Sentence examples for not so startling from inspiring English sources

The proposal regarding the acts of consenting adults is not so startling as it seems at first sight.

Perhaps, in retrospect, it was not so startling for a woman director to have made it, and to have provided the shrewd perspective on this maleness.

This outcome, at least, is not so startling — Wu Tang songs are crammed with words, many of them idiosyncratic slang terms, and could sound positively baroque and disorienting to any younger fan used to the empty space and simple cadence of current rap.

In December of 2015 the then governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago made a not so startling announcement.

In fact, you know that startling stat about the percentage of women who got angel funding.... well, it's not so startling when you hear that only 21% of those who sought angel investment were women.

I say the announcement was not so startling, for as a nation, the narrative had been in the public domain for sometime but was highly rejected by the then government and some leading financial players but eventually we were all forced the face the truth, the big "R" was upon us and there was no escaping it.

But it didn't, so "startling mock-up based on hazy accounts of medieval pillow folly" will have to do.

Now the city's all green, the change isn't so startling, but it's still a special place to go for not very adventurous trekking, places for children to play, good views of the city, and Txakoli Artxanda, a good pintxo place.

The New York City Department of Health, testing the subway system for anthrax spores, has made a not-so-startling discovery: subway stations are far from sterile environments.

Beginning, in this case, with the not-so-startling revelation that the N.B.A. is closing out its long relationship with NBC and has already secured contracts worth even more with ABC/ESPN.

This afternoon I received a not-so-startling report from multiple fourth class (freshman) cadets at West Point who are current clients of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).