Sentence examples for startling achievements from inspiring English sources

The Forth Bridge, aeroplanes and Mozart's 40th Symphony are pretty startling achievements.

The early atonal scores — the Second Quartet, "Pierrot Lunaire," "Erwartung," the Five Pieces for Orchestra, the various short pieces for piano — remain his most startling achievements.

I can remember the startling achievements of Dawn Fraser being belittled in print on the grounds that she was a natural athlete.

That would be one of the most startling achievements for an Islamist party in the Arab world since 1992, when the military in Algeria deprived a religious party there of an almost certain electoral victory, igniting a civil war.

There's no questioning the startling achievements of One Direction: indoctrinating fans from Lochaber to Lisbon, shifting albums by the millions, selling out live shows around the world, and racking up YouTube views in the billions.

And despite some of the more startling achievements, improvements in the field are measured largely in increments: voice recognition systems with decreasing failure rates, or computerized cameras that can recognize more faces and objects than before.

Since then, he has reportedly written eight scientific papers – a startling achievement by any standards.

In this match Moeen has scored 190 runs, a startling achievement, and he has been dismissed playing two of the most horrendous shots imaginable.

Its startling achievement is that, unlike many otherwise talented writers at the moment, the writer has faced out some essential thing about his subject and presented it unsanitised.

As debuts go it was a startling achievement, one from which the team, even as winners of last year's American Le Mans Series – of which this race also constitutes the first round – will take huge pleasure.

Noé's most startling achievement in Enter the Void is his vision of Tokyo: he reimagines it as a branching, crystalline network of neon laid out starkly against the night sky.