Sentence examples for it startling from inspiring English sources

Little wonder that the series has plenty of religious iconography, much of it startling in its juxtaposing of the old with the new.

He stripped a narrow tree limb of its twigs, and then poked with it, startling the snake he knew was there, a black-lipped mamba.

He patented a shade of blue – International Klein Blue, in fact just ordinary ultramarine pigment bound in polymer to preserve its chromatic intensity – and painted all-blue canvases with it, startling his audiences.

I found it startling this time.

But in the heat of a presidential campaign, many women found it startling and offensive.

There is violence — some of it startling, all of it significant — but that's not what the movie is about.

The company demonstrated the set next to a 1080 and the difference was apparent, but not gotta-have-it startling, mostly I suspect because the TV was 55 inches.

It's startling, but it also has an unexpected payoff.

It was startling, but it was much more startling to have something concealed from me for so long.

It is startling because it's presented as an afterthought.

They knew it was coming, but it's startling anyway.