Sentence examples for startling imagery from inspiring English sources

James's poems are characterised by startling imagery and might, I think, have captured the eye in 1909.

"A direct statement on integration" was how Bowie summed up the video's startling imagery to the ABC.

Possessed of a different, darker comedy is AL Kennedy's Paradise (Cape), a candid depiction of alcoholism made vivid by Kennedy's often startling imagery.

Yet both are worth seeing because of Ray's haunting and, by then, maybe tormenting ability to bring freshness and startling imagery to the most trite scene.

Heady stuff, but the movie merely toys with questions of identity and identification with the oppressor, substituting startling imagery for psychological analysis and character revelation.

It was really all he needed, beyond the hulking gravity of his singing, in a bone-dry baritone, and the intrigue of his lyrics, with their startling imagery and deadpan philosophy.

He began designing cover art for his Pink Floyd friends, and in the late 1960s he cofounded the design studio Hipgnosis, where he could devise ever-more-creative and more-startling imagery.

Minimal punctuation, neologisms, and startling associative imagery were used in the poetry of Lucebert (pseudonym of Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk).

Opinions of Mr. Lock's work tend to fall into the love-it or hate-it camps, but there's no question about his talent for startling visual imagery and the all-out dancing of his company.

The piece is a classic from the golden age of New York postmodern dance – a collage of pure movement, stark physical tasks (including the very meticulous balancing together of four wooden planks) and startling visual imagery – and it's one that Paxton compares to the "disjointed story" that might emerge from "a chance meeting with a slightly drunken man in a quiet bar".

A childhood cult survivor, Haze peppers her lyrics with startling religious imagery – "I'm Satan, and Imma take your ass to church now," she drawls with relish; later, she muses that "this world isn't real, just a set I designed".