Sentence examples for startling touch from inspiring English sources

Its tower at the 11th and 12th floors is a startling touch on a commercial structure.

The competition itself is engagingly surreal and there are other startling touches: the farmer promises to get his girls a camel.

To launch the 2002-03 season, the National Actors Theatre has imported the distinguished avant-garde British director Simon McBurney, who has souped up the Brechtian staging, added evocative grainy black-and-white period projections by Ruppert Bohle, and given the show some crisp and startling touches that make the whiff of Weimar even more piquant.

Mr. Adams offered all the repetitive energy that propelled Philip Glass's and Steve Reich's most popular scores, but his quicker harmonic development, sudden dynamic changes and other startling touches pointed toward the next step — emotional and dramatic — that this style needed to take.

That's the Eno touch: the startling, often hilarious eruption of blunt honesty or, just as often, offhand profundity, into the meandering byways of everyday chitchat.

This avoids a startling response when resuming touch.

Knowing but never jaded, "Hollywood Dreams" is driven by Ms. Frederick's no-boundaries commitment to her broken character, a performance that's as startling as it is touching.

Knowing but never jaded, the movie is driven by Ms. Frederick's no-boundaries commitment to her broken character, a performance that's as startling as it is touching.

'I wanted to make it clear that this sexuality is his and he's six,' says July. 'I wanted it to be unreal - because he has no idea what he's talking about - but still grounded in some physical reality that he could imagine what it felt like.' The resulting scene is startling, funny and oddly touching.

If a dolphin comes within 30 meters of a person who is already in the water, that person should "move slowly to avoid startling it, and must not touch the cetacean or move towards it".

Armel and Ramachandran [1] reported two startling somatosensory distortions in the RHI: touch was felt to a table top and touch was felt to a rubber hand outside of normal peripersonal space.