Sentence examples for startling context from inspiring English sources

Jonson turns up again in a more startling context when Henslowe writes to Alleyn about the death of Gabriel Spenser, an actor in their company, killed in a duel in Hoggesdon (Hoxton) Fields by Jonson.

Satire draws attention to defects or stupidities by exaggerating them, transposing them into startling contexts or turning them upside down.

This sign, so startling amid the context of polite ballroom behavior, changes their relationship in our eyes forever.

Spike Jonze has a talent for the gently bizarre image, the startling shift in context which makes a weird kind of sense.

In a style reminiscent of German New Realists like George Grosz and Otto Dix, the picture conveys a sense of erotic corporeality with a frankness that is startling in the context of this mostly decorous show.

Mr. Haas alludes to this tradition by quoting briefly from a Tenebrae setting by the Italian Renaissance composer Gesualdo — a startling moment in the context of this work's experimental language.

Some of Mr. Fraenkel's selections are startling in their new context.

Jocko would be a startling figure in any context; that he pops up in a Hollywood film from 1957, played by Ben Gazzara in his movie debut, seems almost unaccountable.

The action is mundane — just a matter of somebody's stepping off a bus — but it takes on a strange, startling significance in the context of this elegant meditation on a pocket of the city you might never think of exploring with guidebook in hand.

And in a jolting cutaway, we glimpse the martinet Kerry in the shower, her glowing face blasted by water, singing "Rescue Me" -- a hint of her growing crush on a coworker, and in this grim context, a startling glimmer of hope.

Whether it's a comment on the absurdity of genocide (of which MIA saw plenty during her early childhood in Sri Lanka) or a challenge to the idea of "other" in Arizona's immigration law, it is startling even in the context of recent genre-bending music art-films.