Sentence examples for startling work from inspiring English sources

I have often thought back to "Shards" (1987), a bleak but startling work of his that hasn't been seen in 20 years.

Sometimes the political action is explicit, as in the smart, scathing fiction of Kiran Desai, but some of the most startling work sticks closer to the intimacy of experience.

But if he makes anywhere near as strong a commitment to art as he has made to self-realization, we may look forward to more intense and startling work in the future.

Despite creating some of his most startling work during this period, including L'Allegro and Wonderland (1989), he outraged conservative Belgian critics and was pelted by headlines that read: "Mark Morris, Go Home!" and "The Pathetic Frauds of Mark Morris".

The crane operators' union was raided by government investigators two weeks ago, although that appears to have nothing to do with the startling work the operators have done at ground zero.

Oliver Messiaen, who composed the "Quartet for the End of Time" while starving in a Nazi prison camp, closes his startling work with a solo violin—"Pared back to its essence, the melody abides, burnt pure in the crucible of the war".

Other artists are represented by single, often startling, works.

The Florentine government set up a formal competition between the creators of these startling works.

At Emmanuel Perrotin (76 Rue de Turenne, 75003), Sophie Calle's "Pour la dernière et pour la première fois" is an open forum for her always intimate and startling works.

Purposely provocative, Mr. Hirst, 48, was long controversial in his own country, known for startling works that have included rotting cows positioned to simulate copulation; sharks and sheep preserved in formaldehyde; maggots attacking a cow's head; and medicine cabinets full of hundreds of different kinds of drugs.

The work of the provocative Californian artist Paul McCarthy, the sculpture was just one of many startling works put on show during the event, which specialises in cutting-edge contemporary art.