Sentence examples for striking reading from inspiring English sources

What's striking, reading this plangent eulogy for virilitas, is how much virility nevertheless remains at the center of male culture.

To me what's most striking reading my mother's memoir is the stylish chasm between their world and ours, the pleasurable sensation that we have progressed.

In tacit witness to her educational pedigree, Ozick offers as the lead essay in this collection a striking reading of Theodore Kaczynski as "Dostoyevsky's Unabomber".

It is very striking, reading his old interviews, to see how often before his accident he used to say he'd had a charmed life.

Nobel laureate Morrison's 10th novel is an intense, striking read, though some critics found the book moved too briskly to develop and deepen her abiding themes of violence and fortitude, horror and love.

What is striking, though, reading his letter, is how non-obvious these very obvious things have become.

So it was striking to read Judge Hudson cite Comstock repeatedly in overturning part of the law.

So it is striking to read a report that's just come across the Reuters wire from Uganda, where presidential elections are to be held tomorrow.

It was especially striking to read such stories circa 2003, when I was researching the Allied occupation of Germany at National Archives II, in College Park, Maryland.

So it is striking to read China's Economic Observer — a reliably sober publication that often finds much to admire in the West — adopt the posture today of a man encountering an old friend gone completely bonkers.

But it is striking to read the Times piece a week after the passage of an immigration law in Arizona that represents a base retreat from our country's principles, and is wrapped in fear and anger.