Sentence examples for startling comments from inspiring English sources

Here are some startling comments about a possible loosening of policy, from Tsering Namgyal, a writer and journalist based in New York, writing in Asia Sentinel earlier this week (Mr. Namgyal was citing the Tibetan language website Khabda.org).org

A1 In his seven months of captivity, Mr. Hussein revealed little about his weapons programs or the insurgency in postwar Iraq, but he occasionally provided startling comments and observations.

But Mr. Hussein would occasionally provide startling comments and observations, they said, as when he spoke about his reasons for invading Kuwait in 1990, and precipitated the first gulf war.

Feng then went on to deliver one of the most startling comments I've heard from a mainstream Chinese artist in years: Say a director writes a screenplay.… He racks his brain, and plumbs his mind to come up with one interesting sentence — one good detail, a believable context, a background we can relate to.… And then the [censors] will say this phrase has to be changed, that phrase cannot be said.

And then he made these bizarre and startling comments to the New York Times.

The reach of Rob Portman's bad week went well beyond his startling comments in Selma.

Well-respected by his peers during his military career, he has made a series of startling comments since retiring.

He has since been active, issuing statements in response to President Donald Trump's policy in Syria and the president's startling comments on North Korea.