Use "expectedness" in a sentence
expectedness example sentences
expectedness
1. Suddenly entering the forecourt of an ancient mosque, the huge studded gates of the old fort, or peering into the courtyard of a sultan’s palace are memories that stick with me because of their complete unexpectedness
2. The unexpectedness and violence stunned her; she had only a confused impression of a whirl of happenings—the terrifying grip of a mighty arm, the blazing eyes of her abductor, and his hot breath burning on her flesh
3. I gave a start from the unexpectedness of the action
4. It was this sense, this feeling, this real feeling of not feeling a synthesized or prefabricated emotion that surprised Unitito, which, in turn, was a surprise to one who could not feel surprise, but was designed to express wonder and unexpectedness when properly cued
5. Coming "as a thief" shows the unexpectedness of His coming; no one knows
6. The Zoarinians were thrown into complete turmoil at the unexpectedness of the attack of arrows that dropped thousands of unsuspecting soldiers
7. Coming "as a thief" shows the unexpectedness of His coming; no one
8. Coming "as a thief" shows the unexpectedness of His coming; no one knows what day or year
9. "as a thief" shows the unexpectedness of His coming; no one knows what day or year
10. THE WAY HE SAID THIS, the unexpectedness of this scene, first the biography of this patriotic ship, then the excitement with which this eccentric individual pronounced these last words—the name Avenger whose significance could not escape me—all this, taken together, had a profound impact on my mind
11. I took a deep breath, enjoying the unexpectedness of it all
12. to Captain Mitchell, the suddenness, unexpectedness, and general inconceivableness of this experience had confused his thoughts
13. She almost gasped aloud in the shock of its unexpectedness
14. He was simply regarding the harrowing contingencies of human experience, the unexpectedness of things
15. The unexpectedness of his presence, the grotesqueness of his appearance in a gathered smockfrock, such as was now worn only by the most old-fashioned of the labourers, had a ghastly comicality that chilled her as to its bearing
16. On the eleventh night after my latest encounter with that gentleman—they were all numbered now—I had an alarm that perilously skirted it and that indeed, from the particular quality of its unexpectedness, proved quite my sharpest shock
17. But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Marya Dmitrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions- the least effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp her foot- which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual severity
18. ‘No, it’s only the unexpectedness of it,’ thought Pierre
19. She reckoned on working upon me by the sudden blow, the shock, the unexpectedness of it
20. and, on the other hand, she imagined that even if I had made up my mind to give up the letter, to Katerina Nikolaevna for instance, I should only do so under special conditions, and she made haste to anticipate those conditions by the suddenness, the unexpectedness of her master-stroke
21. This appearance and disappearance of a still living human head was so horrible, but at the same—either from its rapidity and unexpectedness or from the dropping of the spectacles—there was something so comic about it that I suddenly quite unexpectedly exploded with laughter
22. In Moscow their fortunes changed with the swiftness of lightning and the unexpectedness of an Arabian fairy-tale
23. The unexpectedness of this sally on the part of the hitherto silent old man caused some laughter among the intruders
24. The utterly unexpected arrival of Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, who was not expected for another month, was not only strange from its unexpectedness but from its fateful coincidence with the present moment
25. And his choice always surprised people by its unexpectedness
26. The unexpectedness of the action produced a painful shock
27. "On your knees!" he squealed, to the surprise of every one, to his own surprise too, and perhaps the very unexpectedness of the position was the explanation of what followed
28. In music the most usual effects are a crescendo, passing from the softest and simplest sounds to the loudest and most complex crash of the full orchestra; a repetition of the same sounds arpeggio in all the octaves and on various instruments; or that the harmony, tone, and rhythm be not at all those naturally flowing from the course of the musical thought, but such as strike one by their unexpectedness
29. But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Márya Dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual severity
30. “No, it’s only the unexpectedness of it,” thought Pierre
31. Our presence here, our application for your assistance, and above all the unexpectedness of such a phenomenon as a systematic organisation of thieves, with delegates who are thieves, and a leader of the deputation, also a thief by profession—it is all so original that it must inevitably arouse a smile
32. The unexpectedness of this appearance on the afternoon when she had given up the idea of coming in contact with his like and circle again—the fact of meeting him in the open street, where there was no one but himself to critically observe her manner—gave her a shock of pleasure
