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Use "surprisingness" in a sentence
"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."
"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."
"She had added that touch to soften the crude surprisingness of her announcement."