Sentence examples for jarring combination from inspiring English sources

The potentially jarring combination of comedy, romance, history and theology shouldn't work, but miraculously does.

Under the politicized klieg lights of a presidential transition, it seemed a jarring combination of attitudes.

They feel like overcooked pornography, undercooked lyric poetry or -- worst of all -- some odd, jarring combination of the two.

Some have found him glib, his sense of action larger than life, his frame too busy, his temperament a jarring combination of violence and suburban sunniness.

For the course of the performance, at least, those women overcome their passivity and their willfulness — a jarring combination — in order to tell us what life can feel like on that cliff of color and gender.

It consists of a Classical obelisk atop which balances a life-size statue of a very pregnant Greek-goddess figure, and the base of which is imprinted with a jarring combination of epithets and historic catchphrases (Whore, Kitsch, La Résistance).

Many orchids are strange-looking, and others have bizarre shapes and jarring color combinations, and all orchids are rather ugly when they aren't in flower.

But at the same time, we have countless adverts that are flamboyant, sickly sweet, and just hyperbolic all around, often with jarring color combinations and tragic abuse of effect filters.

As the story goes, in its most romanticized version, Ms. Pulitzer's fashion empire, famous for its tropical print shift dresses and lighthearted embrace of jarring color combinations like flamingo pink and apple green, was born out of necessity.

The combination is jarring here: in one scene, Bomboy tells of having taken part in a massacre of Tutsi women and children in Rwanda; in another, he's scheming to sell call-to-prayer alarm clocks to Muslim countrymen back home.

In 2007 Mr. Mason opened his own downtown restaurant, Tailor, where jarring flavor and texture combinations — pork belly with miso butterscotch, mustard ice cream with rum-braised banana — were the rule.