Sentence examples for startling stories from inspiring English sources

Like Ms Politkovskaya, he is stronger on telling bleak, startling stories than stringing them together in a structured narrative.

Poetic, sometimes startling stories about risking death from evil men or the climate in Upper Michigan.

But some of his most outlandishly startling stories have nothing to do with drugs, and are too fantastical to be anything but true.

One of the more startling stories in The Times recently was Timothy Egan's article on the climate in Alaska, where the average temperature has risen seven degrees in the last 30 years and mosquitoes have shown up in normally frigid Barrow, the northernmost town in North America.

We never heard names but many startling stories: a parent fleeing abroad with a child, a spouse's sexual misadventures, peculiar fetishes - and all this in our conservative Midwestern city.

From Texas, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Connecticut, Lawless shows off the haunted houses he's visited throughout his work, and the slightly startling stories that make them unique.

"He told me a pretty startling story," Guillory recalls.

A decade later, the actor and playwright Stephen Beresford heard a startling story about that struggle.

In the final, possibly most startling story, "Sourland," a middle-aged widow feels the assaulting nature of grief "very like dirty water splashed into her mouth".

No evidence could be found to back up this startling story, and Jason had made the claim at the time that the police had started "sniffing around," as Stick put it.

In January 1999, a former employee of an upstate New York company that makes steel cable for the control systems of passenger jetliners and military aircraft approached federal prosecutors with a startling story.