Sentence examples for startling presence from inspiring English sources

The Italian-born Paris couturier Elsa Schiaparelli really was a startling presence: provocative, passionate, subversive.

Kiami Davael, who plays his friend Shaniqua, has a fresh, startling presence.

"The response we feel towards these items is rooted in their survival and their startling presence in our time.

Indeed, this strip of Queen Street West still has a slightly seedy side, from the run-down diners selling all-day breakfasts to the somewhat startling presence of the live go-go dancer in the storefront window of Misbehav'n (No. 650), an "adult" lingerie and fetish store that seems to have a devoted clientele.

Crest erect, plump-breasted, with manicured spurs and a deliciously dissolute tangle of tail feathers, Katharina Fritsch's Hahn/Cock is a startling blue presence on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth.

Also startling is the presence of the American actress Lois Moran, as the woman who enchants Mathias in Rome.

"I hadn't heard of it, but was absolutely fascinated by its startling and haunting presence on an ordinary east London green," she says.

Obreht, who was born in Belgrade in 1985 but left at the age of 7, has recreated, with startling immediacy and presence, a conflict she herself did not experience.

For that reason alone this production, which runs through Jan . 16 is a startling and shaming presence in these United States, where the only work of theater regularly making headlines is a delay-plagued $65 million musical about a comic-book character.

From their harrowing adaptation of Harold Pinter, which began life in Leeds in 2007 – later described by the New York Times as "a startling and shaming presence in these United States" – to Minsk, 2011, their sardonic, sexualised take on life in present-day Belarus, everything BFT have done has felt provocative, powerful and unpredictable.

The most startling thing is the presence of girls.