Sentence examples for jarring sense from inspiring English sources

In the event the only really frightening thing about the first half of their chase was the jarring sense of over-familiarity as the top order crumpled.

With England, it is more than that: the stage-managed press conferences, the extraordinary coddling of the players, the jarring sense it is better fun elsewhere and that the players are spoilt in the extreme.

There is no jarring sense of old and new, for example, in the way the Grand Salon on the first floor has been transformed into an events room overlooking the Thames; and in the building's undercroft, the creation of a new education reception space and archive galleries (in the foundations of the 19th century Millbank Penitentiary) has completely renergised this segment of the building.

Played with a jarring sense of self-assurance by Rob Morrow, Jimmy Brogan is all let's-rock-'n'-roll with his staff, someone who, in middle age, still keeps a basketball net in his office and shaves like a 24-year-old.

The only downside, really, is the occasionally jarring sense that something is missing from my enjoyment of an experience.

"Because I'm your friend". The second time he came into the room he winced when the door clicked shut, as if the sharp sound was an intrusion, jarring the senses unnecessarily.

When the alarm jars his senses at 6 a.m., he hustles out the door, knowing there are five other runners waiting on him.

Going from Grimes' manic singalongs to a hushed, seated Grouper performance was slightly jarring to the senses, but prolific Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris' music was the perfect fit for the cavernous, acoustically rich venue.

And yet, perhaps paradoxically, that sense of antiquity gives the film its almost jarring freshness, its uncanny sense of discovery.

Mr. Kulick's appendages from Heywood are in a sense less jarring than similar additions would be to most other Shakespeare's works.

Like the Liberty Bell and like much of Mr. Daugherty's other work, the piece is a little cracked -- here in a Mahlerian sense, with jarring juxtapositions (canon and clangor, Bach and Copland).