Sentence examples for not as startling from inspiring English sources

Mr. Aslan's thesis is not as startling, original or "entirely new" as the book's publicity claims.

While oversize, the domesticated Columbus statue is not as startling as I thought it would be.

On reflection, these figures are not as startling as they seem.

Because you see not as startling a drop, but still a very large drop, for Hispanic males as well.

But not as startling as claims this week that the reality TV star could earn $85m in 2014 from her official mobile game alone.

Even though the product is not as startling as the original iPhone — the likes of which had not been seen before in the electronics industry — analysts still expect the iPhone 5 to be a hot seller this holiday season.

This was clear, extroverted playing, so it wasn't as startling as it might have been when the program shifted to Leslie Uggams's big-boned renditions of four songs that were hits for the great Lena Horne, a Bedford-Stuyvesant native.

It was not quite as startling to military men and women familiar with the Marine Corps's panache for public relations.

It was not quite as startling to military men and women familiar with the Marines' panache for public relations.

His new information on Watergate is supposed to have caught Nixon off-guard, but the show of contrition we see may not be as startling, as "historic", as the film insists.

But it's not quite as startling as the Kurstin-produced "Million Years Ago", for which he close-mics her voice so much it's almost as if she's inside your head, with just his acoustic guitar and her wordless, melismatic vocal flourishes for company.