Perry Rhodan needed a few seconds to recover from this surprising statement.

Then something happens between mugger and victim that raises the poem into a surprising statement of courage.

From a man who revels in moral ambiguities, this was a surprising statement.

It is a surprising statement to read in retrospect.

"I don't want to waste my time here on this earth," she once said to me, a surprising statement for such a young girl.

The surprising statement comes as Arabs close ranks against Damascus.

On the surface of it, this did not seem too surprising a statement.

He was not without a surprising statement or two.

Having silenced us all by this surprising statement, he went on in the same gentle, hesitant voice.

There was a silence after this surprising statement.