Word: off-guard
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...from the breezily defiant “(I’ll Never Be) Your Maggie May,” to the lithe, staccato “Solitaire.” Yet the punch is all in her lyrics, full of extended metaphors and vivid imagery that catch the listener off-guard like a pit-trap in the leafy beauty of her music. She has Michael Stipe’s talent for turning unmanageable turns of phrase into effortless cadences. There are few who could sing, “Look at all the waifs of Dickensian England / Why is it their...
When Larry Ellison mentioned to a Wall Street Journal reporter that he was planning to give $150 million to either Harvard or Stanford, he caught the development offices of both schools off-guard...
...letter seemed to catch some Faculty members off-guard...
...sense; if he is Hamlet’s half-brother, and he is a bastard son, then he can be jealous of Hamlet’s brother, which fit the story I had already written. So I added it two days before the first reading, which caught my producer off-guard, and my stage manager. That’s the great thing about doing your own work: you can change things...
...housing officials, too, were caught off-guard by the e-mail...