on the zo six and it has a more cooling capacity and the downside is it's taller so it pops literally through the hood the cool thing is from the top you can actually see this shake when you're looking at it from you know a camera from the top of the vehicle this all makes for 755 horsepower making this the most powerful Corvette ever now what's important about that is this not just the power but likewise everything in the car has to be built to accommodate and be able to drive to the level of speed this thing can develop that's why you had the massive cooling so I had the aerodynamics and that's why I had the electronic sophistication inside [Applause] we had a lot of time to take this car on the track yesterday and I've had the night to think about things Matt today two crews on the road and see how this extreme performance machine deals with the sort of more civil minded stuff of street driving the track impressions remain this thing is unquestionably one of the most capable cars you can get from a dealer these days a lot of that's besides the point now because we're on the street we have speed limits they have the ever - present threat of law enforcement around every corner so the question is what does this car feel like in public when you slow this car down it feels like a more powerful Corvette you don't get much tram lining from these big wheels though we as the front end doesn't want to follow grooves in the pavement it is louder it is a little firmer but it's certainly livable on a day to day basis that's surprising for a vehicle of this capability normally these track oriented cars are so hardcore that you wouldn't want to drive them to the racetrack but let's face it you spend more time driving to the track than you do on the track and the fact that this thing works well in both disciplines is really impressive I can also dial everything back and cruise and not feel like I'm getting punished for driving a hardcore track machine that's a that's a really nice accomplishment that's something that you won't find in cars that are this fast and costs maybe double this much the engine in this car dominates the entire experience you can't miss the engine and the whole friend this car is sort of a shrine to it the way it pops out of the hood the way it's covered with coolers around the sides it is the experience of this car and that does make driving this thing special and also the fact that it doesn't look half bad either in fact I think it has some of the coolest looking wheels currently available on a new car this car as we mentioned this car has the track package the track package on this car gives you what they call competition bucket seats which are a little wide for my tastes but I'm you know not the widest person in the world this automatic transmission works well I mean there's so much torque again out of this engine that it can be very smooth and almost imperceptible its clunky on occasion I think I'd might opt for the manual although Chevy tells me about 80 % of its customers will go for the automatic I don't think they're gonna be disappointed and that's gonna be the faster transmission drag strip on the street - and on the racetrack man it was a little bit more satisfying to my taste though we've talked about the exhaust I have it set in the track setting let's quiet it down a little bit so you can hear the difference now I've set that separately from everything else so let's put it stealth what happened to the engine sound that's pretty that's pretty amazing man stealth is really stealth and then go back to track Wow actually a really big difference that's that's pretty great the Corvette has always been a strong value proposition and nowhere is that more evident than this zr1 giving you a nearly unbeatable track performance per dollar now the nice thing is on the road this doesn't feel like a ragged edge track machine either you could genuinely drive it every day the compromises are few and that's what makes this car so special if you like what you see keep it tuned right here and be sure to visit Edmunds.com [Music]

I'm rather surprised any e-pubs put their work into print, since I've heard some pretty discouraging stories about authors» electronic royalties taking a big hit due to returns of their print titles.

To little surprise, but plenty of outrage, CNN's take on the subject was a pretty big over-simplification and make sweeping generalizations about entire mediums of entertainment.

Thus, it's no surprise that the earnings are capped at a pretty low amount each month, since these people aren't typically big spenders.

I am at least a little bit surprised you didn't know that half of the world has inverted seasons, since that's actually a pretty big thing!

Most issues of Famitsu have surprising scoops, but when the magazine teases the scoop in advance it usually ends up being something pretty big.

Alex S. from Link - Cable writes: «A few days ago Sony finally revealed their E3 2018 plans and to say that they caught their fans and industry observers by surprise would be a pretty big understatement.

2017 has been a pretty decent year for gaming with a lot of good games already out and even more on the way, including a couple very big releases that have a surprising thread running through the two of them:

There are some minor spoilers there but they pretty much tell you at the start of the game what you need to do to complete the story so it is not going to be a big surprise anyway.

Big surprise: they're pretty damn good.

This came as a nice surprise seeing as he has quite a big connection to Shao Khan who overall seems pretty unbalanced in MK9.

Well this is certainly a good surprise, was thinking of importing this seeing as I'm a pretty big fan of Blazblue, glad I held off on it.

But the big surprise was the fact that the PlayStation 3 pretty much doubled its sales numbers, reaching almost 35,000 gaming devices sold in one week.

I was pleasantly surprised that the leap backward was less painful than I expected — while the visuals were of course less desirable, Kazuma Kiryu had just as many special moves in combat, and Kamurocho was still pretty big — of course lacking some of the finer details that Yakuza 4 had.

This is actually a bit surprising, even to me, because I've never really been a Star Wars fan, and there are some pretty big things about the game that I don't like, from its business model to its combat.

From a shooter renaissance to a continuation of fantastic indie darlings and some big surprise hits from AAA developers, 2016 was a pretty remarkable year for gamers of every ilk and the momentum does nt seem to be stopping anytime soon with both February and March of 2017 packing some terrific looking games as well as console launches.

It was pretty surprising to hear Bethesda joining the lineup of major, press event - hosting big boys that include Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA and Ubisoft, but now we know that Square Enix too is planning to bludgeon us with the News Stick from a conference stage.

Considering that artists have traditionally taken an antagonistic stance towards big business, you might be surprised to learn that in the case of Red Bull Arts New York (formerly known as Red Bull Studios), the answer to this question is: pretty good!

They're pretty nonchalant and usually modestly sized, so it's surprising to see how big and majestic the new paintings in his «Flat Screen Nature» show at Kohn Gallery are.

State motor vehicle departments keep track of even the smallest infractions, and you'd be surprised how quickly a few minor moving violations can add up to a pretty big chunk out of your pocketbook, usually in the form of higher car insurance premiums.

I felt your top pick could have gone either way between these two products, but I'm surprised you made no mention of most of these issues, which I think are a pretty big deal for someone who wants to drop several hundred dollars on bulbs promising «16.7 million colors».

Fitness trackers have put a pretty big dent in the utility of smartwatches, so it's not surprising that Google has taken some time to improve the capabilities of Google Fit.