Sentence examples for extraordinarily startling from inspiring English sources
After nearly 150 years, The Luncheon remains extraordinarily startling.
The battle scenes are extraordinarily mucky and violent, but here, as in Tavernier's "Let Joy Reign Supreme" (1975), the intricate protocols of aristocratic sexual passion are the most startling elements.
Hallmarks of his style include a startling attention to detail and extraordinarily subtle variations of color and shading.
Most startling of all, perhaps, is Anna Tolputt as the extraordinarily named Hertha, a bespectacled, bookish image of lovelessness who early on puts a curse on her hateful town, like some strange harbinger of Stephen King's "Carrie".
The fingers are often separated and splayed in extraordinarily hyperextended positions; the hands, making one declaration after another (often with startling asymmetry), are seldom raised above the level of the forehead.
Towards the end of these weary scenes from ordinary, but extraordinarily difficult everyday life, a black dot grows to almost fill the screen, a strange and startling irruption.
But with all the loose talk about permanent damage to this institution or that, remember: Things change with startling speed in modern American politics, and the institutions of American government have proved extraordinarily resilient.
It is a startling thesis and one extraordinarily unwelcome to those who think capitalism and inequality need each other.
