Sentence examples for look startling from inspiring English sources

Its attempt at complexity and ambiguity is engaging, even admirable, although this is partly still the contrived "prequel" effect of creating storylines which have to look startling and unexpected, even though we all know where they're heading.

But while the sentences may look startling and in some cases even draconian, they are following the letter of an anti-terror law that was passed by the National Assembly as recently as last November.

But with "Community" the drop-off looks startling.

Even last weekend, which ended a four-day engagement with different casts, Ms. Sonnabend's play with oval shapes and Art Nouveau designs looked startling.

It's not merely a gimmick, although it looks startling on the page and I wonder that her publishers didn't protest.

At the time pictures of athletic girls strolling the beach in sexy bathing suits or carrying striped umbrellas looked startling; respectable magazines didn't show women with their knees apart.

At 48, he finds that term "a bit superficial", but he looks startling: he has turned up to our interview as if he is about to take to the stage – at first I think his shirt is unbuttoned nearly to the navel.

Sensation art, or Apocalypse or Intelligence or Turner Prize art is based on a formula where something looks startling at first and then turns out to be expressing some kind of banal idea, which somebody will be sure to tell you about.

With half his face blown away he looks startling, surreal even, but he's the only one in the show with a strong moral code and, towards the jaw-dropping finale, he gives the showboating Rosetti some real competition in the scene-stealing stakes.

If New York hadn't lost confidence in its creative energies, the Rose Center would look less startling.

She laughed that soft, deep chuckle again and looked up, startling Loomis anew with the directness of her gaze.