Sentence examples for startling choice from inspiring English sources

As an Academy Award nominee for best picture, "Babel" was a startling choice.

Among Morsi's opponents, the most popular and startling choice of successor – at least in the interim – may be the head of the armed forces, General Abdel Fattah Sisi.

The second novel in a trilogy that began with "Links" features, like its predecessor, a Somali emigrant who returns… As an Academy Award nominee for best picture, "Babel" was a startling choice.

So the more startling choice would have been the endorsement of Senator McCain.João Luis Hamburger São PauloSIR – I cannot tell you how offended I was by your line that Mr Obama's election would "lessen the tendency of American blacks to blame all their problems on racism".

A version by the Montreal-based group Ensemble Caprice, on the Analekta label, stands out not only for its fleet, characterful approach but also for its startling choice to intermingle Bach's masterpieces with Baroque-style arrangements of seven preludes and fugues by Dmitri Shostakovich.

But, although the opening episode starts with a startling choice of shot – a sustained tight close-up of the face of James Nesbitt as the police commissioner – we become progressively less aware of what the camera is doing than when we were playing spot-the-Boyle.

"Disenthrall" was a startling word choice for Lincoln, who normally prided himself on the use of short words that conveyed a clear meaning.

It can bring tears into your eyes (not mine of course, I'm talking about a friend...)" Isabelle Meyer "A great and fluid command of the language, an achingly accurate portrayal of the complexity of human choices, startling humour in places you least expect, tender treatment of the tragedy that is the human condition..

Torn, Wayne pursues a new identity as a young adult, and the choice has startling consequences.

Wilson's choice feels startling and modern: one of the world's oldest stories transposed to the vernacular of Facebook.

"Annulled" is a startling and completely apt choice here: the slight remoteness of the Latinate word helps to avoid the moral insistence that can disarm poetry about war.