Sentence examples for startling for from inspiring English sources

It was blunted wit, but startling for a commercial carrier.

"It was all so startling for my father.

The numbers are particularly startling for the United States.

It looks like an enormous light drawing and must have seemed startling for its time.

Even more startling for the once insular G.E., outsiders are welcome.

It's startling, for anyone who has seen Submarine, how quickly Roberts has grown up.

Far more startling for Egypt's Christians and secularists has been the success of the ultra-conservative Al-Nour Party. Al-Nour Party

Their enthusiasm was startling, for Mr. Cuomo's predecessors have found few adversaries as imposing as hospitals during Albany's budget season.

TWO momentous events occurred last week, and what was most startling for the financial markets was that they were so utterly predictable.

The tales are startling for their grotesque humor, for the light they shed on the draggled hinterland between the civilized and the monstrous.

First, the price tags are startling: for-profit educators normally expect to pay between 10 and 13 times earnings for a school.