Sentence examples for startling without from inspiring English sources

Yet Mr. Wen's next words were startling: Without successful political reform, "historical tragedies such as the Cultural Revolution may happen again in China," he warned.

If there's also an awful lot to it that sounds like you've heard it on other AC/DC records – a descending hook like Back in Black, a solo very reminiscent of Hell's Bells, an overall feel not unrelated to You Shook Me All Night Long – then you don't make 16 albums of startling similarity without sometimes borrowing from yourself.

Nor would Simon Cowell or Dr. House be allowed their startling meanness without the addition of heartwarming scenes that assure audiences of their likeability.

There must be some other way of letting the boy know his ride has arrived without startling everyone within earshot.

But an Apple without startling new innovations wouldn't be the Apple we've known for so long.

Both that voice and the stories Zink tells are so startling, so seemingly without antecedent, that she would seem like an outsider artist, if she did not betray so much casual erudition.

Anyone visiting Dulwich Picture Gallery's exquisite revival of her work will wonder first to last what exactly happened to Knights, whose startling career vanished without trace even during her life.

But Spirit could provide the option to pick a seat and check a bag before it charges your credit card, allowing the company to show off that low fare without startling anyone with charges.

The only thing I could do at this juncture was to step backward, one baby step at a time, without startling the subject.

The election season scare strategy that has emerged revolves around portraying the virus as the latest symptom of an America that's in startling decline and without any White House leadership able to deal with the crisis.

In the event that you absolutely cannot travel on without startling her, cr0wn her.