Sentence examples for jarring discovery from inspiring English sources
SEATTLE — Maria Semple made an instant, jarring discovery when she moved with her boyfriend and daughter from Los Angeles to Seattle, a city whose Patagonia-clad inhabitants like to talk about bicycling, the environment and the eternally dull question (in her opinion) of whether it might rain.
A few years ago, a group of researchers working in the Cape Verde islands, off West Africa, made a particularly jarring discovery — elephant-sized chunks of basalt and limestone that had formed at sea level and somehow ended up more than six hundred feet above, on a volcanic plateau on Santiago Island.
It's like that other old adage about how if you put a frog into boiling water it'll thrash around in panic, but if you put it into a pot of water and gently heat it, eventually the frog will make the jarring discovery that it has spent 12 months writing about Tony Abbott.
And the vogue for investigation into the country's Jewish past has brought some jarring discoveries, such as the revelation in 2000 that the 1,600 Jews of the town of Jedwabne were burned alive by their Polish neighbours.
And yet, perhaps paradoxically, that sense of antiquity gives the film its almost jarring freshness, its uncanny sense of discovery.
At the same time, it can be jarring to consider what might have been, had societal discomfort stifled the discovery of the double helix or the development of such transformative technologies as computers or cell phones.
"There was some reality of what they are, their internal discoveries". These revelations weren't always pleasant; some were jarring.
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The disharmony is jarring.
