Sentence examples for startling phenomenon from inspiring English sources

Thus the "new and startling" woman camera operator advances a metaphor for the "new and startling" phenomenon of motion pictures (65).

(The same clouds are also thought to be behind the startling phenomenon of "earthquake lights", a kind of aurora sometimes seen in the air just before seismic events).

We have a chance to take this startling phenomenon of intelligence and spread it to the stars — if we don't destroy ourselves first with runaway technology.

Yet there is a startling phenomenon known throughout Asia as the "creativity problem". While East Asians are able to use science, they have not demonstrated the ability to invent radically new systems and paradigms that lead to new technologies.

What was once a startling phenomenon centered mostly in India is now spreading: In part due to mounting financial pressures, male farmers in France are 20 percent more likely to take their own lives than the rest of the population.

The evidence includes the startling phenomenon known as "unconscious reading," in which, as psychologists at Cambridge University in England have shown, a person unconsciously registers the meaning of words that are presented to him in such a way that he has no conscious awareness of having seen them at all.

Unemployment has hit migrant communities in the United States so hard that a startling new phenomenon has been detected: instead of receiving remittances from relatives in the richest country on earth, some down-and-out Mexican families are scraping together what they can to support their unemployed loved ones in the United States.

The startling extremity of this phenomenon brings to mind a marvelous notion called "landfall syndrome".

France fares better than most European countries, at 6.6 percent, but perhaps nowhere is the phenomenon more startling.

Of course this was not the best of times, and, reanimated by a deep-frozen Mars Bar the Scots had forced into the relevant hole in my balaclava, I regret I may have belittled the forthcoming celestial phenomenon with startling frankness, indeed to the ungracious extent of wishing it intimately repositioned about my person.

But the universality of the phenomenon is startling.