refreshing
The characters in the play are refreshingly original.
Refreshingly, she seemed very natural.
The place was refreshingly different from his home town.
Its a light, golden ale, refreshingly clean on the palate.

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refreshingly | American Dictionary

refreshingly
adverb
us/rɪˈfreʃ·ɪŋ·li/
pleasantly and unexpectedly:
a refreshingly honest statement

Examples of refreshingly

refreshingly
It is both deadly serious and refreshingly thoughtful, definitely a friendly-priced good read.
To sum up, this book is very clearly written and presented throughout, and refreshingly free of jargon and conceptual obfuscation.
The approach is refreshingly free from functional programming 'religion'.
Refreshingly, they do not claim stellar performance, nor that automatic speech recognition has been solved by their work.
Its limitation, though, is also its strength: the factual history is stunning in its range, and the book presents its opinions refreshingly freely.
Yeates takes a refreshingly critical approach to the subject, successfully describing the different conceptual nuances of globalisation with great clarity.
It is refreshingly clear of rose tints and strongly challenges them to sort out their own house.
However, other articles do provide refreshingly new data or new ammunition to existing factual arsenals.
A general characteristic of the book is that the argumentation is often refreshingly even-handed.
Students will find it easily accessible, refreshingly free of jargon and unnecessary technicalities, well focused on the key issues.
The samples are refreshingly entertaining and informative, but brevity intervenes here so pressingly that there is little attempt to give any feeling of completeness.
Most of the book is refreshingly simple to read.
And the coordination account is refreshingly realistic in declining to invoke the sorts of fictions often deployed to explain legal authority.
In other words, it is refreshingly devoid of clear heroes and villains.
It offers a refreshingly original alternative to the existing policy frameworks, and hopefully its readership will extend beyond those working on pensions.
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