Smith wished River Song's entrance to be a shocking surprise to the audience.
It had been a shocking surprise to realize she missed the company of her brothers.
What had the man expected, dropping that obsolete datum on her as if it were some shocking surprise?
He noted, with almost shocking surprise, that some one had been able to serve him thus without waking him.
If blasted oak, it denotes sudden and shocking surprises.
In one mission, Bridge and the others experienced Cable's teleportation technology, a beneficial but shocking surprise.
However, there are several far more shocking surprises in store for Pierre.
The end result can be a series of shocking technological surprises that everyone but the enthusiasts had forecast all along.
I was thinking ahead to the massive ramifications of the assassin's capture, and the even more shocking surprise still to come.
The shocking surprise is how little the station would contribute to the nation's long-range space goals.