Sentence examples for increasingly startling from inspiring English sources

In its brutality and apparent randomness, the killing of Ms. Watkins was the kind of homicide that had become increasingly startling with the declines in reported crime in New York City.

He was perky, engaging, sociable, tireless, and his ambitions grew as he progressed through classical landscapes, scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses and suchlike, on to the lofty plateaux of history painting, winning attention at the Royal Academy and its rival body the British Institution with increasingly startling compositions.

Among them, some not-very-startling developments: increasingly capable telecommunications and accessible travel has made it possible for venture capitalists to live in financial centers but to oversee investments in distant areas.

While CD sales remain the bread and butter of the music industry, getting the product in front of consumers is becoming increasingly difficult due to the startling degree of consolidation that's been seen in recent years.

Boehner's startling announcement indicates the increasingly shaky confidence in his leadership both in and outside the Capitol building.

"Then it became humorously, and as he's been doing this through the years they've been increasingly respectful, because he's doing these startling things, and he's no longer twenty-two years old.

The lion has traditionally been less a source of alarm to wildlife-conservation groups, but in the last few years, in light of the startling drop in numbers, it is increasingly regarded as a threatened species.

He was still young, and still brilliant; his gargantuan novel, Infinite Jest, and his remarkable short stories, displayed a startling originality in an age of increasingly predictable literary gestures.

Bizarre true-life stories, in documentary or feature form, have long been a staple of the Sundance film festival – increasingly so since the breakout debut of Andrew Jarecki's startling Capturing the Friedmans in 2003.

She is a novice in the ways of the world and her increasingly reckless behavior can be tiresome, but Thomson engineers a startling climax.

The rise in popularity of these apps recently brought me to a startling observation: Advances in technology, especially in AI, are increasingly making traditional UI irrelevant.