Sentence examples for certainly startling from inspiring English sources

The contrast between domestic diets now and in 1942, when reliable records began, is certainly startling.

The effect is certainly startling, even uncanny — Jean Cocteau's "Orpheus" and Georges Franju's "Eyes Without a Face" both come to mind — but once you recognize the trompe l'oeil its impact quickly deflates.

Using facial recognition software developed by the CIA, Rousseau produced videos which show that the similarity between Deakin's cross-dressing sitters and these men is, if not conclusive, then certainly startling.

The clear-eyed aim with which he seems to be laying out this flashback, this attempt to push the dysfunction at the heart of "Infinite Jest" back one generation, is certainly startling.

The fee is being held up as another sign of football's excesses and it is certainly startling that there are second-tier clubs – one just promoted from League One – who are now willing to throw that kind of money at a player the Premier League teams have decided to pass up.

So it was certainly startling to see that a Chronicle story about the Holy Redeemer Church Hall in the city's Castro district had asserted a drag-queen known as Peaches Christ had appeared there, "with a dildo shaped like a crucifix".

In short, they argue, the growth of renewable energy is undermining established utilities and replacing them with something less reliable and much more expensive.Power downThe decline of Europe's utilities has certainly been startling.

Certainly his startling appearance — a dusky orange tan that suggests a charbroiled George Hamilton and an elevated pouf of hair that appears to have been engineered to put Mr. Pacino within vertical range of his female co-stars — suggests a level of vanity that might make an intervention difficult.

"David Copperfield," may not have all the answers, but it certainly poses a startling number of the questions.

It keeps the viewer on edge and off balance, and certainly constitutes a startling formal challenge thrown down to the audience.

One of his assertions, and certainly the most startling, was that some parents were removing their children from literacy programs for fear that they would no longer be eligible for federal aid in the form of Supplemental Security Income.