Sentence examples for a single striking from inspiring English sources

Marable's prose is efficient but blandly anonymous – there is barely a single striking or memorable phrase.

Sometimes the effect was melded into a single striking outfit, but too often the effect was of busy energy that needed to settle down.

Eagleton presents his book as the fruit of "a single, striking thought: what if all the objections to Marx's thought are mistaken?" In order to demonstrate this, each of the chapters of this erudite yet breezy (occasionally too breezy) tract begins with a series of assertions about Marx and Marxism, which Eagleton then proceeds to debunk, one by one.

Rather than a single striking tone, it's a rainbow of smaller colours.

I Saw a Man arose entirely from that single striking image of a man easing open his neighbours' back door, which dropped into Sheers' head fully formed, "the first time that's happened to me.

Not much younger than Beckett was when he was named last year's World Series M.V.P. Harrington retired the side, giving up only a single and striking out one batter.

Zito faced Hamilton three times, giving up a single and striking him out twice.

With "one nation", that single striking phrase, he was able to offer a critique of the existing social order under the Tories, while simultaneously offering the hope of a better one under Labour.

Over the same time period, the project's costs grew dramatically, rising from an original budget of $115m to a reported $200m – without a single shovel ever striking paydirt.

The side-impact oblique pole test simulates a single vehicle's striking a tree or a utility pole or a vehicle's being struck in the side by a higher-riding vehicle.

Almost immediately, Tensing yells "stop" and fires a single shot, fatally striking DuBose in the head.