Sentence examples for a startling contrast from inspiring English sources

If correct, the estimates make for a startling contrast with the American estimates a year ago, when commanders said they believed that there were no more than 5,000 insurgents across the whole of Iraq.

This is a startling contrast with other industrialized nations.

There is a startling contrast of strengths and weaknesses in Mr. Sernovitz's novel.

The soaring tower, which looks like a 75-story bottle opener, is a startling contrast with its forerunner.

The elegantly designed, congested Walk was a startling contrast to the austere loveliness and relative silence of our bike tour.

Dancers enter with green-leafed branches, a startling contrast in the pale setting, and flagellate themselves like penitents.

Could there be a more startling contrast?

Mr. Schumer and Mr. Emanuel are models of calculated excess, offering an often startling contrast with their Republican counterparts.

And within it is La Pause, a green oasis set beside a riverbed, in startling contrast to the arid land surrounding it.

This startling contrast, a combustible blend of almost painfully personal revelations and familiar political realities, was why people could watch the speech open-mouthed and then have such different reactions afterward.

Mid morning: Life is more fun with a few startling contrasts hurled your way (witness Shanghai's own marriage of atmospherically historic and achingly modern).