Sentence examples for startling surprise from inspiring English sources

Every scene plays out with a different rhythm and pops with the startling surprise of a perfect tag.

And the Edinburgh-based artist Jonathan Owen unleashes a startling surprise in the equally extraordinary Burns Monument.

But he springs a startling surprise in the last scene that adds a vivid accent to its sharp philosophical thrust.

Early reviews were fulsome in their praise, with the Hollywood Reporter describing it as a "jaw-dropping space thriller" boasting "breath-catching tension and startling surprise".

With a startling surprise.

And all 24 tracks in Kopatchinskaja's hands made a startling surprise.

The genetic information in each human being is a book of three billion characters of text written into molecules of DNA, and a book of startling surprises it is.

In some ways today's statement was a bit dull; most of the key points had been revealed in advance, and there were no startling surprises in the speech itself.

They had taken it by surprise, startling it up out of a snowbank where it was digging for roots, and it blocked their way back to the road.

Michael Landy's new show at the National Gallery is a huge surprise – startling in every respect, not least that it is happening at all.

While Jacky appears younger than, say, Iris Apfel, her hair and unabashedly line-filled face are a startling and pleasant surprise from the clothing company.