Sentence examples for startling display from inspiring English sources

In the face of this startling display of national idiocy, Dorrinson still mustered some of the resilience for which the British people are known.

Mr. Serkin's balance and control of contrasting elements were impressive, and in some ways they prefigured the task at hand in the Beethoven, a startling display of what a master composer could do with even the most commonplace theme.

The band's 13th studio album, Do Not Disturb, released in September, is a fervently experimental affair, full of jaw-dropping moments of angular fury and exquisite quiet, not to mention another typically startling display of Hammill's extraordinary multi-octave range.

A startling display at Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, in New York, is a huge four-panel mural by Winold Reiss (1886-1953), from a series commissioned for Union Terminal in Cincinnati in 1933.

Emboldened by this, the Italian and German governments have since joined David Cameron in calling for refugees to be sent back to Libya, a war zone where – in a startling display of cognitive dissonance – some of the same governments are also mulling a military intervention.

The show I saw began with a startling display of avant-garde belly-dancing, courtesy of Anokha Coxe, before moving on to an immensely silly piece of description-defying crockery-smashing dance poetry centred around Cinderella's incarceration on a space station.

The end of 2008 and the start of 2009 saw some startling displays of violence.

Some of the most startling displays aren't much to look at: for example, the tiny bit of white polymer shaped like the cartilage of the human nose.

Mourinho called his players the "masters of complicated football" but that was being generous after one of the more startling displays of his two years in charge.

George MacKay, who was directed by Warchus in Pride, and who stood out in Ah, Wilderness!, gives one of the most startling displays of rage that I have ever seen on stage.

Thomas Alva Edison takes part only in spirit, through the presence of the electric current in a peculiar machine being used to stimulate some of the participants in these startling displays.