Sentence examples for startling to learn from inspiring English sources

Which makes it even more startling to learn that Pusha T is a big tennis fan.

It's startling to learn that Lis Rhodes made Light Music almost 40 years ago.

So it was startling to learn that Toni Preckwinkle had become disenchanted with Barack Obama.

It looks as though he bought the mannequins from a junk dealer, and it is startling to learn that they are live models disguised as dummies.

Ms. Tipton's portrayal is so convincing it's startling to learn that she's not 17 but a sophisticated 22, and, besides being a film student, she's a Ford model.

It is startling to learn of the death of the distinguished American conductor Lorin Maazel, who died, on Sunday, at the age of eighty-four.

It's startling, then, to learn that the author, nearing the end of The Moon of Gomrath in 1962, was tempted to throw in the towel in disgust.

It is a startling discovery to learn that the fast-tracking of land planning applications is considered crucial to business formation or that getting 10,000 first-time buyers on the housing ladder is an indispensable platform for creating an educated, flexible labour force.

How startling it was to learn that AN Wilson, the most punctiliously Home Counties, southern-gentlemanly, plummy-voiced of British writers, hails from the Potteries.

It is startling (if true) to learn that the seemingly racist "Tintin in the Congo" is popular in Africa; and intriguing to speculate whether the glamorous illegitimacy of Hergé's own family history is echoed in the family crest of Tintin's friend, Captain Haddock.

And so it was startling to hear of the depth of his reaction when he said he learned many years later that Mr. Bulger had been an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for much of that time.