Sentence examples for startling realization from inspiring English sources

It also leads him, after a few rugged weeks, to a startling realization.

Today, I woke up to the startling realization that I'm no longer a child.

He lived like this for a year or so, until one morning he awoke to a startling realization.

The US were now on course for qualification, but a startling realization occurred as they departed the field.

I've seen all three of my grown sons go through it in their own ways, coming to the same startling realization when their protective shields were pierced.

As you stare at a baguette wrapped in cellophane and contemplate your romantic failures, you come to a startling realization: you are Pret A Manger!

Things crescendo to the realization (surprising to them, startling to us) that, as per the Dire Straits, sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug.

Someone driving or doing another monotonous task may suddenly notice they weren't all there for a brief moment, a realization that's often startling, says Winter, who has not evaluated Rockefeller.

It's kind of amazing, as in part of wonder, and even startling as can be a big and kind of new realization.

But if he makes anywhere near as strong a commitment to art as he has made to self-realization, we may look forward to more intense and startling work in the future.

His realization?