Sentence examples for startling theory from inspiring English sources

The biography was compiled after 10 years of study by its authors and aired a startling theory.

In 1981, the musicologist Joshua Rifkin proposed a startling theory: that Bach's B-Minor Mass was first performed with one singer on each part, not by a hearty Lutheran chorale.

In 2006, Martin Jarvis, a Welsh-born musician who teaches at Charles Darwin University, in Australia, aired a startling theory about Johann Sebastian Bach, the undisputed arch-magus of the Western classical tradition.

By Russell Platt In 1981, the musicologist Joshua Rifkin proposed a startling theory: that Bach's B-Minor Mass was first performed with one singer on each part, not by a hearty Lutheran chorale.

Mr. Levy responded to questions from India Ink by e-mail about the book, and particularly the startling theory that underpins it: that the Indian government and military allowed the hostages to die, as part of a larger political game that was being played in Kashmir at the time.

Nobody knew why until Emerman, Malik, and Shari Kaiser, a graduate student in Emerman's lab, presented evidence for a startling theory: the evolutionary process that protects us from PtERV may be the central reason we are vulnerable to H.I.V. "We thought we must have a defense against this thing that they don't have,'' Malik told me, picking up the story the following day.

Among them is a startling conspiracy theory: that the Japanese government is deliberately spreading radioactive material from Fukushima all over Japan.

Yet, the essence of aging turns out to be so startling that the theory cannot be instantly accepted and any possible arguments are raised for its disposal.

The theory is startling, but it isn't entirely new.

He not only disliked pornography but — in what must count as a startling departure from Viennese theory and practice — was opposed to dirty jokes, believing that sexual emancipation would make them obsolete.

What for generations has looked like an accident in a paint factory now emerges as an advanced study in eccentric, midcentury color theory, with startling combinations of gray, grape, rose, turquoise and chartreuse.