Sentence examples for startling description from inspiring English sources

The article also featured this startling description of how much input into decision-making the president and his wife gave their three young children: Asma al-Assad empties a box of fondue mix into a saucepan for lunch.

It took a month to get her out.Politkovskaya would have noticed the growing numbers of Kremlin critics in exile: Yelena Tregubova, a journalist who unwisely wrote a gossipy insider's account of life at the top, including a startling description of a dinner á deux with Mr Putin.

The federal government's brief offered a startling description of what the government was doing on the Arizona-Mexico border in the spring of 2010, when the Arizona Legislature passed S.B. 1070: 4,000 Border Patrol agents stationed there, a 40 percent increase since 2005; 40 aircraft on patrol; 305.7 miles of border fence completed.

The accounts, which range from startling descriptions of cruelty to almost nostalgic views of plantation life, are said to have been collected with a sense of urgency during the project's two-year run, before the surviving former slaves passed away.

One of the most startling and imaginative descriptions of this state is Hugo von Hofmannsthal's story, "The Letter of Lord Chandos", written in 1902.

Describing food is difficult, not because we can't capture in words things that are sensual — we do fine with painting and pubic hair — but because memorable description depends on startling metaphors, and startling metaphors depend on a willingness to be startled.

Describing food is difficult, not because we can't capture in words things that are sensual we do fine with painting and pubic hair but because memorable description depends on startling metaphors, and startling metaphors depend on a willingness to be startled.

As we finished rounding out the characters, we came up with one named Whitney, who, in the words of her character description, is a "startling bulldog".

A startling line in the project description reveals its function as a visualizer of deathly data, reading, "A source of radioactivity strong enough to cause the installation to remain solidly lit would be fatal to any living organism in the room, as in the case of a nuclear catastrophe".

But read the lecture and the only hint of papal disavowal is a description of Manuel's "startling brusqueness".

Then a startling dystopian vision emerges with the description of how the ruling class, dubbed 'the guardians' are to live.