Sentence examples for startling appearance from inspiring English sources

With that brief, startling appearance a career was born.

I knew instinctively that this would be the right approach, given the startling appearance of the law.

A huge stag makes a startling appearance, like an animistic deity, but he too is being stalked.

"Yet her performance was, in its own way, effective because of her startling appearance and her air of not caring a curse what people thought of her".

Abraham Lincoln's elegant top hat and the white kid gloves, stiff with age, he had in his pocket when he was shot, make a startling appearance.

In his startling appearance just hours later, Mr. Fujimori said he hoped that the new election would satisfy the international community.

The sculptor – all that has been revealed about her is that she is female, and that she loves books – made her first startling appearances last year, leaving intricate paper models of a tiny Ian Rankin in a cinema, a model of a gramophone and a coffin and a detailed paper tree around Edinburgh.

Bright, cold, chemical weaponry and the startling, entrancing appearance of a pneumatic railway make the book particularly memorable, as does the blade-keen and formidable Prime Minister Windlass, the living embodiment of realpolitik.

The critic Montgomery Schuyler coined the phrase "reign of terror" style to describe them because of their startling and alarming appearance.

Quite startling is the appearance in the novel's first few pages of Lord Alfred Douglas - a year before Wilde actually met him.

Personally, after spending a few years away from San Francisco, the transformation is startling--in appearance and in culture.