Sentence examples for are startling for from inspiring English sources

The tales are startling for their grotesque humor, for the light they shed on the draggled hinterland between the civilized and the monstrous.

One Saturday each month, the city shuts down and every homeowner or business owner is responsible for cleaning his property; the results are startling, for a few hours, anyway.

The results are startling, for the database shows many symbols are frequently arranged in specific clusters repeated over and over again in different caves (a negative hand with finger fluting, for example).

Their findings are startling for the sheer number of children--capable, talented and often exceptional--who were simply being left out of gifted and talented pipelines readily available to them because of holes in the nomination process.

First, the price tags are startling: for-profit educators normally expect to pay between 10 and 13 times earnings for a school.

It's startling, for anyone who has seen Submarine, how quickly Roberts has grown up.

The turnaround in Lodz has been startling for a municipality whose population was still declining as recently as three years ago.

Their enthusiasm was startling, for Mr. Cuomo's predecessors have found few adversaries as imposing as hospitals during Albany's budget season.

Even so, it was startling for the Yankees to pile up nine runs off a pitcher with such a sterling résumé.

He seemed, to me at least—and it is startling for me even to utter the thought to be almost normal.

A single blade, gently drooping under its own weight, it is startling for being the opposite of every icon-forging "place-making" tendency that such a design contest usually encourages.