Sentence examples for startling accomplishments from inspiring English sources
I didn't love it there, yet the tiny desert state's inherent East-meets-West contradictions and startling accomplishments continue to provoke and amaze me.
Cabrera followed up that startling accomplishment with another strong season at the plate despite struggling to stay healthy.
Their defeat in the end cannot overshadow a season of startling accomplishment for a plucky team that repeatedly showed aplomb and an irrepressible resolve.
They were both American Indians, one living in the afterglow of a startling accomplishment, the other having reached what he thought was the sunset of an unfulfilled career.
That was the startling accomplishment of Mark Haddon's best-selling 2003 novel, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," whose 15-year-old narrator displays many signs of autism without ever mentioning the word: he is extremely intelligent and facile with numbers, yet so emotionally blank he needs to have love defined for him, so literal-minded he must have jokes explained.
Thorpe's accomplishments tonight were startling.
Among the many accomplishments of "Monsoon Wedding," the most startling is that it conveys onscreen something that is palpable in Nair herself, what the Punjabis call masti — an intoxication with life.
More startling, the dropout rate at FAS partner schools is now zero, an exemplary accomplishment considering that the overall dropout rate in Pakistan schools is 40% by Grade 4 and 77% by Grade 10 (Malik 2010: 27).
Fandila's accomplishments in the bullring are intensely athletic (he's the Gene Kelly of his sport) — it's startling to see his shyness all but disappear as he becomes an intense showman in combat.
But what is startling is how little credit New Yorkers give Mr. Bloomberg for what even his strongest critics concede is an impressive docket of accomplishments during his first year in office.
