Sentence examples for startling to hear from inspiring English sources

Even though they are Democrats, it was startling to hear them discuss the subject.

SYDNEY — With John Kelly's rural Australian drawl, it is almost startling to hear him use Chinese cooking terms.

So it is startling to hear what farmers are saying these days.

Amid today's anodyne pop, it is startling to hear a woman exhibit such rage.

It's startling to hear Foster's friends talk about how they empathise with his actions.

So it was somewhat startling to hear him decry the war on the eve of Baghdad's fall.

It was startling, too, to hear her, in her début speech to the Republican National Convention, reading a script that consistently distorted her own record.

"It is a startling thing to hear an American speak as frankly and un-self-servingly about race," Janny Scott said here last year.

Most startling was to hear straight-faced, seasoned Bayreuth fans during intermission express surprise at the sight of Wehrmacht soldiers and Nazi banners during Act II, recalling old days at the festival.

It's a startling thing to hear from Ms. Silverman, who in January created an Internet sensation with a music video in which she declared, in the starkest possible language, that she was having a torrid affair with the actor Matt Damon.

It is a startling thing to hear an American speak as frankly and un-self-servingly about race as Debra J. Dickerson does in "An American Story," her memoir of her first 35 years, in which she lurches from ghetto misfit and two-time dropout to Air Force trainee, Pentagon junior officer and Harvard Law School graduate.