Sentence examples for startling habit from inspiring English sources

Like all psychology professors, Sedikides's default subject of study was his own mental process and in the first months of arriving on the English south coast he was struck by a new, startling habit of mind.

Gonzaga has made a habit of startling upsets in reaching the Round of 16 the past three years, but this time the Bulldogs (29-4) experienced what they had done to so many others.

Hikikomori kids, starting in the late 90s, picked up the murder habit with startling aplomb.

If you ask some of his Chinese friends, Lemmon's unorthodox habits are just as startling.

Her habit of denial is broadcast in her startling first long speech: "I think not on my father," she says.

The startling sequence of a lust-crazed nun changing the habit of a lifetime for a provocative dress and garish lipstick, before attempting murder, remains one of the most erotically charged episodes in all cinema.

Crane was 6 when they moved to the city, and perhaps the startling transition at a young age triggered a lifelong habit of collecting things.

Seeking an explanation for these rather startling observations, the Glasgow workers inquired into the Pakistanis' dietary habits.

This comes partly from the habit, hard to break, of extolling the transgressive, the visionary, the startling undercurrent of dread.

He magnifies a certain poet's weakness or habit of mind, during which time he creates a number of startling and nasty metaphors and similes that will make even his victims smile.

These are the methods and habits of Mount's "New Few" and they have produced the startling differentials within the same workplace that can have a chief executive being paid 900 times more than his average employee.