Sentence examples for striking turn from inspiring English sources

Indonesia owes the striking turn of fortunes in its economic performance to rather orthodox economic policies.

For all the violence of his imagery, he is equipped with a striking turn of phrase.

The poem takes a striking turn at the end, a turn that hints at the kind of hard insight Young surely has access to through his medical work.

It is a striking turn of events for members of a committee considered so elite that its subcommittee chairmen were known universally as Cardinals.

The latest striking turn in the Los Angeles Lakers' tumultuous season came when Andrew Bynum, the team's young center, was benched after a failed 3-point attempt.

An indictment would be a striking turn for Ms. Stewart, the 61-year-old founder, chairwoman and chief executive of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.

The latter figure marks a striking turn-around in Romney's fortunes: last month the Pew poll marked him behind by eight points among likely voters.

The Senate campaign over the past four months has taken striking turns.

It's been a rapid climb for an actor largely unknown to international audiences before 2012, when striking turns in Danish Oscar nominee A Royal Affair and Joe Wright's Anna Karenina marked her as one to watch; three years on, she's the one to see.

Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class (1963) is widely recognised as the greatest British history book of the 20th century, yet it is striking to turn to the index and count the number of women: just eight, in 939 pages.

"The glory days were hell," said Mr. Lythgoe, now 73, in a recent series of interviews in New York, where his career has taken a striking new turn.