It’s not particularly Dickensian or Miltonian, though it does feature a wholly unexpected extended riff on Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
The essential kindness of Bill and Ted|Alissa Wilkinson|August 28, 2020|Vox
One day, Selin strikes up an email correspondence with a boy she’s barely spoken to, and their relationship begins to develop in strange and unexpected ways.
This September, the Vox Book Club is reading Elif Batuman’s The Idiot|Constance Grady|August 28, 2020|Vox
He had unexpected success in managing Japan’s fraught relationships with its most important ally, the United States, and its largest trade partner, China.
The legacy Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister, will leave after resigning|claychandler|August 28, 2020|Fortune
Manufacturers in some industries can expect unexpected events to erase the majority of a year’s profits over the course of a decade—and that’s just the baseline, accounting for probabilities like recurring storms and shipping snafus.
COVID-19 and climate change expose the dangers of unstable supply chains|matthewheimer|August 27, 2020|Fortune
That geopolitical events would provide a push toward tech decoupling was unexpected.
The Chinese and U.S. Internets are drifting apart. Why that’s bad for the whole world|jakemeth|August 21, 2020|Fortune
Airline pilots are now slowly, too slowly, being given access to flight simulators able to reproduce sudden and unexpected upsets.
Did Bad Weather Bring Down AirAsia 8501?|Clive Irving|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now imagine that one day hope appeared, an unexpected opportunity to free yourself, to finally be yourself.
The Insurance Company Promised a Gender Reassignment. Then They Made a Mistake.|James Joiner|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And the chord structure, for those of you who play an instrument, is unexpected and worth checking out.
Yes, I Like Christmas Music. Stop Laughing.|Michael Tomasky|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
During this time, Mailer also displayed an unexpected humility in the company of his fellow literary stars.
Mailer’s Letters Pack a Punch and a Surprising Degree of Sweetness|Ronald K. Fried|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Return of the King had Smeagol, An Unexpected Journey featured Frodo and an older Bilbo.
‘No Regrets’: Peter Jackson Says Goodbye to Middle-Earth|Alex Suskind|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I have plucked a bunch of leaves in an unexpected swoop in-shore.
The Sea and the Jungle|H. M. Tomlinson
The words were so intense, so spontaneous and unexpected, that Loder took a step back.
The Masquerader|Katherine Cecil Thurston
The wild animal, apparently stupified by her unexpected violence, was detained by her till despatched by a bullet.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon|J. Emerson Tennent
So Hans became another factor in the problem the unexpected had given Edith Nelson to solve.
Love of Life|Jack London
That is a little longer than I calculated, but it was due to unexpected troubles.