Sentence examples for a startling act from inspiring English sources

To read her is to observe a young woman flaying herself open in a startling act of devotion.

Foxcatcher is downright disturbing, a slowly accreting study of dysfunction and dependence that erupts in a startling act of violence.

The leaders were rebuffed, a startling act of insubordination for a group that prides itself on strict hierarchy and iron discipline.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the first season of the show follows a young mother named Cora (Biel) who randomly commits a startling act of violence.

Then the husband performs a simple, startling act that turns joy into chilling embarrassment, and the party is over.

That's a startling number.

It was a startling number.

A startling number of Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders and South Asian-Americans.

But a startling number were much older.

No longer possessed of her usual mask, Charlotte is forced to gaze inward and discovers a void, albeit a void rendered with self-deprecating wit and the occasional startling act (a desperate seduction involves drunkenly spitting liquor into the mouth of a man who's trying to stay sober).

Interviewed by the Independent about this startling act of self-abnegation, Rankin sounded the way Fred Astaire did when he suggested that his forthcoming appearance in "On the Beach" would be a heaven-sent opportunity not to dance.