Sentence examples for startling characteristics from inspiring English sources

Mr Agius, a former investment banker and chairman of Lazards in London, says Barclays Capital has had "an interesting summer" but adds: "One of the most startling characteristics of the credit crunch was the difference between what was happening on the ground and the perception from outside".

Painstakingly created in the age-old way – with a drawn cartoon transferred to the wall, then painted with adhesive and covered with gold leaf – its most startling characteristic is its in-built transience.

One startling characteristic of the transcriptional response to TCDD across the four rat strains/lines are the dramatic inter-strain differences.

It answers these questions particularly convincingly because of its most startling characteristic - the mitochondrial genome of the tulip tree (and those of its relatives, the magnolias) contain the most slowly evolving genes ever studied.

Indeed, her work is the best support I know for an assertion made by Zora Neale Hurston, in her still startling 1934 essay "Characteristics of Negro Expression": The Negro's universal mimicry is not so much a thing in itself as an evidence of something that permeates his entire self.

But it gave his pictures their characteristic stark and startling effect.

This leads to a startling possibility, because red dwarfs have a characteristic that distinguishes them from stars like the sun: longevity.

Their other distinguishing characteristic is that they are written with startling talent.

"Das Paradies und die Peri" has few of the startling beauties we associate with top-shelf Schumann, but his characteristics are unmistakable, and they are reproduced with a high quality.

The defining characteristic of this school was a poetry rife with startling images, unexpected but audaciously apt similes, and rapid, imaginative tricks of transformation that set the reader looking at the world afresh.

The idea that being a banker is an alluring characteristic for a member of the Trump Administration is a startling change.