Sentence examples for jarring impression from inspiring English sources

After visiting Detroit for the first time in 17 years, my first jarring impression of the city was the silence.

Despite that jarring first impression, Mr. Pearson said there was not a pattern of racism in the town where he would raise his children.

"I thought, is this what California is like?" Despite that jarring first impression, she found Mr. Copeland "sweet, handsome and funny".

Some were so jarring they gave the impression of staring at static on a television.

Having spent time in some of the slums of Mumbai and Delhi earlier this year, I found it was easy to focus on the jarring first impressions: the overcrowding, filth and poverty.

It was jarring and disturbing and made a deeper impression about the vicissitudes of immigration than any news story could ever provide.

It makes for a jarring user experience and a bad first impression.

The rapidly occurring social and political changes and the jarring contradictions in daily life left a strong impression and lots of questions.

He interrupts scenes, jumps to other scenes that present an impression of disjunction, disorientation, in short are jarring.

Bits of dissonance, piercing overtones and gently jarring electronic sounds spike the undulant harmonies, but so subtly that the overall aural impression is of beguiling consonance.

You can sense some of that rebelliousness in her jarring palette — tomato red next to lime green is a favorite combination — but the overall impression is dogmatic.