Sentence examples for startling connection from inspiring English sources

The Bosnian writer Dzevad Karahasan, in an essay called "Literature and War" (published last year in his collection "Sarajevo, Exodus of a City"), makes a startling connection between modern literary aestheticism and the contemporary world's indifference to violence.

That idea may seem fairly tame, but in exploring it Fernández-Armesto makes some startling connections.

With his jump-cut shifts, startling connections and breathtaking disconnections the author stands among our most gifted younger writers.

By placing such disparate poets together in one book, she allowed the reader to make unexpected, even startling, connections, which is what anthologies do at their best.

The connection between the child who grew up to be Marilyn Monroe and the one who played "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" is not obvious, but Ms. Oates's dynamic novel is filled with such startling connections.

Establishing early the interconnection between cricket and race and class divisions opens the way for Beyond a Boundary to fulfil its author's full purpose: to draw out other startling connections – cricket and art, life in ancient Greece, even rewriting English social history with cricket's great WG Grace as a crucial figure.

He worked them into idiosyncratic compositions that use American Indian pottery, African masks and everyday items like spoons and door hinges to establish startling aesthetic connections.

This book shoots out endless fascinating – and sometimes startling – ideas and connections.

As startling as his connections is the light he sheds on each – not only cricket but every subject benefits from shattering boundaries.

The history Sutton assembles is rich, and the connections are startling.

But that reckless freedom of his yields at least as many brilliant connections and startling metaphors as it does howlers.