In a used bookstore, thumbing through a carwreck of a novelization, (which shall remain nameless to protect the guilty) when I came across this gem:
“His gaze darted around nervously, as if apprehensive that somehow, in some insane fashion, someone would suddenly manage to pop out of hiding and surprise him.”
It was so dreadful it was almost entertaining, but I “suddenly managed” to put it back in the discount bin.