Sentence examples for most striking set from inspiring English sources

The scenes of devastation are the most striking set pieces in the book.

The book's most striking set pieces — Disney's dialogue with an animatronic Abraham Lincoln; the unexpected arrival of a frightening girl in an owl mask — retain their mysterious power onstage but don't connect to their surroundings.

In one of the novel's most striking set-pieces, she attempts to marshal her servant-slaves to mount a Christmas feast of unparalleled bounty and elegance, but falls into argument over the price of candles.

Yet one of the concert's most striking sets was anything but pointillistic.

Alloy's success story is most striking when set against the background of the suffering of many other young Internet companies.

The program also included a handful of satisfying ensemble scores, including a Rhapsody (1989) for clarinet (Moran Katz), viola (Ms. Griffin) and piano (Cheryl Seltzer), which thrives on a careful balance of acerbity and lyricism, and the String Quartet No. 2 (1998), which, in its most striking moments, sets a pizzicato cello theme against lush, melancholy chordal writing.

One of the most striking sequences is set to Elgar's "Sospiri".

Then, in the speech's most striking passage, he set Bill Clinton afloat on the receding tide of memory.

Most striking was the set's closing Jig, a folksy movement that tested the limits of Mr. Znatchenii's velocity.

Maybe the most striking way to set up the issue is via a statistic that emerged from a 2006 Eurobarometer survey by the European Commission.

Most striking was a set of genes identified as a second cdt operon by BLASTx comparison.