Sentence examples for is somewhat startling from inspiring English sources

"The man is somewhat startling," McCarver said.

The 3-D is somewhat startling at first, which Ms. Stewart said was intentional.

The public outcry over the faked credentials is somewhat startling, given that political leaders here have dodged accountability for rampant corruption and other serious violations of the law.

All this activity is somewhat startling for most longtime fans, since Watterson became the JD Salinger of cartooning after he ended Calvin and Hobbes in 1995.

Given those associations, and her splashy pedigree, it is somewhat startling to find that with this — her first starring role in a film, directed by her friend and fellow Saint Ann's alumna, Ry Russo-Young — Ms. Schnabel seems to have embarked on a serious career.

Despite his apparent untarnished enthusiasm, it is somewhat startling to learn Sir Clive doesn't use email, the web or even own a computer.

So it was somewhat startling to hear him decry the war on the eve of Baghdad's fall.

It's somewhat startling, in the midst of this idyll, to realize that this is actually public transportation.

"The high school completion numbers are somewhat startling, since they fly in the face of the very negative impression people have gotten about dropouts," Mr. Fry said.

Such bowdlerization isn't uncommon, then as now, though it's somewhat startling that it was Lang (who was raised a Catholic by a Jewish mother) rather than the studio executives, who made the cuts.

(It's somewhat startling to learn that the Titanic was afloat for eleven months, being fitted out and undergoing tests for seaworthiness, before it embarked on its maiden trip).