Sentence examples for is almost startling from inspiring English sources

His voice, almost a whisper, is almost startling given the excitement Hester generates.

SYDNEY — With John Kelly's rural Australian drawl, it is almost startling to hear him use Chinese cooking terms.

The sincerity of the book is almost startling, now that self-conscious irony has become a cultural staple.

On "4:44," it is almost startling how plainly he takes the blame for having spoiled something good.

So huge a presence is he that it is almost startling to find him arriving for a rehearsal of Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) at the Royal Opera House on as modest a contraption as a bicycle.

Indeed, the angry crying of "copy" has become so ubiquitous that it is almost startling when a brand chooses to use a different approach in the court of public opinion.

The speed with which our meal was served was almost startling.

His cartoons, like his caricatures, have a wit and spontaneity that are almost startling.

But at its heart is a question so fundamental as to be almost startling: Who owns the law?

The foundation of Ms. Benanti's talent is a limber soprano whose power and innate expressiveness she unleashed with a casual authority that was almost startling.

The difference between these performances and the account of Brahms's Serenade No. 1, which followed the intermission, was almost startling.