The website of the broadsheet newspaper Aftenposten carried a headline on Tuesday evening with a quote from a Swedish psychiatrist expressing surprise.

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The Norwegian public, politicians and experts alike are expressing surprise at the verdict of insanity delivered by the forensic psychiatrists assessing Anders Behring Breivik.

BBC: Norwegian disbelief at Breivik 'insanity'

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, expressing surprise at the announcement, said the US had decided "to place all its best on an armed victory of the Syrian National Coalition".

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New Zealander Williams, 47, has caddied for Australia's Adam Scott at the last two majors and he later issued his own statement confirming that he would now caddie for Scott permanently, while expressing surprise at Woods' decision.

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The England international was recently quoted expressing his surprise that more of his compatriots were not playing abroad and suggesting doing so would help them improve.

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It was very cold, but still we sat until the darkness had a brown edge to it, and my mother came to the door, expressing no surprise at seeing me there.

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He launched into his routine, all expressing a wildly apathetic view of life, and it caught his clients by surprise.

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