Sentence examples for I was startled to read from inspiring English sources

I was startled to read, in an article about Rinder by Peter Plagens in Newsweek, that the two artists who most moved me almost didn't make the cut.

Yet, as a very infrequent but contented user of both Lunesta and Ambien myself, I was startled to read efficacy trials for those drugs submitted to the F.D.A.

Starting up my comically enormous, seven-seater Cadillac SRX the other day, I was startled to read the following electronic message on the dashboard: "Theft Attempted".

I was startled to read that, in 1981, former President Richard Nixon contributed a thousand dollars "in memory of Edith Head, an Oscar-winning costume designer and a friend of his wife, Patricia".

I was startled to read that The Times Magazine's editor distrusted a legal opinion from El Salvador because he, personally, believes that "El Salvador's judicial system is terribly politicized".

I was startled to read about a patient's experience with one of these systems, and the inaccurate data he discovered in his file, as reported this week in The Boston Globe.

After a small kerfuffle in The Archers, I remember Brian Aldridge opened his script and was startled to read: "Brian falls down in an epileptic fit".

One day, in a unisex bathroom frequented mainly by graduate students at Yale's Sterling Library, she was startled to read on a bathroom stall, "I'm in love with a girl named Heather, but she doesn't love me".

A friend of Betsy Gotbaum, the public advocate, was startled to read the other day about Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's penchant for flying helicopters.

By the time Mike arrived home from the meeting the council had rushed out a press statement claiming the matter had been resolved, and he was startled to read that his father had "had his wishes granted".

While in Australia, Findlay was startled to read that Nicholls and Paul Barber, who owns the stable as well as the other half of Denman, were considering a tilt at last weekend's Hennessy Gold Cup in Ireland, a much more challenging target.