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surprising

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1. surprising - Noun

2. surprising - Adjective

3. surprising - Verb

Meaning

of Surprise

Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Don't be sad, my child. Don't worry so much. Even though you have fallen again, get up again. You have been called to a heavenly road. It is not surprising for someone running to stumble. It just takes patience and repentance at every moment. Joseph the Hesychast

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising. Václav Havel

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. Jean Cocteau

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them. William Osler

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. Alexander Smith

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically. Jean Cocteau

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