Sentence examples for jarring surprise from inspiring English sources

This didn't come as the jarring surprise that Lin's exit did.

They are mesmerising, and Matamoros' second piece came as a sudden, jarring surprise.

"Here Comes My Baby" and "The First Cut Is the Deepest" followed, two pop hits from the infancy of his career, both secular love songs, both jarring surprises.

Olives in the salad retained the pits — a tooth-jarring surprise for the unwary.

It jars, it surprises, and at some point, you realize that you're dancing to politics.

Though its synthetic sounds are mostly approachable, rarely jarring a listener into surprise or confusion, it is a dark record, and much of it would be difficult to dance to.

What there's less of is surprise: the jarring beauty or wit or strangeness, mood shifts, bursts of compositional ambition that made the group's records — at least since "Re" in 1994 — some of the most satisfying documents in pop from anywhere in the world.

Although the disclosure by the Pentagon regarding the fate of the remains of those lost on 9/11 at the Pentagon is jarring, we are not surprised.

The final spin of events was a complete surprise to me, jarring and exciting and scary.

This has been a strangely jarring week in Milan, with surprises in unexpected places, and intrigue everywhere.

"The sad part about it is, it didn't in the slightest bit jar or surprise me that Donald Trump would do something this low-rent, given his track record," Kovaleski said.