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In user interface design and software design, the principle of least astonishment (POLA), also known as principle of least surprise, proposes that a component...

lives contain few surprises, but from the other characters there is one astonishment after another." Stephen Holden from The New York Times commented, "Ms...

unawareness of her powers means that she unconsciously creates a new universe—one more to her liking—and attempts to switch over whenever she becomes bored...

individual behavioral patterns. Surprise may occur due to a violation of one, two, or a combination of all three factors. Surprise does not always have...

rival team boss, "lived without sense, without an analyst, and provoked astonishment and affection from everyone." Ireland was born 12 June 1930 in Mytholmroyd...

a letter from Willem Bilderdijk to his sister-in-law as a remark of astonishment. Webster's dictionary from 1913 traces the etymology of holloa to the...

physical gesture of placing one's hand across one's face, lowering one's face into one's hand or hands or covering or closing one's eyes. The gesture is often...

The seventeenth season of the One Piece anime television series was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Hiroaki Miyamoto and Toshinori Fukuzawa...

Jones put it, "On one occasion she related the details of the first appearance of a particular symptom and, to Breuer's great astonishment, this resulted...

He walks out to a still-full stadium of Marshall fans who share his astonishment and don't want to leave the stadium either. In the film's closing credits...

often seek conversation with me and speak of Massachusetts and to my astonishment I found he knew more about Boston than I did. Some amateur historians...

along to the local burgomaster. To their astonishment, they discover their missing crewman playing for one of the teams. Reunited, they hide in a truck...

their hour of sunshine while Margot is banging on the door. In their astonishment and joy, they all forget about Margot and gleefully rush to play outside...

London: Heinemann, ISBN 0-434-71355-4 Smith, Dodie (1979), Look Back With Astonishment, London: W.H. Allen, ISBN 0-491-02198-4 Grove, Valerie (1996). Dear Dodie:...

rug; as an additional embellishment, he walks past it in one instance to his own astonishment, but then stumbles over it on the way back. In another instance...

lance into the air's tall expanse. The sap rises in the statuesque astonishment of erect roots, under Laocoön-like contortions, from a nettle-woven soil...

were embalmed and buried in sacred repositories. Herodotus expressed astonishment at the domestic cats in Egypt, because he had only ever seen wildcats...

calculation made by Hubble in 1929. He announced this finding to considerable astonishment at the 1952 meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Rome....

The fifteenth season of the One Piece anime television series was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Hiroaki Miyamoto. The season was broadcast...

response in Greek audiences. They would have a feeling of wonder and astonishment at the appearance of the gods, which would often add to the moral effect...