Sentence examples for startling elements from inspiring English sources

Among the more genuinely startling elements of "Open" is its scornful depiction of Ms. Shields as shallow, materialistic, dense and not sufficiently interested in Mr. Agassi's career.

One of the most startling elements of the show is the cut-outs Matisse made as preparatory materials from the chapel at Vence in the south of France.

One of the most startling elements in the report is the view by detainees that the Taliban have mostly rejected their old alliance with Al Qaeda and no longer give members of the terrorist network logistical or military support.

The battle scenes are extraordinarily mucky and violent, but here, as in Tavernier's "Let Joy Reign Supreme" (1975), the intricate protocols of aristocratic sexual passion are the most startling elements.

When you read Wesley's other novels, as you must, you will be struck by recurrences of the more startling elements of The Camomile Lawn: the sexual sharing of twins; and murder, of an accidental or casual, opportunistic kind, never detected.

Apparently Hunter didn't have the conflagration-starting diva style of Ma Rainey or Bessie Smith, and though her life was event filled, even its more startling elements are handled by Mr. Caffey's script with brisk dispatch.

The first startling element to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's historic Irish tour – the first by a British monarch since 1912 – is the time.

And it has one startling and artful element: the sinister and frightening performance of the late Heath Ledger as the psychopathic murderer the Joker.

It is, at heart, a strike movie -a kind of West African "Norma Rae" - with startling (but entirely appropriate) elements of musical comedy blended in, all of it conveyed with an eye for the nuances of character and social life that is almost Chekovian.

Mr. Prabowo's "Music for Multiple Violas 2004 B-A-C-H" for solo viola and tape, based on the musical notes spelling Bach's name in German notation, is a discordant, modernist tapestry layering repeated phrases, startling timbres and improvisatory elements.

Even with only a small percentage of the functional elements characterized, some startling insights have emerged in the preliminary report encompassing the pilot phase of the project [ 35].