Sentence examples for seemed startling from inspiring English sources

It looks like an enormous light drawing and must have seemed startling for its time.

Back when Day was creating his parkas and wheel covers, though, his unauthorized methods seemed startling.

The phrase, taken from "Melanctha," a 1909 novella by Gertrude Stein, seemed startling when viewed out of context.

That category seemed startling when I saw it in a bureau study on intangibles and the economy.

But the main character's overt gayness seemed startling four years ago.

Injected suddenly into that heated conflict, word of Mr. Garlasco's interest seemed startling to many.

They have been doing so in such quiet that the previous sentence may seem startling.

Their story is so rarely explained without disinformation that it still seems startling when it is stated plainly.

Police officials say the recent rise in retirements seems startling only because it follows several years in which retirements fell.

Though the idea of a building in movement seems startling, this would not have been the first kinetic work by Mr. Calatrava.

It might seem startling -- or damning -- that people who are drinking a lot of a particular soda actually like the idea of its flavor being discontinued.