Sentence examples for Hardly startling from inspiring English sources
Hardly startling, but again it took the supreme court to point out what many in the legal profession thought to be obvious.
The results of the surveys are hardly startling.
An anchovy and olive sauce for dipping was better, but hardly startling.
This argument is fine, though hardly startling, and one does have to negotiate an awful lot of invented obstacles to get there.
I have been researching my past for two decades, since I was in high school, so finding a new ancestor is hardly startling.
While hardly startling territory for a singer-songwriter, the juxtaposition of Dan's wavering delivery with stirring dance rhythms functions as a kind of emotional double whammy.
And it paves the way for saying that positive psychology has become a moneymaking enterprise, which is hardly a startling observation in the midst of this book's parade of saccharine hucksters.
Obviously, some caveats, before we start: the blindness reported in this journal is temporary, i.e. up to but not exceeding 15 minutes; it was only reported by two women, aged 22 and 40, so hardly a startling sample size; they were both looking at their phones in a darkened room; they were both looking at their phones through one eye.
When she notes that one torturer's methods were "so brutal and pathological that I will not describe" them, you can hardly imagine how startling those things might be, because she's held little back.
At the gallery entrance, a noisy industrial machine by Robert Chambers shoots air in your face to slightly startling but hardly dangerous effect.
