Sentence examples for startling as it from inspiring English sources

So "Packing for Mars" is as startling as it is funny, even if its strategic aim is to tell you more than you need to know.

Browning the cauliflower adds a dimension to its flavor, though the transformation is not as startling as it is with, say, onions or porterhouse steaks.

It is as startling as it is delightful.

In some ways, the pronouncement was as startling as it was apt.

Nor is Ms. Chicago's iconography as startling as it once was.

The proposal regarding the acts of consenting adults is not so startling as it seems at first sight.

So, it is startling, as jarring as it is in disaster movies, to see that Hurricane Sandy caused large swaths of New York to be underwater, without power, and, largely, not doing much business.

While oversize, the domesticated Columbus statue is not as startling as I thought it would be.

His impending resignation had been rumored as early as March, but the fact of it remains startling — as much as if Shigeru Miyamoto, the originator of Donkey Kong and the Mario brothers, left Nintendo.

The breadth of the art on view was startling as well.

(Cassio's descent into drunkenness is notably startling, as is Othello's seizure, here displaced to a military encampment washroom).