Sentence examples for a startling thesis from inspiring English sources

It is a startling thesis and one extraordinarily unwelcome to those who think capitalism and inequality need each other.

Stephen Campbell Moore's beady and plausible young supply teacher is a spin historian who advises candidates to jettison candour in favour of any startling thesis with which they can catch the eye of a jaded examiner.

So what if whatever startling thesis he happens to be advancing doesn't always apply to every situation?

Like previous American governments, the Bush administration had been turned by clever lobbying into what Lenin would have called Zionism's useful idiots.This startling thesis is, to say the least, provocative.

Perhaps his most startling thesis (built on elementary mathematics) was the "impossibility theorem" (or "Arrow's theorem"), which holds that, under certain conditions of rationality and equality, it is impossible to guarantee that a ranking of societal preferences will correspond to rankings of individual preferences when more than two individuals and alternative choices are involved.

She sobs--a startling, terrible sound.

Hung in the same gallery are paintings by Albert Bierstadt, John Frederick Kensett, James McNeill Whistler and John Henry Twachtman that further the American-landscape thesis — but also a startling Precisionist cityscape of New York by Georgia O'Keeffe, made in the late 1920s before she forged a new version of modernism in the American West.

This is a startling development.

It was a startling thing.

A startling piece of news.

This was a startling idea.