Sentence examples for be less startling if from inspiring English sources

The song would be less startling if Chao sang twice as loud.

Rowling's evidence was less startling, but it was delivered in a more harrowed, aggrieved tone.

The Fly weighed half that, yet its lightness was less startling than its balance.

The explanation that followed was less startling than the opening admission.

There, "Berlin" was less startling but no less ambitious or, in the end, touching.

If we consider that most bleached monomers are created at or near the start of bleaching and that such monomers have four seconds to reach the front, then the reported result is less startling.

Interestingly, after taking into account the dropout effects, the discrepancies between the local and published models were less startling.

You can pick a darker or shimmery orange so your look is less startling.

If there were such a community, the Conceptual roots of Eisenman's architecture would be less obscure, and his forms would appear less startling.

If Alan Franks' portrait of Lucian Freud holds our attention, it is less for any startling insights into the nature of art, than for a mesmerising performance by Henry Goodman.

The financial costs are no less startling.