Yet apart from talking about the surprisingness or not of their community, celebrating the illustrative likenesses and un-likenesses of its members, its differences in relationship, there is little else we can say about this connection. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Secular Conviviality] Reference
In a narrative that alternates between the characters 'viewpoints — twelve-year-old Astrid, a kind of junior Lydia Davis, is a particularly wonderful voice — Smith maintains a playful, poetic idiom of startling and clarifying emotional power, so that the prose, in its logical beauty and its surprisingness, serves as an analogue of the enchantment dispensed by Amber. From Wordnik.com. [New fiction] Reference
My second collection, Angel, came out of the surprisingness of that process. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
She had added that touch to soften the crude surprisingness of her announcement. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Soldier] Reference
For there is a great accent of pleasure and delightfulness certainly added to them by the surprisingness of them, when they come most unexpectedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference
Familiarity had robbed the fact of some of its surprisingness, but there remained a substratum of wonder, not removed even by the sight of his betrothed's photograph and the information that she was a distant relative who had been brought up with him from infancy. From Wordnik.com. [Frivolous Cupid] Reference
The public may not be so good a judge either of the building or of the drawing: but, knowing nothing of the technical difficulties, it at least forms its judgment on the true criterion which is, of course, the value of the product, not the surprisingness of its having been produced or the difficulties overcome in its production. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
No no anne, right you are. i read "liberals" to be plural, and thus mistakenly assumed that you were referring not only to ezra's post which, upon linking through, manages to not in any way make your point, with such an exquisite lack of surprisingness it is like the sun rising in the east but also to the referenced atrios post. From Wordnik.com. [Liberals ideate furiously over the black-and-white McCain website.] Reference
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