Sentence examples for a startling idea from inspiring English sources

This was a startling idea.

The academic scientists came up with a startling idea.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, someone came up with a startling idea.

Still, the show floats a startling idea: Warhol made some of his best paintings during these years.

When The Economist declared ten years ago that Canada was "cool", with its mix of social liberalism and fiscal rectitude, it was a startling idea.

He was no scandalmonger, yet our first conversation indirectly lent weight to a startling idea: that Brian Epstein's death in 1967, which spelled the beginning of the end for the Beatles, might have been no accident, as the inquest found, but murder.

They put the customer first, an apparently startling idea the Big Three automakers have yet to embrace.

That was a startling thought.

In 1937, fearing the worst, and suffering an injury incurred in World War I, Jean Renoir made "Grand Illusion," a picture that hardly has a shot fired and that confronts the startling idea that Frenchmen and Germans are alike enough to be friends.

"It was a startling new idea," says Joseph Robinson, a pharmacologist at the State University of New York, Syracuse.

Severe cases can be life-threatening, and the medical profession is gradually coming to accept the somewhat startling idea that sometimes the best therapy is a fecal transplant — from a healthy person to the one who is sick, to replenish the population of "good germs".