Sentence examples for sound startling from inspiring English sources

Landing Ground's originality and integrity still sound startling a year after its release.

Even if you haven't slept through the last few weeks, the words still sound startling and strange, despite the blanketing coverage.

That may not sound startling: scientists describe about 50 new species every day.

That may sound startling, but consider how PS2 games were often expected to cost about 20% more to develop than PS1.

Coming after such musical adventures, the familiar "Appassionata" sounded startling and wild.

If this sounds startling, it's because we're not used to officials talking without regard to ridicule and lawsuits.

On the CD those heraldic blasts are a friendly introduction, but on Monday night they sounded startling, like a one-man alarm clock, gleefully blasting away.

If all of this fuss sounds startling, you probably don't have a daughter who dances in front of the mirror singing "Nobody's Perfect," "The Other Side of Me" or other glossy, Disney-safe hits of "Hannah Montana," one of the biggest brand names with grade-school America.

So how have Mr. Haitink and the London players managed to make these symphonies sound so startling?

Mr. Marsalis professed to have no interest in marketing, "as long as it's not disrespectful to Stravinsky". He turned the conversation back toward "L'Histoire". Why does it still sound so startling, as if it had been composed yesterday.

Playing two preludes and fugues from Book 1 of Bach's "Well-Tempered Klavier," Mr. Kamitsuka made Bach's sudden harmonic transitions in the E-minor piece sound as startling as they actually are.