"To say we are pleased and proud is an understatement," said Steve Fisher, the interim coach who was unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight when Frieder quit.

He felt like an actor upon the stage, an understudy perhaps who had been unexpectedly thrust into the piercing light of prominence.

Without ceremony they were thrust unexpectedly into the throne room of Nirnrood.

Jake was unexpectedly thrust into one of Oakdale's biggest stories when he inadvertently hired the baby nurse who helped to hold Emily Stewart hostage.

After failing for decades to live up to its founders' expectations, the United Nations has been thrust unexpectedly into a more active role in several trouble spots.

After the mayor was unexpectedly thrust onto a national stage by Hurricane Katrina, the national reviews of his sometimes erratic performance were generally unfavorable.

And in the way of such things, the practice became a kind of vice for the wealthy, into which class Conrad found himself unexpectedly thrust.

I should have known better; he was not a being who enjoyed having demands unexpectedly thrust upon him.

Frequently, in the early days, these were thrust upon him unexpectedly.

This is a story of two families thrust unexpectedly together and forced to navigate deep religious and ethnic divides.