Sentence examples for startling night from inspiring English sources

But alongside the moral disgust sat a showman's grudging respect, for in his new show Miracle, Brown stages his own laying on of hands – another startling night of Derren-do in which the nation's favourite mentalist apparently cures a woman's rheumatoid arthritis, eases a man's aching wisdom tooth and restores a bespectacled punter's 20 20 vision.

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays ended their 15-game losing streak in startling fashion last night when Randy Winn hit a two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat visiting Baltimore, 6-4.

The Mets and the Yankees were closing in on a startling deal last night that would send closer Armando Benitez, famous for his big-moment meltdowns, to the Yankees for a package of prospects, an executive with one of the teams said.

That gesture, tender and a bit awkward, is the most startling of the night.

As we emerged from a winding canyon the next afternoon, a startling sight greeted us: the entire hillside ahead was a vibrant purple, as if it had been colored by a giant magic marker.

Eventually, the engine will spring to life, with a little roar that always seems irreverent in the early morning stillness, startling a cruising cormorant nearby into an emergency takeoff, its feet pattering furiously against the water.

Neighbors who did not evacuate the area described a startling scene Sunday morning.

One evening, startling news circulated: all the officers in the division were being ordered to assemble in the huge amphitheatre at the far end of the beach.

It was startling on Saturday afternoon to find how vividly his "Brahms-Haydn Variations" reminded me of watching San Francisco Ballet some three decades ago when it brought dances from his version of "The Tempest" to the Edinburgh Festival.

In a startling talk Thursday evening, a vice president who oversees the internal engineering of Amazon's global computing system described how Amazon is building its own specialized computers, data storage systems, networking systems, even power substations and optical transmissions systems.

According to Keen, Borntreger made his startling confession Sunday morning after he contacted the sheriff's office and requested a deputy.