Word: off-guard
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...most compelling film and because it's still profoundly weird, a typical Jar-mush of genre bending and ethnic blending, a grafting of European modernism and Japanese mysticism onto an American gangster movie. Caught in this crossfire of the contemplative and the violent, the viewer is kept as off-guard as most of the killers in the film...
...right. The rolling, the falling, the kicking and the joint locking had caught me a little off-guard. But I was fascinated--addicted would probably be more accurate...
...fast Tiger scoring caught the Crimson off-guard, and created a large deficit that lasted most of the night...
...around this problem is to catch the audience off-guard, to confront them with their own existence while they're in that state of nonjudgment. To have the actors in a production approach individual members of the audience during the production--to surprise the audience with the fact that they can be observed--might just work. This is exactly the technique used by the Institute for Advanced Theater Training in their production of Bertolt Brecht's St. Joan of the Stockyards three weeks ago in the Loeb Ex, and it works wonders. To feel sympathy for a beggar...
Late in the second period, Shewchuk scored the 100th goal of her career. After a Francisco shot, everyone on the ice except Shewchuk lost sight of the puck. Catching Brewer off-guard, she drove the shot into the open far side...