unlooked-for

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Both actors completely inhabit their absorbing roles, relishing the opportunity their exchanges provide and adding unlooked-for layers to a complicated human relationship.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

We have been supplying a legitimate professional demand and not once could have foreseen the unlooked-for results.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2022

Like she did with Bloodborne PSX, Walther will provide daily development updates on her Twitter page, offering neat tidbits into the making of such an unlooked-for but right-on-time project.

From The Verge • Mar. 25, 2022

“Ah those days,” writes Carr in A Month in the Country, which is that extraordinary thing, a novel that manages to bring alive, without sentimentality, a rare, unlooked-for few weeks of gentle happiness.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2018

Edna’s desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had in-creased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin