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Chinese officials may have been genuinely surprised that, in the event, Western reaction was overwhelmingly negative.
ECONOMIST: Tibet
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So he was genuinely surprised when he got the call from David Cameron telling him that was what had happened.
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They drove around in their bakkies (pick-up trucks), killing black pedestrians at random, and seemed genuinely surprised when black policemen shot back at them.
ECONOMIST: Eugene Terre'Blanche
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He seemed genuinely surprised by my resistance to his brilliant idea.
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He seemed genuinely surprised that the cash-strapped voters didn't buy his idea of conquering the galaxy, but a prophet in his own land is always without honor.
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He surrounds himself by advisers who tell him what he wants to hear, and he may have been genuinely surprised by which way the United States came down.
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But a spokesman for Torbay social services said they had been "genuinely surprised" that they were to be visited by the taskforce because of their excellent track record for adoption.
BBC: Councils failing adoption process
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The reporter asking about Gen Y and their use of technology and social media was genuinely surprised to hear me suggest that to a Gen Y, texting was not a way to avoid intimacy in their conversations.
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Reagan sounds genuinely surprised in his diary about the Iran-contra mess, in which his people sold weapons to Iran and then sent some of the money to the contras, the rebels trying to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.
ECONOMIST: Ronald Reagan
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Benedict seemed genuinely surprised by the warm reception he received as well as the harsh criticism when things went wrong, as they did when he lifted the excommunication of a bishop who turned out to be a Holocaust-denier.
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Despite wearing jeans, we went anyway and was so surprised and touched by how genuinely nice everyone was to me, the underdressed American.
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