Sentence examples for startling experiences from inspiring English sources

He has no plans yet for a new novel, but there is the memoir, perhaps, and a lifetime of startling experiences.

Coming across this bloody, blazing vision of human cruelty – the sea is horrifically full of drowning, chained up slaves – was one of the most startling experiences I've ever had in an art gallery.

It's a startling experience.

Surely the technology could be used to generate a more startling experience.

He had a gift for inspired juxapositions: no one who was there will forget the startling experience that was hearing Barry's rebarbative, violent Chevaux-de-frise alongside Morton Feldman's soft, almost stationary work Coptic Light in 2002.

Though the merchandise at Highland Park Market, a supermarket in town, is sophisticated enough to please urbanites, shoppers are guaranteed the old-fashioned and somewhat startling experience of having store employees carry their groceries to the car; it is store policy.

"It was a pretty startling experience, obviously, but I guess the shorthand on Seattle is that we're shaken but not stirred," said Walt Crowley, a local author and executive director of a Web site on Seattle history, historylink.org.org

This startling experience of ownership for a "hand" can even be elicited when participants are looking at nothing but empty space, provided that certain minimal conditions are satisfied, in particular the synchrony of stroking (Guterstam, Gentile, & Ehrsson, 2013).

Being able to log in at a random location, untethered, is initially a startling experience and one that, even after months of use, makes computer users marvel at the improvement to their life.

It is obviously a startling experience.

Later an MRI revealed the source of the star's startling experience was carpal tunnel.