Sentence examples for is something startling from inspiring English sources

But there is something startling about the aurora borealis, and not least its unpredictability.

There is something startling about Hoy climbing on to his bike, bending his broad torso and solid, assertive limbs over the thin metal frame.

There is something startling to the way Mitchell writes, particularly in this period – there is a keenness and a candour, a cool, crisp clarity to her lyrics.

But there is something startling, even shocking, about the angle of vision Mr. Frammartino imposes by juxtaposing apparently disparate elements and lingering on what seem at first to be insignificant details.

Domesticated animals are invariably owned animals, and there is something startling to many people about seeing herds of unowned horses, something that makes it hard to think of them as truly "wild".

And there is something startling about the way she is digitally morphed into a younger self, which made you realise that you sort of assumed she could sort of be about that age anyway.

Even today, there's something startling about Caravel: it's still an emphatically modern design statement, not for the namby-pamby.

But then that's another of her strengths: nothing about her says "Look at me", but when you do get around to looking, there's something startling and graceful there.

But even if you don't actually get in the bed, there's something startling about the installation nature of the piece in which the actors sit up in the beds between encounters, staring wide-eyed as if startled awake from a dream.

There's something startling and interesting about that.

I had heard the story before and had my own shocked reaction, but there was something startling about seeing Meg's speechless horror.