61 examples of unexpectedness in sentences

It was, in its unexpectedness, an almost appalling sight to him, as he realised that the two were none other than Henshaw and Edith Morriston.

The speed of it, the unexpectedness, the sheer audacity, held the men around us motionless.

For sheer unexpectedness they about took the biscuit.

It was the unexpectedness of the thing that threw me off my guard.

"Charm, personality, character, the great gift of unexpectedness?" How we draw you to us!

The chief charm of literature, old or new, lies in its high quality of surprise, unexpectedness, spontaneity: high spirits applied to life.

Here we recognize in a consummate degree what has been called the "fingering of the dramatist"; and I know not how better to express the common quality of the two incidents than in saying that each is touched with extraordinary crispness, so as to give to what in both cases has for some time been expected and foreseen a sudden thrill of novelty and unexpectedness.

Although the effects of structure may be astounding in their power or unexpectedness, yet the means by which these effects are brought about are purely mechanical.

Certainly he had not his atmosphere of the beau monde and his grace of style, but in whimsicality and unexpectedness and in that subtle art that makes the obviously impossible seem perfectly plausible and commonplace he surpassed not only him but Edward Everett Hale and all others.

The soul of his art is unexpectedness.

The thought was torture to Jean Servien, the more atrocious from the unexpectedness of the discovery.

His best and brightest remarks surprise us with the unexpectedness of homely common sense, as flashed on a world of organized illusions.

The unexpectedness of the incident took from me all precaution, and overwhelmed my faculties.

They gave full play to his imaginative humor and irony, and to his poetic unexpectedness and surprises.

They would come to her with a pure unexpectedness, they would flame upon her.

The smallest manifestation of unexpectedness disturbed him.

Unexpectedness is an essential element of wit,perhaps, also, of pleasure; and it is the ill-fortune of professional reviewers, not only that surprise is necessarily something as rare with them as a June frost, but that loyalty to their extemporized omniscience should forbid them to acknowledge, even if they felt, so fallible an emotion.

Unexpectedness is also one of the prime components of that singular product called Poetry; and, accordingly, the much-enduring man whose finger-ends have skimmed many volumes and many manners of verse may be pardoned the involuntary bull of not greatly expecting to stumble upon it in any such quarter.

The unexpectedness and fury of the onset, the heavy firing, and the appalling whoops and yells of the throngs of painted savages threw the militia into disorder.

"Good Lord!" ejaculated Miss Maria with all the unexpectedness of Galatea.

The colour of it and the unexpectedness.

After a little he pulled himself back and as he glanced at Rod he laughed in an odd thrilling way, as though he had been startled, but not so much so as Mukoki, who had prepared him for the sight which had struck his own vision with the unexpectedness of a shot in the back.

If the seasons would but change their places a little, and the flowers their order, so that there might be something of unexpectedness about them!

It came with delightful unexpectedness, with no warning of its arrival; simply, one day as he was going to see his lawyer, Mr. (afterwards Sir Nicholas) Hannen, a passing postman handed him a little brown-paper parcel with Swedish stamps on it.

The unexpectedness of this discovery, the peculiar position of the dead man, the loneliness of that deserted field in which he lay, shocked West and, for a moment left him strangely hesitant.

61 examples of  unexpectedness  in sentences