Sentence examples for help but strike from inspiring English sources

This is a poignant and time-honored theme -- remember Salieri in "Amadeus" -- and in its contemporary idiom here it can't help but strike home.

But as he paid tribute to his predecessor amid whoops and cheers, Mr. Wright could not help but strike a wistful note.

The murder trial of a silent defendant, especially one who has spent a lifetime lying to everyone about almost everything, can't help but strike a child as what it is: a hugely laborious exercise in trying to read a mind.

"Race is the most incendiary topic in our history," decides Spader's character in a pronouncement that can't help but strike sparks with his legal partner and young assistant, both of whom are black.

This convivial bar is so tiny I couldn't help but strike up conversations with fellow drinkers, one of whom had brought in some cider from his holidays that the landlord seemed happy for him to pass around.

If they lose or break something you've just bought them (which they will, because it will be a Peppa Pig helium balloon), their despair is total, and can't help but strike you as disproportionate, considering that, five minutes ago, they were living quite happily without it.

On a recent visit to Poland and Ukraine, I couldn't help but be struck by it.

Anyone who heard his 2005 Beethoven cycle couldn't help but be struck by the way he made music we think we know backwards sound new.

Roam around Hong Kong and you can't help but be struck by the sense of self-confidence, mixed with a long-established grounding in personal wealth.

In one corner of the courtyard, a party member named Kaiser Bengali said he could not help but be struck by the slogan.

Still, you can't help but be struck, listening back to Test Match Special snippets from that Ashes summer, by the sound from the crowd.