surprisingly

Both teams had some tantalizing near misses in a surprisingly open, if scoreless, first half.

Looking back, Tamuna thinks she was in a state of shock, but as she walked up to Gurgen’s garden gate, she felt surprisingly calm.

He was surprisingly open, though trying not to be.

But in learning to embrace that embarrassment, I’ve found something that feels surprisingly close to joy.

But two months later, as Lincoln Riley looks back to where the tide started to turn for his Trojans front, the coach points, somewhat surprisingly, to that nightmarish afternoon in Ann Arbor.