Sentence examples for once startling from inspiring English sources

What was once startling became cute, Jon Pareles writes.

It's an extreme work, at once startling and unique.

Now, his behaviour isn't exceptional, and an act that was once startling seems cosy.

The idea that holiday marketing efforts would get under way in earnest before Thanksgiving was once startling.

By Friday, four days after the spray tan, the once startling bronze glow had faded from Exotic Dancer to a patchy pale symphony of whites and browns.

Despite its title, much of his new book is about earlier living patterns and movements of people, including the emergence of one-industry towns, the rise of the suburb (or "midopolis" in Kotkin-speak) and the depletion of the urban core.The main proposition of "The New Geography" is at once startling and obvious.

The sight of an African-American man in white face dressed as Abraham Lincoln, top hat, beard and all, manages to be at once startling, pathetic and kind of funny.

Their presence was at once startling--they seemed to move of their own accord, sometimes cropping up in our armoire with the other dishware, sometimes tucked into the back of my father's closet--but they were also vaguely reassuring.