Sentence examples for startling myself from inspiring English sources

"It's going to be a hit," I said, startling myself with my outspokenness.

I had a startling vision of myself sitting at one of the desks among the girls, looking at the poster and feeling even more appalled.

It is startling to find myself in agreement with the Iron Lady, but fighting current daft Tory policies sometimes means accepting friends in unusual places.

But I've come to a startling truth about myself: I might be happier with a less ambitious partner, someone less focused on his career and curing the ills of the world and more focused on me, actually, and the piddling details of our family life.

I had heard the startling roar of the jets myself.

Shuffling to the bathroom at one point, I caught a glimpse of myself and it was startling.

As sudden and startling as my friend's abandonment seemed, I asked myself, "What part of what happened was I responsible for?" It hit me like a ton of bricks.

As someone who grew up in Beijing in the 1990s myself, the deterioration in air quality there is startling – blue skies were once the norm.

In another time, the fact that Rememory allowed me to rethink parts of myself, to dredge up and re-feel with startling clarity sensations of my life, would have been reason enough to be grateful for this film.

As I sat all by myself in the neurologist's office, he hit me with the startling truth that I might have Parkinson's disease at 37 years old.

"I found myself gasping in disbelief," wrote Lucy Lethbridge in the Literary Review, admiring the "startling new evidence" and "authoritative and prodigious" research.