Sentence examples for startling joy from inspiring English sources
"Darling is so pirouettey with us/ for whirlwind married month" says the husband in "Darling & Me!"; the transformation of the technical French "pirouette" into an adjective gives a rapturous lift to the line, its freshness reflecting the startling joy the newly-married couple have discovered in each other.
Then the husband performs a simple, startling act that turns joy into chilling embarrassment, and the party is over.
It was an episode of joy and wonder, and of such startling expense, that we talked about it, incredulously, for weeks, for months, for years.
Classics like Adonis's "No Way Back" and Mr. Fingers' "Washing Machine" sound as startling and as exuberant as ever, distilling all the joy of disco into stark drum-machine beats.
The balaclava-clad joy-rider from Hartlepool was but the most startling recent example of the latter trend.
Twenty years on, the idea of millions of people yearning for the humdrum joys of daily life in welfare capitalism no longer seems so startling or moving.
"Love, love, love and joy, joy, joy.
The result was startling.
THE reversal was startling.
The transformation was startling.
