Joan Didion

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

American Author

Robert Winston

I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.

British Scientist

Rick Nielsen

We tried to act trendy. We took one of our songs and tried to make a dance mix. They put it on the turntables, unannounced, in Los Angeles and New York the same weekend, where they had a big dance crowd going wild. It cleared the floor on both coasts.

American Musician

Joe Morton

My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.

American Actor

Zephyr Teachout

I propose a full day of live one-on-one debates on unannounced issues, with no aides to help or reply. Each candidate would be paired with another candidate for seven 60-minute sessions.

American Lawyer

Dick Durbin

I've been out to Walter Reed on unannounced visits. I've seen these soldiers. I've met their families.

American Politician

Francois Englert

I feel squeezed like a lemon - interviewers and people keep turning up unannounced at my office!

Belgian Physicist

George Will

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Journalist

Unannounced events aren't planned openly, so they surprise people who are unprepared.

Not Scheduled

Often used by people in power, like bosses or inspectors, to check on things without prior notice.

Authority Element

The suddenness can evoke strong feelings, like anxiety or excitement.

Emotional Impact

Indicates spontaneous actions which often capture real, unprepared reactions.

Candid Moments

More common in casual speech among friends or family, signalling informality.

Casual Tone

Adds an element of surprise or tension in stories and news.

Narrative Suspense

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 to use the crowd control techniques with the audience of the museum it was an unannounced performance so people behaved freely and accordingly to their own social conditioning according to their own political memories and

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 Briggs showed up unannounced at Napier's castle door and suggested that John switch the base and form of his logarithms into something much simpler. They both agreed that a base of 10 with the log of one equal to zero

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 I want you to imagine that you are a Child Protective Services worker. And you have to respond to a report of child abuse. You walk into a home, unannounced, unexpected, certainly uninvited.