Sentence examples for startling words from inspiring English sources
These startling words conclude her book about the eight years she spent chasing Balkan war criminals.
T. S. Eliot, at his most provoking, suggested that Othello was doing something in this vein in his majestic final speech — "cheering himself up," in Eliot's startling words.
T. S. Eliot, at his most provoking, suggested that Othello was doing something in this vein in his majestic final speech—"cheering himself up," in Eliot's startling words.
What is surprising is how many of its usual friends have come to fear democracy itself – or perhaps to fear that a country's people, too inflamed by narrow passions, risk turning politics into a distasteful blood sport, pitting The People vs Democracy, in the startling words of one recent book title.
Perhaps most troubling is Mr. Gehry's startling words when describing it as a "theater for the car".
His recent promise to give $15 billion to the fight against AIDS prompted Bob Geldof, a campaigning Irish rock star, to tell Britain's Guardian newspaper that "You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical in a positive sense in its approach to Africa since Kennedy".Say that again?Startling words, and up to a point Mr Geldof is right.
"Disenthrall" was a startling word choice for Lincoln, who normally prided himself on the use of short words that conveyed a clear meaning.
"Shocking," "surreal" and "startling" were words she used to describe the experience of stepping into the house, one she had been intimately familiar with since childhood, and not recognizing it.
Today brought startling news.
When it comes to pinning down the most startling possible word collision, Ellroy's acrobatic pizzazz is beyond doubt.
