Sentence examples for startling display of 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.

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.

When I said, ‘Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party,’ the program revealed its impressive vocabulary with a startling display of political incorrectness: ‘Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of apartheid.’).’

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

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.

Multiple pregnancies, along with cosmetic surgery, are arguably among the most visible — and startling — displays of scientific daring, be it artificially enhanced mothers like the 70-year-old Indian woman who in 2008 had twins after in vitro fertilization, or the drastic surgical makeover that turned Heidi Montag of "The Hills" into a horror movie of her own making — "The Hills Have Eyelifts".

There are many reasons: the failures in Iraq; the abyss between U.S. principle and practice (Abu Ghraib); the rise of other nations (China); startling displays of American incoherence (Iran); economic vulnerability (the dollar as declining store of value); and general resentments stirred by any near hegemonic power.