Sentence examples for startling act from inspiring English sources

Then the husband performs a simple, startling act that turns joy into chilling embarrassment, and the party is over.

To read her is to observe a young woman flaying herself open in a startling act of devotion.

Foxcatcher is downright disturbing, a slowly accreting study of dysfunction and dependence that erupts in a startling act of violence.

The leaders were rebuffed, a startling act of insubordination for a group that prides itself on strict hierarchy and iron discipline.

Interviewed by the Independent about this startling act of self-abnegation, Rankin sounded the way Fred Astaire did when he suggested that his forthcoming appearance in "On the Beach" would be a heaven-sent opportunity not to dance.

No longer possessed of her usual mask, Charlotte is forced to gaze inward and discovers a void, albeit a void rendered with self-deprecating wit and the occasional startling act (a desperate seduction involves drunkenly spitting liquor into the mouth of a man who's trying to stay sober).

For one thing, the lines between good and evil are muddy and shifting, so that the most wicked characters are capable of startling acts of heroism and sacrifice.

See more startling acts on "Freakshow," Thursdays at 9 30 p.m. ET on AMC.

And that's saying a lot, considering the impressive four-day lineup that included startling acts making their Telluride debuts such as The Head and the Heart and Trampled by Turtles appearing on the same stage as music legends Sam Bush, Emmylou Harris and Bela Fleck.

Although the book's melodramatic conclusion -- which involves a murder, a startling revelation, an act of self-sacrifice and one last act of fiction-making -- might have seemed contrived in the hands of a less skillful writer, Ms. Rogers manages to make it both plausible and touching.

The show lasts for an hour and "nudity, startling noises and acts some people may consider violent" are promised.