Sentence examples for startling nature from inspiring English sources

But to me, these images dramatise the startling nature of planet Earth itself.

So the startling nature of the implosion has to be continually restated.

"It was the right word and the slightly startling nature of it was really what you needed," Mr. Sorkin said.

"The clarity and startling nature of what Molina and Rowland came up with — the notion that something you could hold in your hand could affect the entire global environment, not just the room in which you were standing — was extraordinary," Ralph Cicerone, the president of the National Academy of Sciences and a longtime colleague of Dr. Rowland, said in an interview.

That this news came not via an official statement, but a Twitter message to the pop-country artist Taylor Swift only added to the startling nature of what we were witnessing: the humbling of a major corporation by a 25-year-old woman.

During a 10-minute discussion of the programme's potential content, she moves from the Osmond family to ancient Greece, Germaine Greer's views on Justin Bieber, a walk she once took with a druid, everyday saints, the startling nature of 3D cinema, a depressing country song about a mastectomy, a neuroscientist's near-death experience, and shows me a picture of her dog, Archie, a Tibetan terrier.

The startling, highly advanced nature of these works can be judged this February when the British Museum opens its exhibition, Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind.

Neither one was after startling revelations about nature or society; they simply wanted the comfort of a familiar voice recounting a story that they hadn't quite heard before.

For instance, I have one from last February, for $19.60, from Mazar Mediterranean Restaurant, on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, California, where the falafel was dry, but the spring grass along the Southern California highway was a shade of green such as I had never seen before in nature — startling, almost lurid, like Pernod.

Mr. Weidensaul, author of a critically acclaimed study of migratory birds ("Living on the Wind," 1999), demonstrates his ability both to communicate the startling marvels of nature he has observed firsthand and to regale us with tales of scientific derring-do, plucked from the annals of natural history.

He displays a sharp eye for character and startling understanding of human nature.