Sentence examples for sort of startling from inspiring English sources

(Spanier's interactions with the board have a sort of startling diffidence to them).

The dance sessions have the sort of startling energy and edgy aesthetic that turn heads in the best pop promos.

Both have fixed lenses and only one shutter speed, but they can produce all sorts of startling effects.

All sorts of startling things go through the heads of the poets, paleontologists, physicists, cartoonists and others who win the MacArthur, the academic and artistic equivalent of a mini-Nobel Prize and the jackpot rolled in one.

I sort of agree.

It is a love story, sort of, opening with a startling scene of a young Mr. DeFede slapping her face.

And by shifting people from farms to cities he is helping urbanisation of the sort that underpinned startling progress elsewhere in Asia.Yet Frontline is also a symptom of a colossal failure.

These are long term plays — and when you really start to figure that out if you haven't done that sort of work before it's a little startling".

It's a startling look at the sort of everyday military indoctrination that may be happening, possibly in your very neighborhood, and almost as quietly as government agents slip in and out of their favorite digital fantasy worlds.

That's competitive, though short of startling.

Donald loves violent melodrama and startling character turns, exactly the sort of reverberant clichés that Charlie wants to avoid.