Sentence examples for slightly startling from inspiring English sources

Just how popular is sometimes slightly startling.

"It was the right word and the slightly startling nature of it was really what you needed," Mr. Sorkin said.

And in a slightly startling admission for a man of abundant self-certainty, he acknowledged that there remained essential areas where he had yet to develop convictions.

Its subject and design, slightly startling in a country that stopped celebrating most factory workers decades ago, is explained by a small plaque.

With attention now focused on the ultimate identity of the developer pushing through this Lewisham council scheme, the Guardian can reveal a slightly startling coincidence.

At the gallery entrance, a noisy industrial machine by Robert Chambers shoots air in your face to slightly startling but hardly dangerous effect.

On the other hand, should you set your table with a new MexICON Platter from the design studio DFC Mexico City, you might discover a slightly more startling sight -- the face of the telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, say, or the eyepatch-wearing '70s soap star Catalina Creel, who resembles "an old woman turning into a fly," according to the DFC co-founder Tony Moxham.

"It's not something we see on screen with women as often, so the images are slightly more startling," Swanberg said.

In "Happy Christmas," the "slightly more startling" image comes in the form of Jenny passing out after several glasses of whisky, leaving the oven on and nearly burning down her brother's house.

While it's unsurprising that most people in Britain can't remember where the Falklands are, it's slightly more startling that no Argentinians actually gives a shit about that war either.

The statue, of a sleepwalking man in his underwear, is indeed startling and slightly creepy.