Sentence examples for given startling from inspiring English sources

While a case of cloisonné enameled bracelets, pendants and earrings show how homely creatures like cockerels and dragonflies could be given startling beauty by the use of unexpected colors.

All this can help give startling momentum in the real world and online.

Extreme training has been a hallmark in China since at least 1993, when female runners coached by Ma Junren gave startling and suspicious performances.

He pointed out that a 1999 United States Geologic Survey of the Wildwood area gave startling evidence of the amount of water lost when land was developed without a recharge system in place.

His first novel, "L'Extension du Domaine de la Lutte" -- curtly renamed "Whatever" in its English translation -- gave startling voice to a new sort of Frenchman, a 21st-century version of the old-style Russian superfluous man, overeducated, overpaid and bored rancid by his nonexistent love life.

Warpaint's third album is aptly titled, given the startling outbreak of focus here.

But given the startling decline in shark populations, many sports anglers are now practicing catch-and-release fishing.

I knew instinctively that this would be the right approach, given the startling appearance of the law.

Given their startling success in picking games, Gumbel asks Battista in the interview if he thinks that Donaghy fixed games.

"Food," says Renee Gerson, a woman given to startling aphorisms, "is either French, Biblical, or filled with chocolate ingredients to make it very sensual".

In a New York made more hallucinatory by its silence, she discovers the actress, and we are given a startling revelation about her identity.