Sentence examples for a startling image from inspiring English sources

"It was a startling image," he said.

Setting aside the wisdom of that investment advice, it's a startling image.

It is a startling image, and one that was not, initially, well received here.

Once seen, Gbehanzin's portrait stays in the mind; it's a startling image of transformation with a gripping story.

There is also a startling image of a newborn baby who seems to have tumbled from the birth canal right onto the page.

In a startling image, one horse rolls back onto its side, as if suddenly pushed, as it falls into deep sleep.

When his series of 15 five-minute exposures is done, he has a truly startling image: a fragment of a supernova, a star that exploded 25,000 years ago.

Here, he turns his outsider's eye on contemporary Blackpool in a single startling image entitled simply A Saturday Night Out in Blackpool, 2010.

It's a nifty, startling image, even if it transforms Mr. Cavill, a pretty man whose body has been inflated to Bluto-esque proportions, into barbecue beefcake.

It is a truly startling image, carried through with real virtuosity, to an ending in which: "The world's sick sweetness hooks your throat,/ and all our songs and lamentations coalesce – / a hornet's nest that will not let you sleep".

Greene devised the plot, which had its origins in a single startling image he'd jotted down on the flap of an envelope: "I had paid my last farewell to Harry a week ago when his coffin was lowered into the frozen February ground, so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by without sign of recognition, among the host of strangers in the Strand".