Sentence examples for a startling argument from inspiring English sources

Yesterday, Mr. Smith's lawyers made a startling argument as they sought to delay the trial.

LAST July, when the Dow Jones industrial average was still stuck below 12,900 and investors were seeking safety in bonds, Seth J. Masters made a startling argument.

They make a startling argument for the old ways: black-and-white film, a view camera and negatives printed by the photographer in actual size.

That is not a startling statement.

It is a startling statement.

Make a startling statement.

She can, she has said, make statements that a white person simply could not: on the "dangers" posed to the west not just by radical, but by regular Islam; on the "backward" nature of the religion; on how "terrible" the Qur'an is; and, in the most startling argument of her new book, Nomad (a follow-up to her bestselling memoir Infidel), how Muslims would do well to learn from Christianity.

One article, published in The New Yorker on July 31 , 1995 six days before the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and consuming almost the entire issue, made the startling argument that the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not persuade the Japanese to surrender.

She sobs--a startling, terrible sound.

This is a startling development.

This was a startling idea.