Sentence examples for startling by from inspiring English sources

Microsoft, which tried to be startling by launching a radical new operating system, has seen its brand value fall.

From this point the novel unfolds in commonplace patterns that are made startling by the book's fierce rendering of geopolitical tensions.

The X Factor has seemed startling by comparison – radiantly bright, with the cold, fierce air of the supermarket chiller cabinet about it.

His four-part madrigal La mia doglia s'avvanza is startling by any standards, for the opening four bars move rapidly from G minor to F-sharp major, D minor, and C-sharp major.

By one calculation, roughly 100 new Porsche Carreras could be bought for that money, and the GTO's performance figures are barely startling by modern standards of high-priced sports cars that can reach 200 miles per hour.

This kind of startling moment-by-moment clarity is part of what "Agon" is about.

Alston's own works were distinguished by startling design by artists Howard Hodgkin and John Hoyland, and contemporary scores by Nigel Osborne and others.

Modern critics view it as a device, integral to poetic language, encompassing the tensions of error and truth simultaneously, not necessarily by startling juxtapositions but by subtle and continuous qualifications of the ordinary meaning of words.

The central government, headed by the Indian National Congress party, has also been hobbled by levels of disclosed and alleged political corruption startling even by Indian standards.

It was delivered with startling clarity by the conductor Grant Llewellyn.

Again, it's not a startling revelation, by any means.