Sentence examples for feels startling from inspiring English sources

Wilson's choice feels startling and modern: one of the world's oldest stories transposed to the vernacular of Facebook.

If such writing can pass for muscular fiction, what hope is there for authors who spend long hours deleting easy clichés and pointless similes, working hard to create something that feels startling and real and true?

When he makes that complaint about the prophet having no honor in his own home town, or says exasperatedly that there is no point in lighting a candle unless you intend to put it in a candlestick, his voice carries a disdain for the props of piety that still feels startling.

The movement of Shelley's verse imitates the rhythm of orgasm in a way that still feels startling: He reared his shuddering limbs, and quelled His gasping breath, and spread his arms to meet Her panting bosom;... she drew back a while, Then, yielding to the irresistible joy, With frantic gesture and short breathless cry Folded his frame in her dissolving arms.

Van Gaal's side made hard going of it at times and it still feels startling that Old Trafford, a stadium famous for its sense of high drama, has seen the lowest number of goals this season, 15, of all 92 league clubs.

And it was macho, in a manner that felt startling and bold.

And yet it still felt startling to hear it sung on a Saturday evening light-entertainment show.

"A.R.T. needs to feel startling and radical again," she added, "to live up to its legacy of being a beacon by going some surprising places".

"A.R.T. needs to feel startling and radical again, to live up to its legacy of being a beacon by going some surprising places".

They were working with rhythmic concepts Mr. Hill has been investigating for years — at least since "Refuge," which he recorded in 1964 — but the results still felt startling and immediate.

Relocated from the canals of 18th-century Venice to Brighton in the 1960s, Nicholas Hytner's production is a zinging mixture of physical and verbal comedy, farce at its absolute best, and proof that old plays can definitely be made to feel startling and vividly modern.