Sentence examples for capable of startling from inspiring English sources

By Thomas Mallon Gurganus, naturally inclined to verbal excess, is also capable of startling economies.

Things I didn't think could ever make a comeback — Newt Gingrich and platform shoes — proved capable of startling resurgence.

Realizing that I am, at some part of my core, a violent person capable of startling acts.

For one thing, the lines between good and evil are muddy and shifting, so that the most wicked characters are capable of startling acts of heroism and sacrifice.

His new record includes a song called "That Was Me," an upbeat rock tune on which he demonstrates that his voice is still capable of startling clarity and range.

From this promising starting point, surprise is very much the key to the Deacon show: capable of startling with his often very beautiful, oddball compositions, but still engaging with an audience in the most immediate way, it's fair to say you never quite know what you're going to get.

He compressed the songful introductory sections to get to feverish modal hoedown fiddling and exchanges with Vikku Vinayakaram on the ghatam, a clay pot capable of a startling array of tones.

But the Karolinska group has shown that, given a chance, stem cells are capable of even more startling changes.The biochemical cues that prompt this transformation are, as yet, unknown.

Muppets, like all other anthropomorphic puppets, are capable of the most startling and delightful resemblances to living things.

Her stirring conclusion was this: There is a broad market for female roles of startling complexity and depth, and there are extraordinary women, young and old, capable of the virtuosic demands of such roles.

This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings … The fact that man is capable of action means that the unexpected can be expected from him, that he is able to perform what is infinitely improbable.