Sentence examples for hardly startling from inspiring English sources
The results of the surveys are hardly startling.
An anchovy and olive sauce for dipping was better, but hardly startling.
Among these were the Marvel Stones, a small, flat expanse of limestone paving – a rarity in Derbyshire, but hardly startling.
This argument is fine, though hardly startling, and one does have to negotiate an awful lot of invented obstacles to get there.
The Italian, like Knox, has focused on the PGA Tour, and played for Europe in 2010 and 2012, although his own figures are hardly startling.
While this is hardly startling, the book is made wonderful by its breadth of reference, the sagacity of Warner's comments, and the justness of the connections she makes.
Thus, we know only that Nichols and Henry had conversations, hardly a startling development, given their location in the same cellblock in a city jail.
And it paves the way for saying that positive psychology has become a moneymaking enterprise, which is hardly a startling observation in the midst of this book's parade of saccharine hucksters.
Obviously, some caveats, before we start: the blindness reported in this journal is temporary, i.e. up to but not exceeding 15 minutes; it was only reported by two women, aged 22 and 40, so hardly a startling sample size; they were both looking at their phones in a darkened room; they were both looking at their phones through one eye.
When she notes that one torturer's methods were "so brutal and pathological that I will not describe" them, you can hardly imagine how startling those things might be, because she's held little back.
