Sentence examples for startling reversal from inspiring English sources

The result is a startling reversal of our political common sense.

In a startling reversal of the general trend, BBC One alone saw a 36.5% audience share, its highest since 1996.

In a startling reversal, they did an about-face on the player they have coveted for years.

IN a startling reversal, some start-up media companies are making events their flagship, and then building blogs, e-books or other content around them.

As for those not so beholden, polls show that independent voters again prefer Republicans to Democrats, a startling reversal of fortune in just a few weeks.

In a startling reversal, Bertelsmann, the German media giant, agreed yesterday to acquire the assets of the languishing Napster Inc. for $8 million.

Buscemi plays an embittered political journalist forced to interview Sienna Miller's soap star, and it's a very tight, very caustic two-hander with some startling reversals.

"Borrowed Finery" often reads like an American version of a Dickens novel, replete with cruel relatives, startling reversals of fortune and traumatic abandonments and reunions.

Proust himself considered the second large part, "À l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleur," as something of a transitional section, with the adolescent Marcel himself in transit from the childhood domain of Combray to the social world of the Guermantes, and the startling reversals of perspective brought by "Sodom and Gomorrah," the watershed volume after which nothing will be quite the same.

Indeed, a somewhat startling role reversal seems to be taking place, several cable executives said.

In the weeks just before the election, the relationship between Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton further mellowed, even as she found herself in a startling role reversal with her younger rival.