Sentence examples for startling selection from inspiring English sources

The most startling selection is Judah P. Benjamin, the Zelig-esque United States senator from Louisiana who became a Confederate political leader and eventually a British politician after the Civil War didn't go his way.

In "A Farewell to Alms," Gregory Clark, an economic historian at the University of California, Davis, suggests an intriguing, even startling answer: natural selection.

There is a startling omission from their selection: 9/11.

With its majestic views across Derwentwater, Borrowdale and the Western Fells, the Theatre by the Lake is the perfect place to display a selection of startling black and white photographs that charm and unsettle in equal measure.

Some of Mr. Fraenkel's selections are startling in their new context.

On the question of casting, it still can't be denied that the original selection featured a startling number of obsessives and oddballs who were surely more likely to be good on television than good in business.

Next door, at a new CD shop where green, blue and purple blinking lights surround a selection that includes a startling number of Bruce Willis films, Angel Lopez uses his computer to bootleg discs for customers.

Beyond that foray into Nelson's career numbers, the most startling observation that can be made about his play is just how ordinary his shot selection and form have been in this season's early going.

This year's Palme d'Or selection – much criticised for not including any films made by women – still managed a startling breadth of subject, quality and genre, and the jury often rewards artistic risk rather than polish.

The result was startling.

THE reversal was startling.